Hussam Kamel Payments Architect at Icon Solutions
For years, the payments industry has been on a seemingly unstoppable path toward global harmonisation, integration and alignment. The most recent poster child of this trend was the shift to the ISO 20022 messaging standard, which promised to unlock interoperability and seamless value movement across borders. That somewhat utopian vision has now co...
27 mins /payments
Viacheslav Kostin CEO at WislaCode Solutions
Digital-first banking is transforming financial services through sustainability, personalisation, and accessibility. Discover how neobanks are redefining customer expectations. The financial services landscape is experiencing a fundamental shift. Neobanks have emerged as agile, technology-driven alternatives that prioritise customer experience, ...
1 hour /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Nikunj Gundaniya Product manager at Digipay.guru
Imagine your customer walking into a pharmacy. They pick up their medicines, tap their phones at the counter, and complete payment before the queue even moves. Your customers now expect this speed in payment everywhere. A recent study by Statista shows contactless payments will cross $8 trillion in global volume by 2026, and the shift is accele...
1 hour /retail /inclusion
Jonty Rawlins Director of Sustainability at Platcorp Group
Around the globe, countries are driving forward their own Electric Vehicle (EV) revolutions. Regions such as the UK, for instance, aim for 80% of new vehicles sold to be zero-emission by 2030. However, while the rest of the world is accelerating towards an EV future, Africa is facing a complex set of hurdles, including knowledge gaps, import dutie...
1 hour /sustainable
Shushant Sudarshan Executive at Appinventiv
Living with AI: How Artificial Intelligence Is Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Modern Life Let’s be real for a second—AI isn’t some far-off sci-fi fantasy anymore. It’s not all about robots that look like humans or killer machines plotting to take over. That’s Hollywood stuff. What’s actually happening is way more subtle—and honestly, way more inte...
1 hour
Sakshi Negi Content Straitegist
The B2B sales environment has evolved dramatically. Success now depends on your ability to create coordinated, personalized interactions across multiple channels, not just firing off generic emails and hoping for responses. Modern sales engagement platforms have emerged as essential tools that enable teams to automate mundane workflows, deliver ...
3 hours /markets
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
Why private digital dollars thrive where traditional currency and CBDCs still fall short. Do Stablecoins Serve a Purpose? The Answer Is Yes — but It Depends on the Context In financial debates, stablecoins often attract a deceptively simple question: “Do they really serve a purpose? And if they do, why can’t ordinary currency — or a state-issued di...
6 hours /payments /crypto
Steve Round Co-Founder and President at SaaScada
From an ongoing struggle to deliver AI ROI to regulations forcing banks to improve hit their ESG goals, 2026 is going to be a truly transformative year as the UK banking ecosystem grapples with major challenges. FS firms will struggle to move past superficial AI in 2026, hamstrung by legacy tech and a lack of ambition In 2026, the financial serv...
20 hours /predictions
Steven Hatton Co-founder, Director at Authentiq8 Me
Business leaders face a paradox: every extra security measure can slow down the very experience customers expect to be instant. Passwordless authentication resolves that tension. Removing shared secrets and binding identity to verified devices delivers stronger protection and smoother engagement simultaneously. From a boardroom perspective, this sh...
21 hours
Cliff Bunting Director at PurplePatch Broking Ltd
Lenders are examining their credit data costs with more scrutiny than at any point in the past decade. After years of routine renewals and inherited terms, many organisations are now finding large differences in what they pay compared with similar institutions. In some cases, the variance reaches several million pounds over a single contract term....
23 hours /regulation /retail Banking
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