Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank
We often speak about careers as if they are linear things. like railway tracks stretching predictably into the horizon. But anyone who has lived long enough in corporate corridors knows this is an illusion. Careers don’t run on tracks. They run on foundations and direction. Platform vs Purpose: The Two Dimensions PLATFORM - Is the ground beneath o...
3 mins /people /inclusion High performing teams
Muhammad Qasim Senior Software Developer at PSPC
Major financial institutions are beginning to integrate blockchain into real-world payment systems. Visa recently expanded its use of digital currencies for cross-border settlements, supporting faster transfers using public blockchain networks. JPMorgan is already moving more than $2 billion in daily value through its internal blockchain platform,...
17 hours /inclusion /crypto
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
As fintechs race to deploy AI for personalization, credit decisions, fraud detection, and automation, success hinges on embedding robust governance, privacy safeguards, and explainability into the product lifecycle — not after the fact. 1. Why AI is both an opportunity and a liability for fintechs AI is now central to many fintech value proposition...
17 hours /ai /regulation Fintech
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...
20 hours /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, ...
21 hours /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...
21 hours /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...
21 hours /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...
21 hours
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...
28 November 2025 /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...
27 November 2025 /predictions
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