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Muluken Alemu CEO at BirrLink Financial Technology
The African opportunity for the Fintech industry 14 February 2023. Edited by: Muluken Alemu The African houses more than a billion people today, and yet the entirety of the continent seems to suffer from the state of being ignored. The continent, while currently underdeveloped and in parts still in turmoil, has many nations that are actually in t...
15 February 2023 /markets
Stu Bradley Sr. VP of Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions at SAS
In her 2009 hit single, Lady Gaga sings about being “caught in a bad romance” with an irresistible lover. Not unlike the songstress, nearly 70,000 US singles were entangled in a bad romance of their own in 2022: a romance scam. The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) latest data reveals a heart-stopping $1.3 billion swindled by romance scammers in 20...
13 February 2023 /payments /crime
Galit Shani-Michel VP Payments at Forter
As the new year sets in and proactive merchants continue to think of ways to boost revenue in the face of a likely recession across many parts of the world, paying attention to hard declines might not be the first area of the payments journey that gets attention. Why is this? It’s because hard declines seem to end the customer’s journey. Most peop...
10 February 2023 /payments /retail
Prateek Duhan Senior Consultant at Capco
Part 1: Three Pillars of Successful Change Organizations In this series we will look at where financial institutions stumble on the path to building high-performing change organizations, which limits their ability to deliver meaningful strategic transformation. The most successful transformation organizations are those that realize very quickly tha...
06 February 2023 /wealth /wholesale
Vlad Dobrynin Founder & CEO at Humans Group
Citizens of Uzbekistan will use online payments more often, more monopolistic ecosystems will appear on the market, and fintech startups will have to fight for their survival — here are five key trends that will change the financial technology industry in 2023. 1. An outflow of capital as a side effect of «black swan» events A lack of norms is th...
06 February 2023 /markets /predictions
Maksym Popov COO at 42flows.tech
As more customers shift from conventional financial institutions to online-first sites, neobanks are becoming increasingly popular. Customers can now easily access their accounts and transact on the go with the neobank development. Besides making it easier for customers to transact, this software also offers insurance products, foreign exchange, an...
04 February 2023 /payments
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Digital wallet innovators are integrating modern services into ecosystem platforms and transforming economies in the process. Across the globe, mobile wallets are driving inclusion by providing financial access to previously underserved communities—as well as providing huge opportunities for industry growth. Digital wallets bring modern services to...
01 February 2023 /payments /crypto
In our family 2 inch gaffer tape is known as 100mph tape. The name is a throwback to the days when my dad used to rally. Anyone who has rallied will know things break and fall off, and rallying isn’t a sport with a pit with a team of fully equipped mechanics around every muddy turn or conveniently positioned in every forest, so much of the time yo...
01 February 2023 /wealth /predictions
Miguel Fernandez Larrea Co-Founder and CEO at Capchase
With headlines full of doom and gloom about the macroeconomic outlook in 2023, and global headwinds adding to domestic pressures, it is clear that businesses face a difficult period ahead. Europe’s SMEs, very much the bedrock of the European economy, are once again navigating challenging times, with increased pressure and more hurdles to jump over...
01 February 2023 /startups /predictions
As we hit full speed with our plans for the coming year, it’s only natural to consider what the months ahead will bring. Yet, in the risk management realm at least, this annual look forward feels somehow different. There’s an unspoken gravitas to the exercise as we survey the dominant trends coloring the global economic picture: high inflation, ri...
27 January 2023 /regulation /predictions
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