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Mark Jackson Managing Director - Product & Capabilities at Valuedynamx - a Collinson Company
Whether it’s acquisition or retention, loyalty is becoming harder to pin down in banking. In the U.S., inertia still defines how most people interact with their banks. The average adult keeps the same checking account for nearly 17 years, with many citing the only reason they haven’t switched because “it’s the account they’ve always had.” This
22 July 2025 /payments /retail
Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn
The financial services sector has reached an inflection point where legacy system modernization has shifted from strategic advantage to business imperative. Institutions operating on decades-old infrastructure face mounting pressure from regulatory evolution, competitive disruption, and customer expectations that legacy architectures simply cannot...
21 July 2025 /payments /retail
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
Overview People like real time (RTP: instant) payments. Economies where instant payments are used grow a minimum of 1 to 3% per annum. Instant payments in 2024 totalled $26 billion and expected to grow 5x by 2029. Growth Initiative Economic growth is down to the velocity of money. If someone has just been paid then they can then pay someone else ...
16 July 2025 /payments /crypto
Banks, Payment Service Providers and regulators are indebted to the Gambling Industry for continuingly improving the resilience and security of Cloud Technology. For example, EU has DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) which requires a 4 hour for reporting a major incident but no later than 24 hours. If an online gaming service goes down 10 m...
15 June 2025 /security /regulation
Historical Core banking systems can trace their origins 50 years ago to independent, branch-specific solutions running on IBM computers using legacy languages like RPG, COBOL, and Assembler. The branch bank industry consolidated around two major players - Temenos' Globus and Finastra's Midas - each serving over 300 banks, often with many installat...
06 June 2025 /payments /cloud
Roy Zur CEO at Charm Security
As scams become more advanced and personalized, the tactics used to manipulate individuals are increasingly rooted in behavioral psychology. What once required blunt deception now relies on nuance: fraudsters exploit victims' fears, biases, and emotional vulnerabilities with surgical precision. With fraudsters now equipped with generative AI tool...
27 May 2025 /security /crime
Ray Connolly Vice President of Sales at SQL Power Group
In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, central banks and financial regulators face mounting challenges. The need for real-time data analysis, proactive risk management, and seamless regulatory compliance has never been greater. A comprehensive, out-of-the-box supervisory technology (SupTech) platform offers a transformative opportunity f...
15 May 2025 /regulation
Igor Kostyuchenok SVP of Engineering at Mbanq
Dear European Incumbents, this an open letter to you from a founder of a FinTech startup. You've been watching the Neobanks like Revolut and N26 acquiring customers in your jurisdiction at a relatively high rate but you weren't worried since most of your customers stayed with you. You have the reputation, you're too big to fail and even you will ...
14 May 2025 /retail /predictions
The world of banking is at the verge of big changes that most incumbents are desperately trying to ignore. They see the change coming, they realize that their inactivity will cost them their existense but they are choosing to play dead. It's easier to cut the jobs and walk out with the bonuses then to start acting to still be relevant in 5-10 year...
01 May 2025 /retail /predictions
AI-assisted coding tools have added incredible momentum to software development. As the Managing Director of a software development company, many of my teams use AI coding tools daily. They help my teams build faster, remove tedious manual work, and prototype new ideas quickly. In the fintech industry, where innovation cycles are tightening, AI’s ...
28 April 2025 /ai /retail
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