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Jairo Riveros Managing Director of the United States and LatAm at Paysend
Propelled by the pandemic, consumer demand for digital financial services has begun to soar. With stores shutting down across the country and consumers forced to buy online, many businesses and consumers switched to contactless methods of payments over the last couple of years. Many financial services took this opportunity to begin implementing di...
07 April 2022 /payments /inclusion Frictionless Payments
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Competition and rapid change characterize the fintech sector. To succeed in the financial market, a new company must be able to distinguish itself from the established players and maintain an advantage over them. Using SEO and digital marketing approaches that may effectively promote a brand, widen a client base, and build consumer confidence, a ne...
30 March 2022 /startups /inclusion
Retired Member
The ever-present risks from climate change have made sustainability a key topic for financial institutions. Companies have historically driven financial, security, and agility benefits through the cloud, but there is also clear ESG benefits to taking a cloud-first approach. During a recent panel discussion with colleagues, and with Microsoft’s EME...
22 March 2022 /sustainable /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen
Online banking has changed the model of customer interaction with financial institutions. The American Bankers Association has found that people are more likely to manage money through smartphones (39%). 32% of consumers access online banking from a laptop or a PC. Only 10% of clients prefer to conduct transactions in a bank branch. A similar situ...
17 March 2022 /startups /inclusion Fintech innovation and startups
While gender representation has certainly seen an overall improvement in the world of work over the past few years, the question remains whether it has had an impact in business leadership yet. Recent data shows that across the FTSE 100, there are three times more female employees today compared to ten years ago, up from 12.5% to 39.1% over the
09 March 2022 /people /inclusion Women in Technology
Akshay Grover CEO at Cellulant
Africa’s vibrant economy and lack of significant legacy payment infrastructure have led to a curious phenomenon on the continent. On the one hand, it has given rise to an explosion of payment platforms and solutions designed to respond to the different needs of businesses and consumers on the continent – making the region a beacon of innovation in...
03 March 2022 /payments /inclusion The Payments Business
Open banking has been a game-changer for financial services. It has enabled financial institutions and third-party providers (TPPs) to exchange data and services – not only enhancing existing capabilities but delivering improved experiences to market with access to transaction data. Take a mortgage application, for example. With open banking, cu...
01 March 2022 /inclusion /predictions Innovation in Financial Services
Facebook has a problem. Gen Z thinks it’s a stale old “boomer” platform. In 2012, 94% of teens had an account. A decade later, it’s thought only 27% of adolescents use the network. Last year, Mark Zuckerberg hastily announced attracting younger users should become its immediate north star. However, as its stock plunged $230 billion in a single d...
01 March 2022 /inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion
Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter
The record-breaking IPO market of 2021 may be a tough act to follow, but with a series of blockbuster initial public offerings set to arrive in the coming months, we may see a strong follow-up in 2022. The IPO market became red-hot in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic as a rapid acceleration towards digital transformation and the arrival of gover...
01 March 2022 /inclusion
Dexter Penn CEO at Kalgera
This week marks a year since the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued guidance to financial institutions for the fair treatment of vulnerable customers. The aim of the guidance is to encourage banks and building societies to better understand the needs of vulnerable customers so that they can better serve them. Ahead of the anniversary, we con...
25 February 2022 /regulation /inclusion RegTech
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