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Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

How voice technology and emotional AI shape the future of financial services

Financial services are undergoing a transformation as voice technology and emotional AI become more deeply integrated into digital banking and payments. These innovations are not just about convenience—they are fundamentally changing how institutions interact with customers, streamline operations, and create more human-centric experiences. As fint...

Dave Glaser

Dave Glaser CEO at Dwolla

Why Payment Speed Alone Won't Win the Real-Time Race

The payments industry has become obsessed with speed. Headlines trumpet the arrival of instant payments, real-time rails, and millisecond processing times as if velocity were the sole measure of progress. Yet this singular focus on speed misses a fundamental truth: enterprises don't just want faster payments—they want smarter, more reliable, and ...

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Kseniya Shemets

Kseniya Shemets Software Developer at https://finage.co.uk

From Bloomberg Terminals to Open APIs: How Developers are Rebuilding Access to Stock Market Data

In the past, access to live stock market data was the domain of institutional players. Bloomberg terminals, costing thousands per month, dominated trading desks and financial institutions. Retail investors, developers, and early-stage startups had limited options — both in terms of pricing and flexibility. But over the past decade, a quiet trans...

/markets API

John Reese

John Reese Business Analyst | Platform Growth Expert at Hashcodex

What Features Do Investors Expect in a Crypto Exchange MVP?

Planning to build a crypto exchange? Great idea. But before you launch, there’s one thing you need to get right: your MVP. An MVP is your first version. It should be simple, but strong. It’s the version you’ll show to investors, and it needs to work well enough to prove your idea is real. If you miss the mark, you lose trust. But if you get it ri...

/startups /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights

Shawn Conahan

Shawn Conahan Chief Revenue Officer at Wildfire Systems, Inc.

Marketing: The Most Critical Component of Your Loyalty Rewards Program

The top reason why companies don't achieve significant user adoption of a loyalty rewards program is due to a simple lack of marketing. In general, large banks and corporations are really great at cross-selling "core" banking and finance products, but not so great at conveying the benefits of a rewards program. This is almost certainly ...

/retail Fintech

Mark Jackson

Mark Jackson Managing Director - Product & Capabilities at Valuedynamx - a Collinson Company

Rethinking banking loyalty: Why behavioural rewards are gaining ground

Whether it’s acquisition or retention, loyalty is becoming harder to pin down in banking. In the U.S., inertia still defines how most people interact with their banks. The average adult keeps the same checking account for nearly 17 years, with many citing the only reason they haven’t switched because “it’s the account they’ve always had.” This

/payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

Wise and Revolut - The Business Beyond Affordable Money Transfers

The global fintech transformation has served as the biggest catalyst for seamless money transfers, payments, and other types of transactions. Wise and Revolut have emerged as two of the most active drivers of the global fintech market. However, low-cost money transfers are not the end of the story, as these businesses expand and transform from st...

Chandresh Pande

Chandresh Pande Consultant at TCS

Agentic AI in FX: From Automation to Autonomy

Abstract Imagine a super-smart FX trader on your desk—one who continuously scans global markets, detects macroeconomic shifts, adapts execution strategies in real time, learns from fluctuations, manages risk independently, and spots arbitrage before others even notice. Now picture a back-office specialist who predicts settlement failures, flags re...

/ai /markets

Ankita Bhattacharya

Ankita Bhattacharya Product Manager - Commercial Finance at LoanTube

Why business loan brokers are saying yes to less!

When an SME applies for a £10,000 working capital loan, it often finds itself at the bottom of a broker’s priority list. For years, traditional commercial finance brokers have largely avoided small ticket business loans. The reason is simple: the return on a £10,000 loan rarely justifies the time and manual effort required to package and place it....

/startups /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services

Milko Filipov

Milko Filipov Senior Manager at valantic

Accepting Stablecoin and Crypto Payments: What Merchants Must Know About Settlement

As stablecoins and cryptocurrencies become increasingly integrated into corporate payment ecosystems, treasurers in large organizations face critical decisions around settlement options. How payments are settled—that is, the currency in which funds are ultimately received—has profound implications for liquidity management, risk exposure, and treas...

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