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Jose Carvalho Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Payments at American Express
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) now spend an average of £1 million (£1,016,194) each on business expenditure every year, according to new research*. The biggest costs in this annual shopping bill include hiring new staff, paying suppliers and investing in technology. And SME spending only rises as businesses age, so getting cashflow ma...
17 January 2018 /payments /startups
Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
I was invited as Keynote speaker in GCC Blockchain event in Dubai on 22 and 23 November 2017. I advocated for my area on AI and its subfield for FinTech. Also gave me lot of insight on how Blockchain can equally disrupt FinTech of rather doing it along with AI. In line with a Dubai goal towards making it the first Blockchain-powered government in ...
17 January 2018 /ai
Piyush Srivastava President & Chief Operating Officer at RiskCounts LLC
In this increasing debate over AI, in how it is good for mankind, and on the other side, how it is going to take away our jobs, what is the right answer? I would take the analogy of the advent of cars, trains or airplanes, in the times when people used horse carriages, horses or bullock carts. What was the advantage of a motor car or the train? Wel...
10 January 2018 /ai /inclusion
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
As the new year gets into its stride, I can see the insurance industry heading in some exciting directions. The starting point is how the last twelve or more months have witnessed Insurtech and Data Analytics make big inroads. However, the year ahead will be about how those ideas and blueprints are turned into more concrete outcomes for insure
08 January 2018 /ai
Retired Member
So 2017 is over, and it has been an action packed year for blockchain. I started publishing a monthly round-up of Blockchain in Action from June 2017, and I can say that the number of stories of blockchain in action has only increased with very interesting use cases and applications. In this post, I am sharing a curated list of the stories from De...
08 January 2018
It’s simple: the probability of being under cyber attack is 100%. From a Cyber Defense perspective, you have to be right all the time, at the contrary your adversary has to be right only once. Due to the nature of API’s, and their application in a financial context, the impact of exploiting a vulnerability could be huge. Imagine a flaw would let a...
20 December 2017 /security
The life of a trader has evolved significantly over the last few years. Previously managing data from one or two channels of communication, technological advancements and the rise of modern day communication platforms, such as social media, are now forcing traders to consider growing volumes of data from multiple sources all needing to be captured...
08 December 2017
I got a call from a trusted chum who has been a wonderful source of advice and inspiration to me in building our non-bank for the credit impaired. He is London-based, progressive, innovative and fearless. He also knows a thing or two about creating brands, with a globally successful one of his own. “Have you thought about doing a bitcoin debit c...
06 December 2017
One more month down in 2017, and the blockchain momentum is only accelerating with many more interesting applications and use cases across all industries, all geographies and all sizes of organizations. In this post I am sharing a round-up of some of the interesting stories of blockchain in action for Nov 2017. Former Credit Suisse and UBS execs...
05 December 2017
Carl Rogers Director at Finceler8
In the last few years I have been mentoring multiple early stage fintech companies through accelerator programs as well as directly. Although I should not be I am continually surprised to learn that few companies at this stage put as much effort into sales as they do on product and funding, especially in the B2B space. Whilst it is clear you need ...
30 November 2017 /startups
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