Naina Rajgopalan Content Head at Freo
Managing payments is crucial to any business, but it often presents challenges. From reconciling transactions to meeting compliance expectations, businesses need efficient solutions. Dedicated business IBANs provide a streamlined approach to handling SEPA and SWIFT collections, platform payouts, and safeguarding funds. As we look ahead to trends li...
1 hour /inclusion
Muhammad Qasim Senior Software Developer at PSPC
Pakistan is taking a big leap toward a fully digital economy — and at the center of this transformation stands Raast, the instant payment system launched by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). What started as a modern way to send and receive money quickly has grown into a powerful tool that’s reshaping how citizens, businesses, and government instit...
3 hours
💡 What Is Forex Trading? Forex (short for foreign exchange) is the global marketplace where currencies are traded — like USD, EUR, GBP, PKR, and others. You make money by buying one currency and selling another based on price changes. Example: If you think the US dollar will rise against the Pakistani rupee, you buy USD/PKR. If the dollar goes up,...
David Maimon Head of Fraud Insights at SentiLink
Over the last several months, my team’s research into online fraud ecosystems has revealed just how far criminals are willing to go to outpace financial institutions. On Telegram, sellers advertise “fullz” — complete identity kits including Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, and even school transcripts. On Facebook, fraudsters openly prom...
11 hours /regulation /crime
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Already 2 years ago, I explored in my blog "The UPI Phenomenon: From Zero to 10 Billion" (https://bankloch.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-upi-phenomenon-from-zero-to-10.html) how India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) reshaped the digital payments landscape. UPI has grown into one of the world’s largest digital payment systems, processing o
12 hours /payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Brandon Spear CEO at TreviPay
Finance leaders have always shouldered the responsibility of managing cash flow, reducing risk and keeping customer relationships intact. But in recent years, the pace of change in B2B payments has accelerated as buyer expectations evolve and new technology reshapes how companies transact. What was once a back-office function is becoming a strate
15 hours /payments /predictions Frictionless Payments
George Davis CEO at Fuse
Moving money into MENA has traditionally been slow, opaque and expensive. Cross border payments often involve multiple intermediaries, high fees and long settlement times. For international companies, this creates friction when collecting and sending local payments at scale. Virtual IBANs (VIBANs) offer a modern way to navigate this complexity. B
20 hours /payments /markets 5G Payments Schemes and Strategies 2020 - 2035
Mikko Andersson CEO at Scila
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave describes a group of people who spent their entire lives in a dark cave, able only to see shadows of the world outside cast upon the walls. These fleeting images formed their entire reality, a dim and incomplete reflection. If one person were to step out of the cave, they would initially be blinded by the sunlight bu
22 hours /regulation /markets
Anush Sachsuvarova Project Manager at Baseella Ltd
For the past decade, the fintech revolution has largely been understood through the lens of sleek mobile interfaces, frictionless payment apps, and UX-driven challenger banks. But beneath the surface, a deeper transformation has been underway. A transformation that doesn’t grab headlines or dominate marketing pages, but is fundamentally reshaping ...
06 October 2025 Fintech
Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI
As the financial services industry is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by the exponential growth of data and the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI), forward-thinking institutions are leveraging these assets to revolutionize everything from customer experience and risk management to fraud detection and investment strategies. Th
05 October 2025 /ai Big Data
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