Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa
What makes the Danish TV series Black Swan (not to be confused with Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s influential 2007 book, or the 2010 dark horror starring Natalie Portman) so relevant to our world, when money laundering constantly ruins lives, business and freedom? Currently airing on BBC 4, originally TV 2 Danmark in 2024-25, Black Swan, based on real...
32 mins /regulation /crime Exposing Financial Crime
Ken Wan Senior Solutions Architect at SAS
What is FRAML? FRAML (Fraud and Anti-Money Laundering) is an integrated strategy combining fraud prevention and AML compliance efforts to combat financial crime holistically. It breaks down silos between fraud and AML teams, leveraging shared data, technologies, and processes. To be short, it is a unified approach to bring fraud and AML togeth
17 hours
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) explained: the payment-vs-payment engine that removed trillion-dollar FX settlement risk, how it works day-to-day, the challenges it still faces (T+1, non-CLS currencies) — and the realistic paths forward as money digitizes. What is CLS — the problem it was created to solve Foreign-exchange transactions are, a...
21 hours /payments /regulation
Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI
In a recent LinkedIn poll, the question was simple: "Let's be honest. Why aren't you hiring external AI experts?" The results were telling, and perhaps a little disheartening for those of us in the AI space. While a quarter of respondents admitted they do hire AI experts, the majority offered concerning reasons for their hesitation. Th
22 hours /ai /security Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
We have long been arguing that there is a risk that massive effort to supply all willing Europeans with identity building wallets will be a failure – unless there is a critical mass of verifiable credentials available. Identification and drivers licenses are not enough. All sorts are needed and the getting the seldom needed ones harmonised are esp...
23 November 2025 /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services
Sam Boboev Founder at Fintech Wrap Up
Hey fintech friends, ever feel like the future is sneaking up on you? This morning, I imagined myself asking an AI assistant to “just buy my usual coffee beans,” and it actually tried to do it. No app, no website, just a chat and a confirmed order. This really could be the future, or I would say even the near future. Agentic commerce, where AI ag...
23 November 2025 /ai /payments
Prasoon Mukherjee Director | Head of Securities Services | GSC-India at Societe Generale Bank
In a world captivated by numbers, only a few other figures may command as much reverence as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Governments parade it, media drum-beat it, citizens drink it in like a badge of national pride. A single percentage point change can sway markets, shake cabinets, or shape electoral narratives. Yet ask a fundamental questio...
23 November 2025 /people /sustainable Financial Inclusion
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
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