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Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Latest thinking in respect to Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation. Harnessing our collective wisdom to make banking better. Ambrish Parmar

Sergiy Fitsak

Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn

Why Financial Services Are Betting Big on AI-Powered Analytics (And What Most Get Wrong)

Walk into any bank's strategy meeting today and you'll hear the same refrain: "We need AI in our analytics." But here's what they're not telling you: most financial institutions are implementing AI/BI tools without understanding the fundamental shift required in how they think about data. I've spent years helping fintech companies

/payments /retail

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Stablecoin Renaissance for Financial Services

The new stablecoin regulations in the US, Wyoming, and Hong Kong represent a significant shift toward ongoing monitoring rather than periodic compliance checks. The HKMA's requirements now include: Regular customer information updates Continuous transaction monitoring for suspicious activities Periodic risk profile reviews The penalties are subst...

/ai /regulation

Sharon Tan

Sharon Tan Field Marketing Lead, Financial Services, APJ at Oracle Financial Services

Trade and Supply Chain Finance Transformed: 5 Key Takeaways

Recently I hosted a roundtable discussion that brought together the leading trade finance and transaction banking practitioners to discuss the most pertinent trade and supply chain finance topics across digitalization, the impact of AI, standards and regulation. What emerged from the conversations was a clear picture of both the challenges and oppo...

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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

Beyond Features: How Rich Digital UX Can Unlock Banks’ True Market Potential

Traditional banks often find themselves in a challenging position. On one hand, they possess a deep and sophisticated portfolio of financial products and services—ranging from complex credit facilities to wealth management, business banking, and personalized advisory. On the other hand, fintech startups and neobanks have captured mindshare and mar...

/retail /devops

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

Stablecoin and Ready Reckoner = accelerating growth

A ready reckoner is a printed book containing pre-calculated values, often multiples of given amounts, available in the UK before decimalisation in 1971 – when 12 pennies became 10. Stablecoin is a new digital form of money and represents the paper money at par, for example, one Wyoming’s new Stablecoin, Frontier is equal to one US Dollar. The end...

/regulation /crypto

Livia Bernardini

Livia Bernardini CEO at Future Platforms

Beyond the Transaction: How Embedded Payments Are Redefining the Customer Experience

We’ve been able to pay online for more than two decades, but for much of that time, there were really only two options: credit or debit cards. Over the last ten years or so that’s changed. Embedded payments have introduced a whole range of methods: digital wallets, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), account-to-account (A2A), and stablecoins, to name but

/payments /retail

Sergiy Fitsak

Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn

FinTech Compliance in 2025: The Rules Are Changing — Are You Ready?

As fintech platforms expand globally and adopt emerging technologies, they face a rapidly shifting regulatory environment. From data privacy and payment security to open banking and AI explainability, compliance is no longer just a box to tick; it is central to product design, user trust, and operational scalability. This article outlines the key r...

/payments /retail

John Bertrand

John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited

The emerging business case and BoE latest on Stablecoins

Stablecoins are crypto with a reserve of assets, one -to-one in value associated with the coins outstanding. Assets are of high-quality liquid value e.g. short-term US T-bills or commodities, such as gold. In September 2025 The Bank of England (BoE) reflected on its new wholesale Real Time Gross Settlement System (RT2) which includes ‘multi-money’....

/payments /crypto

Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

Highlight ROX in Digital Banking to Get Executive Buy-In for UX

It’s a wake-up call for product owners, digital project managers, and designers in banks and financial institutions. You can—and must—move UX (user experience) and digital branding to the center of strategy and weave them into the DNA of the business. Because if you don’t, you’re not just risking a bad app rating—you’re risking the future of your ...

/retail /markets

Luigi Wewege

Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank

Digital Integration Over Dollar Dependence: Central America’s Banking Crossroads

For decades, Central America’s financial systems have stood on fragile ground, tethered to the U.S. dollar and reliant on foreign correspondent banks. Every major shock from the debt crises of the 1980s to the 2008 global meltdown and the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the same vulnerabilities: liquidity squeezes, shrinking credit, and instabilit

/retail /predictions

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