Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
How the world’s financial backbone is reinventing itself for instant, interoperable, and digitally-driven payments. SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) is not resting on its laurels as the traditional backbone of global finance. Its future role is defined by adapting to the market's demand for instant, transparent,...
22 November 2025 /payments
How Real-Time Payments and Embedded Finance are quietly rewiring banking, customer experience, and the economics of financial services. Real-Time Payments and Embedded Finance: The Twin Engines Reshaping Modern Banking For decades, payments moved at the speed of the banking system—slowly. Settlement cycles spanned days, batch processing ruled the b...
22 November 2025 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Alastair Gill Principal Data Scientist at GFT
In this series of articles, we are looking at ways to try and ensure that AI projects result in business value. So far, we have focused on identifying the business problem and working closely with stakeholders across the business to ensure that our understanding is correct and that any proposed solution properly addresses the needs of the business....
21 November 2025 /ai /cloud Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
British fintechs such as Revolut and Starling are redefining global expansion and are considering buying chartered US banks to secure immediate access to a US banking licence and an existing operational base. It’s a strategic shortcut that accelerates entry into a larger market and helps attract new customers, which are both increasingly difficult...
21 November 2025 /ai /markets Fintech
Paul Weathersby Chief Product Officer, Identity & Fraud at Experian
The festive season is traditionally one of the busiest periods of the year, but for UK businesses it has become one of the most challenging for managing fraud. New Experian research indicates that fraudulent activity continues to rise ahead of and during the festive months, as criminals look to take advantage of increased spending, faster decision...
21 November 2025
How forward-thinking organisations are moving from traditional business continuity planning to a broader, adaptive model of business resilience. For decades, organisations have invested in Business Continuity (BC) as a safeguard against disruptions—cyberattacks, system failures, fires, floods, outages, or human error. BC plans provide playbooks: wh...
21 November 2025 /security /regulation
Viacheslav Kostin CEO at WislaCode Solutions
Legacy banking infrastructure doesn't have to slow your innovation. Discover how incremental modernisation delivers speed without compromising stability. Most financial institutions face the same challenge. Legacy core systems create delivery bottlenecks that frustrate product teams and disappoint customers. The instinct to replace everything at o...
21 November 2025 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
John Reese Business Analyst | Platform Growth Expert at Hashcodex
Last week, one entrepreneur told me something funny. He said, “I built a grid trading bot, but the bot is doing its own comedy show.” I laughed, but he was serious. His bot was buying at the wrong time, selling at the wrong time, and the market was just playing games with him. At that moment, I understood one thing. A bot is like a small machine wi...
21 November 2025 /startups /crypto Fintech
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Qualified Trust Service Providers have lived in a narrow corner of the market: qualified signatures, seals, timestamps and eDelivery. Important, yes — but now more can be done. With EBW (x-EUBW), EUDIW, DPPs, DIIP formats and the rise of agentic AI, QTSPs can find themselves in the right place at the right time. They can become the backbone of Euro...
21 November 2025 /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services
Paul Clarke Chief Growth Officer at Cashflows
Cancellations and no-shows are a quiet crisis in UK dentistry. According to our research, across the country, practice managers report that missed appointments and last-minute cancellations are their single biggest operational headache. They do not just drain revenue. They waste valuable time that could have been spent treating patients who need
20 November 2025 /payments /markets
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