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Colin Neil Managing Director Adyen U.K. at Adyen
The fintech industry has been disrupting traditional industries for several years now. One of the biggest has been retail. The way in which consumers buy and retailers sell their products has changed dramatically thanks to the available resources of fintech businesses. The pandemic has fuelled the biggest change in the retail experience for the la...
23 December 2021 /payments /covid-19
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
App development is getting costlier and more complicated because of the ever-evolving features, user experience standards, and new skill requirements. This is why app projects often prefer to outsource development, particularly for certain niches such as fintech outsourcing development has become a regular phenomenon. But why not find app develop...
20 December 2021 /people /startups
Henry Bell Head of Product at Vendorland
In the past few decades, the innovativeness of FinTech industry has surpassed even the most optimistic expectations. The industry has dozens of large players valued in tens of billions. Many of the unicorn startups might be disrupting industries with their innovative products, but when it comes to internal planning, they’re lagging behind. FinTec...
18 December 2021 /sustainable
Retired Member
Until recently, accessing liquidity was like an exclusive pool party in the Hamptons. It was not for everyone: you had to know a banker or someone from Wall Street to get in. Entry requirements were strict: you could only wear white or linen. The waiting time was also very long: you had to find the right time to be greeted by the party host. La
16 December 2021 /inclusion /crypto
Facebook invests in developing the metaverse, growth in metaverse tokens, and the key tokens to watch. The new phase of the internet is here. The metaverse combines virtual, augmented and extended reality with our physical world and the next two years look very promising for the industry, with Bloomberg predicting its market size to grow to over $8...
14 December 2021 /payments /crypto
From eye-watering funding rounds to the acceleration of digital payments and the rise of ecommerce - the fintech sector has continued to demonstrate its innovation and agility, even in the most challenging of times. With the new year just around the corner, this is an opportune time to take a moment to reflect on some of this year’s most prominent...
09 December 2021 /predictions
Payments are the foundation of global commerce. With economic activity expected to rebound from the prolonged pandemic, experts predict global payment volumes to grow by 11.5 percent through the year 2023. This increase in volume is set to challenge existing systems that were built to cater for manual processes, thus proving inadequate for the aut...
08 December 2021 /payments
Roel Jansen SaaS Solutions Marketing at Temenos
The financial industry transformed in the past decade significantly in the way they serve their clients, banks seek greater speed and agility through cloud adoption. Many banks were confronted with significant barriers during the first phases of cloud adoption, and now are challenged to push down costs, manage security issues, and require better ...
02 December 2021 /retail /cloud
The very first chatbot was not very friendly When I was a kid, I read The Argonautica — a Greek epic poem by Apollonius Rhodius, written in the third century BC. It tells the myth of Jason and his crew (that included Hercules) having an epic journey full of heroic adventures in order to obtain the Golden Fleece, held in Colchis (modern Georgia — t...
30 November 2021 /payments /predictions
Jackie Barwell Director at ACI Worldwide
Financial fraud causes billions in losses every year for banks and financial institutions (FIs). By 2027, the global cost of fraud could reach $40.62 billion. In the UK alone, £753.9 million was stolen through fraud this year, an increase of 30% compared to the same period in 2020. The rapid adoption of digital and real-time payments and new payme...
30 November 2021 /payments /crime
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