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Srinathprasanna Neelagiri Chettiyar Shanmugam

Srinathprasanna Neelagiri Chettiyar Shanmugam Manager - Banking and Financial Services at Aspire Systems

Beyond the AI Demo: Unpacking the Hidden Costs and Human Toll

TL;DR: Everyone claims AI is revolutionizing productivity but most people I talk to aren’t seeing it. This piece is a grounded take on the gap between AI hype and real-world results. There are gains in narrow tasks and for junior staff, but the impact is uneven. Often overstated and rarely transformational these are. In this article, I explore wha...

/ai /predictions Artificial Intelligence

Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

Bitcoin’s institutional glow-up could trigger the next big rally

Remember when Bitcoin was the scrappy outsider of finance, a rebellious bet for techies, libertarians, and Reddit traders? Well, times have changed. These days, Bitcoin is cleaning up nicely - getting scooped up by big corporations, rebranded by Wall Street, and even tossed around in political punch-ups. This isn’t just a glow-up. It’s a full-blow...

/markets

Mikko Anderssen

Mikko Anderssen CEO at Scila

From fragmentation to foundation: Why real-time risk needs a unified harmonised train

Picture your firm’s risk management like a high-speed train racing through a complex network of tracks. Every twist and turn represents shifting market conditions, and evolving asset classes. Indeed, the whole network of tracks is constantly shifting with new lines being added through regulatory demands. For the journey to be smooth and safe, ever...

/regulation /markets Financial Risk Management

Farnam Rami

Farnam Rami Founder at DevPay Turkey

Designing for the Next Decade: A Founder’s View on Building Digital Finance Beyond Borders

As a founder working at the intersection of regulation, design, and financial access, I’ve come to believe that the future of digital finance won’t be defined by how fast we build — but by how deeply we prepare. Emerging markets like Türkiye, and complex regions such as Iran, are not just adoption zones for global fintech trends — they are pressure...

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Farnam Rami

Farnam Rami Founder at DevPay Turkey

Anticipating Financial Futures: Infrastructure, Innovation, and Inclusion in Türkiye’s Fintech Lands

In the face of rapid technological evolution, Türkiye stands at a unique inflection point in redefining financial inclusion and infrastructure resilience. As traditional banking systems continue to show signs of fragmentation, inefficiency, and inaccessibility—particularly for underserved populations—emerging digital platforms are stepping in to c...

/startups

Jurijs Bordulans

Jurijs Bordulans Co-founder at Uspex

How to Increase Transaction Success Rates for Online Merchants

In online commerce, every successful transaction counts. When a payment fails—due to fraud checks, technical issues, or user error—it can result in lost revenue and a frustrated customer who may not return. For merchants, improving transaction success rates isn’t just about fixing errors behind the scenes; it’s about creating a smooth, reliable ex...

/payments /markets Fintech

Alexander Morsakov

Alexander Morsakov Head of Business Development at FinOn Payment Solutions

Moving 3D Secure ACS In-House: A Growing Trend Among BaaS Providers

Most BaaS platforms start out by outsourcing their 3D Secure Access Control Server (ACS) — and for a while, it works. But then the friction starts: integration bottlenecks, slow updates, black-box risk models, and rising per-transaction fees. We’ve seen this pattern across the industry. At FinOn, where we work closely with fintechs and payment inst...

/payments Fintech

Jacob Bennett

Jacob Bennett Co-Founder at Crux Analytics

In a Volatile Economy, Small Businesses Need Advisors - Not Just Bookkeepers

From 2016 to 2023, I ran a boutique innovation consultancy based in Brooklyn. As a former small business owner, I saw firsthand the daily challenges, but the thing that always stood out was how slow, reactive banking support added pressure instead of relieving it. When cash flow tightened or large expenses that preceded a project hit, my bank rema...

/retail Business

Daniel Schlaepfer

Daniel Schlaepfer CEO at Select Vantage Inc

The Jane Street India Scandal Is a Wake-Up Call – No Matter the Outcome

It’s not every day that a regulator as methodical and reserved as India’s SEBI accuses one of the world’s largest trading firms of a “sinister scheme.” But that’s what happened last week when Jane Street—one of the “new titans of Wall Street”—was banned from India’s markets over allegations of manipulating prices in one of the fastest-growing deri...

/regulation /markets

David Clee

David Clee Co-Founder & CEO at MirrorWeb

Native Capture: Why It’s Non-Negotiable for Modern Compliance Teams

Have you ever tried reading an iMessage thread exported into an email? It’s like viewing your Instagram feed through an A4 binder. Welcome to the reality many compliance teams face today: digital conversations that look nothing like the originals, stripped of context and flattened into disorienting formats. That’s a problem, as regulatory reviews r...

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