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Serhii Bondarenko

Serhii Bondarenko Artificial Intelegence at Tickeron

SPY From History to Forecast: Trading with Artificial Intelligence

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), a cornerstone of modern investing, mirrors the performance of the S&P 500 index, offering investors exposure to the largest U.S. companies. Since its inception in 1993, SPY has navigated a complex landscape of economic booms, crises, and technological advancements. This article, written from the perspectiv...

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Naina Rajgopalan

Naina Rajgopalan Content Head at Freo

How to Send Money from the UK

Sending money abroad from the United Kingdom may be necessary in a variety of situations: providing financial support to family and friends, paying for services, or replenishing an account in another country. There are several ways to make such international transactions, each with its own features, benefits, and specific limitations. Let’s explor...

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Saumil Patel

Saumil Patel Content Marketing Manager at InCred Money

How the Startup India Scheme Has Changed India’s Business Landscape?

The Scheme for Startup India, rolled out in 2016, was intended to ignite innovation, make entrepreneurs stronger, and catapult India as a destination for startups globally. It has, in a matter of two years, been one of the biggest drivers transforming the country's business ecosystem. From making regulatory conditions simpler to making capital mor...

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Serhii Bondarenko

Serhii Bondarenko Artificial Intelegence at Tickeron

If the U.S. Avoids a Recession, the Mag 7 Will Win Big—and How to Trade While Waiting for Confirmati

Wall Street analysts expect the “Magnificent Seven” tech giants—Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla—to deliver an average 15% profit growth in 2025, a forecast that’s barely budged despite rising trade tensions. Should the U.S. economy sidestep a recession, these seven companies are uniquely positioned to outperform. Meanwhi...

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Jamel Derdour

Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 - www.transact365.io

Open Banking in Europe: Accelerating Growth and Innovation

Since the implementation of PSD2 in 2018, open banking has gained significant traction across Europe. By 2020, approximately 12.2 million Europeans were utilising Open Banking services, accounting for nearly half of the global user base at that time. In 2023, the European open banking market generated approximately USD 9.28 billion in revenue. Proj...

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US Regulation Survey 2025: Compliance at a Crossroads

Assessing financial industry preparedness in a shifting US regulatory landscape as organisations struggle with deadlines, cost, and technology. In an environment of rapidly evolving regulations, driven by legislative and policy shifts at the federal and state levels, the US regulatory landscape is marked by complexity and uncertainty. Understanding the level of preparedness across industries is crucial for ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and enhancing operational efficiency. This survey was conducted at the beginning of 2025, gathering financial services industry sentiment as the Trump Administration took office and began pivoting on key regulatory elements. With the US financial regulation regime also somewhat in limbo, that uncertainty was – and is – increasingly impacting the views of the 200 organisations surveyed. Analysis of our survey responses provides a comprehensive overview of the state of regulation readiness in the US, differences in reporting obligations, the impacts of automation for compliance, the roles of technology and data, and industry plans for modernisation. We explore: Which regulations will have the biggest impact on US financial services in 2025; Regulatory effects on organisational frameworks, budgets and staffing; How organisations are leveraging technology and partnerships to streamline regulatory compliance.

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Sustainable Finance Live – Natural Capital Finance

A Record from the Sustainable Finance Live Conference and Hackathon 2024  On 8 October 2024, Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk held the annual Sustainable Finance Live hybrid conference and hackathon, in partnership with NayaOne.  The conference took place at Events@ No6 in London, and started off with a welcome from founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor for Finextra, Richard Peers. Peers opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event: to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.  The focus areas of the conference were natural capital, agriculture, supply chains, as well as regulation and reporting. The sessions also highlighted highlighting new technologies that are being used to collect nature-related data such as Earth observation and satellite reporting.  Richard Peers, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of ResponsibleRisk, moderated the conference: “What we wanted to do is to put on an event aimed at explaining the landscape of a natural capital transaction, with the associated data providers identified along the way. Ending the process in an asset management trading platform, taking into consideration all the steps that a regulated entity has to undertake, to prove to the financial industry that this can be an asset class, that is as tradable as any other.”  Download a Visual Record of the event below to discover key themes of the event’s panels, keynotes, and hackathon. We cover:  Natural capital trading from field to trade;  How nature financing can be achieved;  The role of data, economic profit, and policy for natural capital;  How to build a sustainable ecosystem using natural value;  Visions and results from the hackathon;  And more. 

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White Paper

Beyond Tomorrow In The Capital Markets

Technology has long been transforming the capital markets industry, but the tides are changing for what is considered success. Now more than ever, firms need to prioritise operational resilience.  Technological advances are indisputably reshaping how firms in the capital markets operate, however, as the reliance on technology grows, so does the impact of glitches and outages when they occur. Take the CrowdStrike global outage, for example, which caused an estimated $1.15BN and $140M in financial losses for the banking and financial sectors respectively.  The consecutive outages expose the fragility of technical infrastructure and underscore a need for better operational resilience across the capital markets. It also reiterates the importance of preparing for the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), implementing uniform operational resilience rules for financial entities throughout Europe, and its equivalents elsewhere.  This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with CJC, explores:  The challenges in the capital markets industry;  How institutions can address these challenges;  Ensuring future resilience by bridging the skills gap;  Real-world case studies;  And more. 

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FinextraTV

Digital Transformation: Get a Handle on Your Data First

In this FinextraTV interview, Arsalan Minhas, AVP, Sales Engineering EMEA & APAC, Hyland and Matt Bazley, Account Executive, Hyland explain the evolution of digital transformation. Whilst discussing the usage of AI, blockchain and new-age technologies, they also define the importance of well-structured, transparent and secure data as a first priority

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Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Trump’s first 100 days: Have his accomplishments matched his promises?

While many news organisations are taking wider views of the situation, we chose to narrow our focus to financial services industry impacts as much as possible in this view on US President Trump’s first 100 days. We explored, through extensive research across a wide political and economic spectrum, how well his pre-election promises reflect the tar...

Richard Robinson

Richard Robinson Chair at ISITC

T+1 in practice: What the industry has learned

When the U.S. officially transitioned to T+1 settlement last May, the headlines painted it as a sweeping modernisation effort — faster, leaner, and more liquid markets. In many ways, that was accurate. Broker-to-broker transactions became more efficient, capital was freed up, and the theoretical reduction in settlement risk became a tangible o...

Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Canada’s 2025 federal election and the fintech frontier: Risks and reforms

As Canada’s federal election approaches on 28 April 2025, the financial services sector could be standing at a pivotal juncture. The BBC reported a record-breaking early voter turnout with 7.3 million Canadians casting their ballots a week ahead of election day. Polling has suggested that Liberal former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor M...