David King CTO at Flywire
At our recent Flywire Fusion event, we held a breakout session on Cybersecurity in Higher Education. The original focus of the session was around how to address cybersecurity threats facing higher ed, including data breaches and the growing phishing attacks on both students and institutions to trick them into changing banking details that could l...
2 hours /security /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
I was very impressed by the German estimate that large and medium sized enterprises will save 84,7bn€/year - only in master data work - by taking EUBWs in use. https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/27963/in-germany-847-billion-euros-is-a-lot-of-money And this more easily taken in use by using DIIP. https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/29252/diip-h...
2 hours /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services
Mark Whale Partner at FICO
CROs are taking on broader roles, covering risks for which it’s extremely rare to have the full breadth of expertise. Mark Whale from global analytics software leader FICO discusses how a host of new risk categories are making the CRO’s role tougher than ever, and spurring the rise of the Super CRO. The role of the Chief Risk Officer at a bank is ...
5 hours /security
Andrew Bonsall COO at AperiData
Key takeaways UK SME lending has fallen 20% in real terms over the past decade, leaving a £22bn funding gap. Traditional credit data and manual processes keep viable firms locked out of finance. Open Banking gives lenders real-time visibility of SME cashflow and affordability. Consistent, complete and current data supports faster, fairer lendi...
7 hours
Teo Blidarus CEO and Co-Founder at FintechOS
Stablecoins are moving fast, banks aren’t. As industry, business and consumer understanding deepens, token-based rails are starting to challenge mainstream infrastructure. The pressure to react and integrate is real. Put simply: token-based money moves on new rails built outside the current banking infrastructure. They transfer value quickly and sp...
10 hours /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
Banks are eager to modernise with AI and other new technologies, but outdated legacy systems and technical debt are holding them back. These issues make operations fragile, increase the risk of errors, and can massively hinder digital transformation efforts. To stay competitive and meet customer expectations, banks need to extract valuable data fro...
10 hours /ai
Milko Filipov Senior Manager at valantic
In my previous article, I discussed how the payments ecosystem—characterized by its high volumes, real-time processing, and rich contextual data—is naturally suited for AI. These qualities make it possible to build smarter, faster, and more reliable processes. Building on that foundation, we’re now witnessing a new era in e-commerce, defined by th...
11 hours /ai /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Parv Bagga Inside Sales Specialist at Legitquest
In an era where businesses are expanding faster than regulations can keep up, compliance teams face a constant challenge staying ahead of risk. From complex regulatory frameworks to cross-border transactions and third-party dependencies, identifying potential risks early has become both critical and increasingly difficult. The traditional complianc...
15 hours
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
Speculation, sentiment, and the search for intrinsic worth in an AI-driven market. Introduction: The New Gold Rush The surge in artificial intelligence (AI) company valuations has captured the financial world’s imagination. From chipmakers and model developers to data infrastructure startups, the market seems to be rewarding anything branded with “...
16 hours /ai /predictions Innovation in Financial Services
Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn
Last quarter, a fintech company approached us to rescue a failing project. They'd hired a vendor to build an expense management platform with payment integrations in two months — an aggressive timeline that should have raised red flags. Ten months later, they had nothing in production, a budget that had tripled, and a vendor relationship that had ...
23 hours /payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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