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Maryna Chernenko

Maryna Chernenko Managing Director at UFG Capital

Venture capital industry continues to grow despite an end to easy money

The venture capital industry is one of the most important aspects of global finance today and is at the forefront of the most significant trends that emerge around the world. For instance, in recent years, the emergence of ESG and the global race to achieve net zero emissions have led to burgeoning investments in clean energy, while the pandemic h...

/wealth /markets Alternative Investments

Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

10 Questions That Will Reveal Whether Your Financial App Needs a Redesign

Some banks are still using products designed 10 years ago, while some Fintechs do redesigns every year. If you are unsure when to redesign your digital bank's app, test your situation using our checklist and explore the 7 steps to take toward a successful redesign. Rate the level of each aspect on a 10-point scale where: 1 - this does not happen a...

/retail /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Sean Gilbert

Sean Gilbert Chartered Financial Planner at Select Wealth Managers

Investing: Active or Passive?

The merits of active and passive investment have been debated for years, an average of 35 per cent of active equity funds outperformed their passive peer in the 12 months to June this year, according to Morningstar’s Active/Passive Barometer, which tracks the performance of 30,000 Europe-domiciled funds running €7tn (£6tn) in assets. Active and Pas...

/wealth /markets Personal Finance

Koen Vanpraet

Koen Vanpraet CEO EMEA at Moneycorp, CEO EMEA

Leveraging FX solutions in the face of a volatile pound

With recent ONS GDP data estimating that the UK economy shrank by 0.3% in August compared to July, the Bank of England now says the country will soon enter its longest recession since records began. The year has been defined by global turbulence and economic volatility - with events like the war in Ukraine and the UK's series of new prime minister...

/payments /markets The Payments Business

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Inflation and operating model optimisation

Rising inflation across the US, UK and the Eurozone is creating massive pressures across global markets. We’re seeing a reduction in the breadth of credit products, like mortgages, as they become more unaffordable, which leads to a reduction in volume and profitability as net interest margins are squeezed. Defaults are increasing – and will continu...

/markets Trends in Financial Services

Uldis Teraudkalns

Uldis Teraudkalns CEO at Nexpay

3 ways to maintain your perspective in crypto winter 3

Advocates of new technologies often like to think they exist outside the usual rules and trends of business. There are plenty of signposts for how this usually works out. The most famous is the “hype cycle” from tech high priests, Gartner. In the cycle, a new tech emerges, sounds exciting and gets hyped out of sight until it reaches “the peak of ...

/crypto /markets

Jamel Derdour

Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 - www.transact365.io

Payment gateways forge a path to financial flexibility

Alternative finance (alt-fi) has steadily grown as a viable payment method in the e-commerce ecosystem. According to a report from Cambridge Judge Business School, in 2020, online global alt-fi volume amounted to $114 billion. When looking at the market as a whole in 2022, the valuation of alt-fi digital assets reaches $1.05 trillion. Emerging o...

/payments /markets Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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How Identity Verification can help India’s growing Digital economy

In February 2021, the Reserve Bank of India published a paper detailing Digital Payment Security Controls (DPSC). The paper was developed to aid Indian financial organisations in protecting digital channels and offering commodities to clients with Identity Verification solutions. Global financial services corporations are caught between the govern...

/identity /markets

Paul Marcantonio

Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay

Payment Solutions To Help Businesses Scale in an Era of Economic Turbulence

As 2022 comes to an end, the global economic landscape is looking increasingly bleak. COVID-19, war, sanctions, energy shortages and inflation all contribute to a mood of uncertainty amongst business owners, and even the most successful companies are thinking hard about what the future might hold. So how can businesses stay competitive during a lo...

/payments /markets BNPL

Jonny Blausten

Jonny Blausten Co-founder and CEO at Sprout

VC funds: An alternative for private investors in an uncertain market

With annual returns in excess of 35% for over a decade from top quartile funds, venture capital (VC) has long been recognised as a top performing asset class, yet remains out of reach for most private investors. The best VC funds are only accessible to the minority of investors capable of writing cheques in excess of £1m+ (with some funds dema...

/wealth /markets Alternative Investments

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