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Everyday I meet enthusiastic Fintech entrepreneurs, who have started their Fintech Businesses focused on lending, wealth management, payments etc. Most of these entrepreneurs have business background ...
The rise of big data, computing power, and advanced analytics enables companies to gain valuable insights from data. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, and drones are j...
A recent PWC Study identified the following top sectors at potential high risk for automation: 63% Water, sewage and waste management 56% Transportation 46% Manufacturing 44% Wholesale an...
Theresa May has been re-elected but she has lost her parliamentary majority. Even with a ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the pro-remain Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), political risk in UK is ...
With information security rapidly gaining prominence over the last few years legislators have jumped into action to improve safeguards and public confidence in IT systems. While information security c...
Financial services organisations are at an inherently greater risk of cyber attacks due to the sensitive nature of the data they store, and the monetary motivations of cybercriminals, they are keenly ...
PSD2 introduces two measures amongst others that potentially contradict each other and may limit their ability to hit the goals they set out to achieve: Payment Initiation Service Providers (PISPs) ...
With the advancement of technology, the world is moving towards the cashless economy system. The internet has facilitated people with e-banking facilities. The recent statistics reveal the fact that t...
Banks and other financial trading firms are under constant pressure to improve their bottom lines. The pressure often is felt most acutely in terms of a focus on operational efficiencies, which only s...
Throughout the year, there has been plenty of discussion around frictionless payments, and reducing complexity for both consumers and for merchants. So, are card payments getting simpler, or more comp...
The rise in popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and a consumer desire to access valuable data on various devices has led to network security becoming increasingly complicated for financial serv...
Real Time Payments is 'in', it's cool, everyone's doing it, it's the awesome thing that will solve all our payments problems. Wait! What? Really? But which problems? Cast your mind back. It's 2004. 4 ...