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Cryptocurrencies are enjoying a boost in mainstream popularity and acceptance. Once spurned by serious investors as too unstable to trust, or even as inherently worthless, crypto is finding favour with governments and financial institutions as they seek to explore a world of payments and transactions outside of the traditional banking system. The...
26 October 2021 /crypto
Paul Christensen CEO at Previse
‘Building Back Better’ has become the UK Government’s phrase of the year. There is constant talk of the need to make our post-pandemic society stronger and more sustainable, yet it remains unclear what this so-called ‘better’ future will look like. Discussion surrounding the post-Covid world comes at a time of acute economic strain, with none feeli...
25 October 2021 /payments /sustainable
Pierre Suhrcke Venture Partner at TempoCap
The definition of insurance is protection against potential risk. For those companies providing insurance, whether to consumers or businesses, being able to accurately predict the likelihood of disruptive events occurring is critical to their business models. Yet as with almost every other industry, the insurance sector was severely exposed by the ...
20 October 2021
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
Just when you are simply unable to get onboard the right resources from your area or just when you want to hire skilled resources without paying a premium, you may decide to go remote hiring. There are two challenges involved in this. First of all, hiring a skilled team of offshore developers is not always easy and secondly, managing a remote deve...
20 October 2021 /startups /markets
CBDCs are important to the future of the financial industry and cooperation is needed with digital assets for success. Sibos, the world’s premier financial services event organised by SWIFT, held virtually in October 2021 has been rife with discussions surrounding central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and their place in the future of the industry...
18 October 2021 /payments /crypto
Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs
In fintech, user’s data protection is among the top priorities requested by regulations, but surprisingly they are mapped onto real-world risks. As a data security engineer, I can say that while it might look like much work to comply with GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, FFIEC, etc., these regulations exist not to add problems but to prevent them and protect ...
18 October 2021 /security /regulation
Vivek Dubey Industry Engagement Innovation-Associate Director at Capgemeini
FinTech is a very vast and interesting domain, and with the introduction of new technologies every day it is taking huge leaps. The acceptability index of consumers giving confidence to startups to come up with the real disruptions. Improving Financial services with the help of new-age technologies and regulations is FinTech. That defines the bas...
16 October 2021 /payments /inclusion
Richard Arundel Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist at Currencycloud
There are plenty of cliches about careers in finance, one of which is that traditional finance firms can be pretty stuffy, structured, and hierarchical environments. And, like all cliches, there’s a strong element of truth in there. Fintech carries its own cliches, of course. These are creative environments with a relaxed dress code – think fun a...
15 October 2021 /people /predictions
Jackie Barwell Director at ACI Worldwide
Fraud rates in the UK have been climbing to new record heights, so much so that the UK’s industry body UK Finance has been talking for the first time about fraud posing a national security threat. According to latest figures, £754m was stolen from bank customers during the first half of this year - a 30% rise compared to the same period in 2020. S...
14 October 2021 /payments /crime
Forward-looking banks are shifting their mindsets and including products and services from third parties that over-deliver on increasing customer needs. Innovation in the financial services sector is thriving and a new trend is fast approaching. It has less to do with core banking technologies and much more to do with integrating tech services. Thi...
12 October 2021 /payments /crypto
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