Kanchan Mishra CEO at SustainoMetric
For decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been the primary force pushing sustainability onto boardroom agendas. They have worked tirelessly to frame environmental and social governance not just as a matter of reputational risk or strategic importance, but as a fundamental component of value creation and societal benefit. From advanci...
1 hour /sustainable /markets Women in Finance
Nikunj Gundaniya Product manager at Digipay.guru
Did you know that over 60% of Africa’s adult population still lacks access to formal banking services? For millions of people, SACCOs remain the first and often the only bridge to financial inclusion. But here’s the catch: traditional SACCO systems are no longer enough to meet the rising expectations of members. And your members want speed, tran...
2 hours /retail /inclusion
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
A New Era in Payments The global payments industry, a sector generating an astonishing $2.5 trillion in annual revenue (in 2024), is at a turning point. The long-standing pursuit of a single, universally efficient system is giving way to a new era defined by competition among diverse market systems, each with its own rules and technologies. This t...
2 hours /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Enormous investments have gone into optimizing the customer onboarding process. Fintechs have led the way in creating real-time, frictionless onboarding experiences that not only establish a customer relationship and open the necessary accounts but also handle all required KYC due diligence. For fintechs, whose survival often depended on rapid gro...
5 hours /regulation /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Akshar Prabhu Desai Payments engineer
Large language models have simplified how people use the internet. People do not have to sift through mountains of internet links anymore. They just have to ask the chat interface, which answers based on the content it has crawled from those pages in the past. This means the webpages do not serve the users directly anymore. This breaks how websi
8 hours /ai /identity
Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter
The impact of tariffs has been one of the major confounding factors for businesses around the world, with new levies on trade driving significant levels of uncertainty across long-standing supply chains. However, businesses have begun to work on out-innovating their newfound trade challenges. One of the heaviest impacted supply chain regions by ...
21 hours /markets
More fintech firms than ever are beginning to embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence, but how is the technology helping to reshape talent acquisition throughout the sector? According to a recent survey, as many as 75% of financial firms are already using AI to bolster their operations, a figure that far surpasses the 58% ...
22 hours /ai
Aare Reintam Chief Operating Officer at CybExer Technologies
Over the summer, we saw the second phase of the European Union (EU) AI Act come into force, with the addition of obligations for general purpose AI models (GPAI). Under the legislation, all GPAI providers have two years to ensure compliance with copyright and transparency obligations. Crucially, this applies to any organisation utilising GPAI mod...
27 October 2025 /security /regulation
Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI
The relentless march of artificial intelligence (AI) offers unprecedented opportunities for efficiency, innovation, and enhanced customer experiences within the financial services industry. However, the path to AI adoption is not paved with gold. It requires navigating a complex landscape where trust, agility, and speed must be carefully balanced
26 October 2025 /ai /regulation Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Sam Boboev Founder at Fintech Wrap Up
Fintech in 2025 isn’t about flashy apps anymore. The era of cheap money and consumer buzz has given way to a focus on building the bedrock of financial services. As CB Insights warns, momentum has “shifted from the front end to the foundation” – think data plumbing, compliance robots, and payment rails – rather than another Curve or Revolut clone...
26 October 2025 /ai /payments
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