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Katherine Chan CEO at Juice
As CEO of one of the fastest-growing fintech lenders in the UK, I’ve helped founders grow through calm and chaos. Right now, growth feels harder than ever. Nearly one million UK SMEs fear closure following April’s rise in employer National Insurance, minimum wage, and capital gains tax. At the same time, the British Chambers of Commerce shows fewe...
02 October 2025 /startups /inclusion
Alex Malyshev CEO, Co-founder at SDK.finance, FinTech software provider
Transactions per second (TPS) has become the payments industry's favourite vanity metric. Every year, headlines celebrate Visa's 65,000 TPS peaks or Alipay's half a million transactions in a single second. These numbers impress. But for 90% of banks, fintechs, and wallet providers, they are irrelevant - and chasing them is a costly distraction. Wh...
30 September 2025 /retail /markets
Sudha Rajamanickam Software Engineer at Episode six
Behind every withdrawal, loan, or transfer lies a hidden boss — the central bank. In this opening part of my series “The Payment Story,” I explore how central banks quietly shape liquidity, interest rates, and the very rules of the money game. Why do home loan rates rise and fall? Why can’t banks simply lend freely? Central banks set the guardrails...
29 September 2025 /payments /retail
Retired Member
In fintech today speed counts, regulatory complexity is unrelenting, and customer expectations shift continuously. Financial institutions and fintechs must make critical decisions about how best to acquire capabilities. Do you build internally, buy an existing solution or company, or collaborate / partner? Each path has trade-offs. Choosing wisely...
26 September 2025 /people /devops
Hiring used to be a sign of momentum. Now, it’s become a stress test. A few weeks ago, new data from the British Chambers of Commerce revealed that 13 percent of UK employers have already cut jobs, and another 19 percent are considering it, citing rising employer costs, especially National Insurance, as a key factor. I’ve seen this play out first-...
26 September 2025 /startups /inclusion
Jamie Hoyle VP Product at MirrorWeb
SMB and Mid-market financial firms face the same regulatory scrutiny as the largest players, but without the deep pockets or armies of compliance staff to match. Many still rely on outdated, manual, or fragmented review processes, which slow decision-making and stretch already-limited resources. In this environment, even small inefficiencies can
25 September 2025 /regulation /wealth
Scott Dawson CEO at DECTA
There is a contradiction at the heart of the UK economy. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) employ six in ten people and generate £2.8 trillion in turnover, yet when consumers were asked if the UK is a good place for them, only 23% of consumers said yes. That figure should stop us in our tracks. When confidence in SMEs is low, it seeps into...
25 September 2025 /payments /predictions
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are more than just a digital version of cash; they represent a fundamental shift in how monetary policy, payments, and economic inclusion are imagined. At the heart of this shift is the idea of programmable money: currency embedded with logic, rules, and triggers that can govern how it’s used, when, and by w...
24 September 2025 /payments
Anush Sachsuvarova Project Manager at Baseella Ltd
In today’s always-on digital economy, PayTechs - and when I use this term, I mean EMIs, PSPs, and adjacent fintechs that sit at the intersection of technology, payments, and regulation — face a stark reality. Even minutes of downtime can trigger financial losses, reputational harm, and regulatory attention. At the heart of the operations lies the c...
23 September 2025
The promise of FinTech in microfinance is clear. From mobile lending to digital wallets, technology has the power to expand access for underserved populations. Yet implementation is not automatic. Our publication, The Determinants of FinTech Implementation in Microfinance Companies – A Systematic Review (Offiong, Szopik-Depczyńska, Ioppolo, Singh,...
22 September 2025 /people /inclusion
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