Sam Boboev Founder at Fintech Wrap Up
Embedded finance is the practice of weaving financial services directly into software products and platforms. In other words, non-financial apps and marketplaces let users access bank accounts, payments, lending, insurance or other financial tools without leaving the app they already use. This idea may sound daunting, but it’s rapidly becoming a ...
05 October 2025 /payments
Anand Salodkar Director at Dolby Labs
The End of Perimeter Thinking For decades, audit and security teams have relied on a familiar map: users inside the perimeter were trusted, those outside were not. But that map no longer matches reality. Data lives in the cloud, users work from everywhere, and machine identities now outnumber humans. In some companies, AI models themselves initiat...
05 October 2025 /ai /security
Sanju Biswas Marketing Head at Abhiloans
In the fast-paced world of credit lending, assessing borrower risk goes beyond checking credit scores. Financial institutions increasingly rely on comprehensive legal due diligence to mitigate potential pitfalls like undisclosed litigation, regulatory violations, or compliance gaps. A Legal Due Diligence Tool such as LIBIL™ by Legitquest transfor...
03 October 2025
Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn
Walk into any bank's strategy meeting today and you'll hear the same refrain: "We need AI in our analytics." But here's what they're not telling you: most financial institutions are implementing AI/BI tools without understanding the fundamental shift required in how they think about data. I've spent years helping fintech companies
02 October 2025 /payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Saeid Kian Co-Founder and CEO at Ribbon
The finance industry is under constant pressure to continuously innovate and deliver faster. Added to that is the underlying emphasis to drive a digital-first experience, which has really shaped technological transformation across financial institutions. Efficiency has become the benchmark of success, but the focus on speed and automation risks...
02 October 2025 /ai
Ben O'Brien Managing Director at Jaywing
The Bank of England’s Future Banking Data (FBD) programme has released its first major output: Consultation Paper CP21/25. It proposes a more streamlined approach to regulatory reporting, aimed at easing the administrative load for UK banks, building societies, and investment firms. This represents an important development. The FBD programme merges...
02 October 2025 /regulation
Timely, accurate and high-quality data is the foundation of effective modelling, analysis and risk management. Regulators, through initiatives such as BCBS 239, have sought to strengthen control and ensure data is fit for purpose. Yet supervisors often expect straightforward answers, and struggle with ranges, error margins and the uncertainty that...
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
It is now obvious that there is a need to advance much faster – and soon go deeper - than was previously thought in the EU Trust Infrastructure rollout. The critically important step is to take suitable issuing and verification agents in use in public sector units and progressive enterprises without delay and start data exchange testing. The tech...
02 October 2025
Katherine Chan CEO at Juice
As CEO of one of the fastest-growing fintech lenders in the UK, I’ve helped founders grow through calm and chaos. Right now, growth feels harder than ever. Nearly one million UK SMEs fear closure following April’s rise in employer National Insurance, minimum wage, and capital gains tax. At the same time, the British Chambers of Commerce shows fewe...
02 October 2025 /startups /inclusion Fintech
Thorsten Hein Principal Product Marketing Mgr. & Insurance Lead at SAS
Insurance pricing is a complex exercise. To set the premium price for a policy, an insurer must evaluate various risk factors associated with the person, property or entity to be covered. And insurers shouldn’t be limited to their own internal risk assessment alone; they should combine their own data with market data to understand the pricing stra...
01 October 2025 /ai Digital Insurance Trends
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