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
23 November 2025 /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
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
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