Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter
A Junior Individual Savings Account (JISA) is a tax-free way to save or invest for children in the UK. Opening and contributing money to a JISA is an excellent way to prepare for your child's financial future. However, there are five must-know factors to consider when opening a JISA account on behalf of your child in 2025. 1. There are two types o...
25 July 2025 /wealth
Prakash Bhudia HOD โ Product & Growth at Deriv
Once considered a relic of pre-2008 trading, the yen carry trade is beginning to stir once more - like a familiar ghost returning to old haunts. With traders eyeing up Japanโs ultra-low rates and a Fed still wary of inflation, some are quietly positioning for a return to a strategy that once defined global capital flows. Sure, headlines have been ...
25 July 2025 /markets
Nick Jones CEO at Zumo
The value of the global cryptocurrency market recently reached $4 trillion for the first time, with retail investors all around the world eyeing up the exciting new opportunities on offer. In Spain, BBVA has unveiled its cryptocurrency trading and custody service for Bitcoin and Ether, which is now available to all retail customers of legal age i...
25 July 2025 /regulation /crypto
Slava Mehovich Founder at AKDev Group
Biometric technologies such as Face ID and fingerprint scanning are actively discussed in the financial technology industry. Let's figure out which one is more reliable in the context of financial transactions. Face ID uses an infrared TrueDepth camera that projects more than 30,000 dots to create a 3D map of the face. The data is converted into a...
24 July 2025 /security /identity Biometrics
Nikunj Gundaniya Product manager at Digipay.guru
Did you know that over 80% of global consumers now use digital payment methods regularly? That number keeps growing every year. Your customers expect you to keep up. They donโt want to wait in lines or deal with outdated systems; they want speed, ease, and control. As Bill Gates once said, โBanking is necessary, banks are not.โ If you donโt adapt...
24 July 2025 /payments
Vipin Kumar Sharma IT and Consulting Delivery Manager at Infosys Ltd
Sam Altman joined the Federal Reserve this week to talk about AIโs growing role in finance, and every FinTech leader should be paying attention. On July 22, 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joined the Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michelle Bowman in Washington, D.C. to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping banking, security, and the future of fi...
24 July 2025 /regulation /markets RegTech
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
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 convenienceโthey are fundamentally changing how institutions interact with customers, streamline operations, and create more human-centric experiences. As fint...
23 July 2025
Dave Glaser CEO at Dwolla
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 paymentsโthey want smarter, more reliable, and ...
23 July 2025 /payments
Kseniya Shemets Software Developer at https://finage.co.uk
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 โ both in terms of pricing and flexibility. But over the past decade, a quiet trans...
23 July 2025 /markets API
John Reese Business Analyst | Platform Growth Expert at Hashcodex
Planning to build a crypto exchange? Great idea. But before you launch, thereโs one thing you need to get right: your MVP. An MVP is your first version. It should be simple, but strong. Itโs the version youโll 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...
23 July 2025 /startups /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
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