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The number of bank branches in Ukraine and Europe is rapidly decreasing, so from 2008 to 2022, the number of branches in the EU decreased by 39%, from 225 thousand to 134 thousand, while in Ukraine du...
Blockchain use cases abounded in 2022, but we’ve only scratched the surface of what this transformative technology can help achieve. What’s coming down the track in 2023 for the interplay between dist...
A few years since Open Banking took off in Bahrain, the local community is yet to witness a plethora of use cases built on top of Open Banking capabilities. Bahrain has been leading the financial serv...
One of the leading countries currently setting the bar in the developing fintech business in the Arab region is the United Arab Emirates. According to studies, UAE accounted for 47% of all financial t...
The ripples from Amazon’s announcement that it was entering the UK insurance market with its own aggregator are still gently washing over the industry. I say ripples, because it was not quite the sho...
What do Wise, Curve, Qover, Monese and Capilever have in common? Besides being Fintechs active in the financial services sector you will probably say not that much, but when you look at their recent p...
Rates of fraud have continued to soar in the latest 3-year period studied by the UK’s Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), and neo-banks account for the bulk of increases. This has confused industry obs...
The banking industry and its technology invariably amaze us with every invention. Not only is it rapidly changing, but it is bringing up the change that we need to upgrade our economic lifestyles. The...
This is seriously fascinating in the business case sense. I do not think any country in recent history has faced such a rapid change in the way its fintech and banking system operate. Global sanctions...
I had thought that my stories would advance in chronological order - but notice that so many rungs and rail composites from the early e-ladders are important in the next ones - that I keep moving back...
As domestic payment fees 'go towards zero', how will PSP make any monies from the payments business, especially if the PSP is a non-bank1 and is OpenBanking an opportunity or challenge to PSPs? Taking...
The iGaming industry continues to grow more and more. Why do we think like that? Because the iGaming industry has experienced rapid growth in its total worth over the past two years. In 2020, the glob...