Eric Benz Chief Executive Officer at Vaultz Capital PLC
When Tesla first announced its $1.5 billion Bitcoin purchase in February 2021, it sparked a corporate revolution. Corporate Bitcoin adoption reached a milestone this year in September when publicly listed firms accumulated over 1 million BTC representing approximately $110 billion in value, data from BTC Treasuries revealed. This threshold reflect...
4 hours
Maxim Neshcheret Regional Manager at CMA Small Systems AB
For decades cross-border payments have been slow, expensive, and complicated relying heavily on a patchwork of correspondent banking relationships and a few dominant currencies, especially the U.S. dollar. But now that is starting to change. Driven by shifting geopolitical dynamics, regulatory alignment, and the rise of shared standards like ISO 20...
5 hours /payments /predictions
Rom C Founder at Questa AI
I've been watching how artificial intelligence is changing things, especially in areas like healthcare and finance. It’s not just about futuristic tech anymore; it’s here, and it’s making a real difference. Both fields deal with tons of data and important decisions, and AI is helping make sense of it all, speeding things up, and making them more a...
6 hours /ai /security Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Retired Member
In the world of identity verification, few terms are as widely used and as broadly interpreted as “digital ID.” For some, it’s a secure login system for government services. For others, it’s a digital twin of a physical ID card stored on a smartphone or smartwatch. Regardless of the interpretation, one fact is undeniable: digital IDs represent the...
9 hours /security /predictions
Akshar Prabhu Desai Payments engineer
All opinions are personal and should not be attributed to my employer. Agentic commerce is a technology where autonomous agents make purchase decisions for the user. One important part of purchase is payments. Payments today happen either through credit or debit cards or bank accounts. In all these, the banks are involved and have to ultimat
13 hours /ai /crypto
Dr Ritesh Jain Advisor at WorldBank
For decades, the plumbing of global finance has relied on a patchwork of protocols, proprietary formats, and manual reconciliation. Each payment, no matter how digital it appeared, was in fact a chain of messages stitched together across time zones and intermediaries. Today, that world stands at a threshold. A new data standard—ISO 20022—is becomi...
20 hours /payments /predictions Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Carlos Kazuo Missao Global Head of Innovation Solutions at GFT
When the GENIUS Act passed in the U.S. earlier this year, financial institutions for the first time had an actual framework – aligned with global standards like Europe’s MiCA – for stablecoin usage across the country. With the floodgates now open for stablecoin adoption, the industry went down a rabbit hole, discussing the benefits and drawbacks o...
04 November 2025 /payments
Kuldeep Shrimali Consulting Partner at Tata Consultancy Services
Abstract It is a common misconception to assess the cryptocurrency sector solely by its price movements and fixed supply features. While media coverage tends to fixate on market prices, the most noteworthy progress in the crypto space today centres around the use of blockchains and smart contracts for payments and financial services. In this conte...
04 November 2025 /wealth /crypto Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Jeremy Takle Founder and CEO at Pennyworth
Banks have spent decades digitising their services, but the next revolution isn’t about convenience or access, it’s about intelligence. AI-native finance is reshaping the very architecture of banking, forcing institutions to rethink how they use data, how they deliver value, and how they engage customers. The next winners won’t just adopt AI. They...
04 November 2025 /ai /retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Anton Roe CEO at MHR
The modern finance function is under intense pressure as costs are on the rise and anxieties about sustaining performance and productivity loom large. The need for agility across a company can often come into conflict with the financial need for stability. This is especially given finance professionals value certainty more than anything else, ratin...
04 November 2025 /ai /people High performing teams
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