Gary Munro Vice President Payments Consulting at Consult Hyperion, Consulting by Fime
We all love the convenience of ’Tap to Pay’. It’s fast, intuitive, and is widely accepted as part of everyday life. But behind that simple tap is a surprisingly complex ecosystem that’s starting to show its age. One of the key challenges with the infrastructure supporting contactless payments, is that it’s far more fragmented than it should be. Tod...
2 hours /payments
Uwakmfon Offiong CEO at Finclu Systems
Microfinance has always been about opening doors for people excluded from formal banking. Today, digital finance is transforming how that mission is delivered. In my recent publication “FinTech as a digital innovation in microfinance companies – systematic literature review” I examined how technology is reshaping microfinance and what this means f...
11 hours /inclusion Fintech
Paul Quickenden Chief Commercial Officer at Easy Crypto
The world is entering its ‘crypto era’. The headlines say it, the wallets prove it and the inflow in capital is speeding up (hello spot Bitcoin ETFs). Yet adoption hasn’t even hit full stride yet. Look at Australia for example: crypto adoption hovers around the 20% mark and dived 3% due to concerns around crypto regulation (41%). Ceilings like
12 hours /regulation /crypto
Raktim Singh Senior Industry Principal at Infosys
Discover how autonomous finance and embedded AI are reshaping banking, from lending to risk management, with seamless, real-time experiences. Introduction In the rapidly changing financial landscape of 2025, two interconnected trends are gaining real traction: autonomous finance and embedded AI. Each independently marks a significant shift. Togethe...
16 hours /ai /retail
Krik Gunning Co-founder & CEO at Fourthline
The greatest threat to our online security, be it digital fraud, human trafficking or otherwise, is the failure of human defence systems. Does technology make our lives easier? Absolutely, yes. But will it alter the mindset of an employee that may be misguided to trust a deepfake of their boss or click a spam link (imitating a legitimate hyperlink...
21 hours /payments /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Daniel Schlaepfer CEO at Select Vantage Inc
For years, southern Europe’s markets were dismissed as risky, stagnant, or peripheral. Investors crowded into Germany’s DAX or France’s CAC, while the Athens, Milan, and Madrid exchanges languished on the margins. But that story is quickly changing. This year, the stock indices of Greece, Italy, and Spain have surged ahead of their northern peers, ...
17 September 2025 /inclusion /markets
Sharon Tan Head of Marketing - APJ at Oracle Financial Services
In this 2-part series covering the new rules of B2B marketing in an AI-first world, we see how AI can really move the needle where businesses can see revenue growth, customer retention and increased productivity. In Part 1, we expanded on the value of contextual AI, and observed how combining your unique first party data to your AI models via API ...
17 September 2025 /ai /predictions Marketing in Financial Services
Reilly Breaux Head of North America at Capex AI
Since 2022, the conversation around AI in consumer banking has hardly moved past simple chatbots and fraud detection. The "next frontier" is supposedly a system capable of conducting nuanced, secure and context-aware dialogues about a customer's entire financial life. We've spoke about this for years, but where is it? With current model ...
17 September 2025 /ai Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
With wars, pandemics, and political upheavals reshaping global finance, traditional models fall short. NEAT offers resilience in a world where adaptation is the only survival strategy A World Where Old Models Don’t Work. In a world of active war zones, rising geopolitical tensions, the memory of the recent pandemic, and widespread political disrupt...
16 September 2025 /ai /wholesale
David Gallihawk Chief Product Officer & GM, Business Information at Experian UK&I
The UK’s business ecosystem is once again at a crossroads. After a strong start to 2025, economic momentum has slowed. Inflation rose to 3.6% in June, GDP contracted for a second consecutive month, and business confidence remains subdued ahead of the Autumn Budget. SMEs are feeling the pressure, from tax adjustments to global trade disruptions, bu...
16 September 2025 /startups
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