Rohit Mishra Director, Product at Shopify
Global commerce is no longer the reserve of enterprise businesses. Today’s businesses – whether digitally native or omnichannel – are increasingly expanding into new regions, and in 2024 alone they tapped into the £873 billion in UK exports of goods and services. Driven by rising demand, faster fulfilment capabilities and consumer expectations, gl...
14 hours /ai /payments E-commerce
Leon Fischer-Brocks Co-Founder | CEO at Bloxley
My name is Leon Fischer-Brocks. I’m co-founder and CEO of Bloxley, a digital finance app gearing towards launch. At 24, I’m at the start of my journey, young enough to challenge conventions, but with experience enough to know that execution is everything. Like many in this space, I am at the crossroads of vision and reality, staring down the exhi
15 hours /retail /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Ben O'Brien Managing Director at Jaywing
In our previous post on CP10/25, we examined how expectations around climate risk are becoming more specific and embedded. This follow-up focuses on the details, breaking down the proposals in the draft Supervisory Statement and what they mean for firms assessing their current position. Each area highlighted below reflects the level of depth and i...
16 hours /regulation
Priyanka Rao Content Strategist at Jupiter Money
The past few months of 2025 have been a wild ride for cryptocurrency investors. The year began in full swing, with Bitcoin and Solana hitting new all-time highs ($109,000 and $298.85, respectively) as early as January 2025. And the surprises didn't stop there. Ripple's XRP, a longstanding cryptocurrency designed to facilitate fast, secure, and lo...
17 hours /crypto /markets
Andrew Abraham Global Managing Director of Data Quality at Experian
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend this year’s Gartner Data & Analytics Summit where global data leaders came together to explore how organisations are navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape. One theme echoed across every session: as data ecosystems continue to evolve, the need for trusted, well-governed, high-quality dat...
18 hours
Paul Quickenden Chief Commercial Officer at Easy Crypto
Let me tell you a story… Fifteen years ago, a guy bought two pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoin. At the time, Bitcoin was only worth a few cents and crypto was still regarded as an experiment. Today, those pizzas are worth over US$1 billion. The story has become folklore in industry (touted as ‘Bitcoin pizza day’) and a symbol of just how volatile and unpr...
21 May 2025 /inclusion /crypto
Alex Rees Web Strategy at Facctum
Regulatory compliance has traditionally been a slow-moving function—reactive, rules-based, and tethered to manual review cycles. But the pace of modern finance demands a fundamental rethinking. As financial crime becomes more sophisticated and real-time transactions dominate, the compliance function must operate at the speed of risk. Legacy compli...
21 May 2025 /regulation /crime RegTech
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
I once argued that Banks Will Never Catch Up With The Frictionless UX Of Fintechs. Since then, I've seen some improvements in the user experience of banking apps. My go-to Payment app now has a four digit PIN (down from six digits) Stock trading app keeps me logged in the whole day (instead of logging me out after five minutes of inactivity) Netb...
21 May 2025 /payments /retail
Slava Mehovich Founder at AKDev Group
When companies expand into global markets, they face not only an influx of customers and revenue growth, but also limitations of rapid growth. The burden on the company increases, and processes can begin to break down. However, all successful companies cope with this. the secret is in competent outsourcing Outsourcing is a whole separate market. ...
21 May 2025 /people /startups Business
Jf Sullivan Chief Strategy Officer at Snowdrop Solutions
a.k.a. “It's about Context, Stupid!” Despite big investments in time, energy and money, Personal Finance Management has failed to engage customers at most traditional retail banks. Just look at the numbers. On average, only 12% of a typical bank’s customer base actually use any PFM features such as pie charts, graphs and planning guides. And in pri...
21 May 2025 /ai /retail
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