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Esteban Lopez Global Industry Director FinTech at Kantox
It is no secret that Fintech is booming across Latin America. The three largest economies —Brazil, Mexico and Argentina—, boast of extremely innovative players in a wide range of activities, including neobanks, loan originators, prepaid card providers, ecommerce fulfilment services and others. The dynamic economies of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Urug...
19 September 2023 /inclusion /markets Fintech
Lorena Duguid Sharing insights at Intanify
This week our Head of Knowledge, Marious Georgiou, unpacks one of the UK software industry's biggest myths: all software is excluded from patenting. It's commonly believed that your valuable software product can't be protected by patents, but in this series of articles, we'll explain exactly why that's not true. Read on to find out! While soft...
19 September 2023 /startups /markets Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
Pay-per-use (PPU) business models are fast gaining ground in asset finance, especially for the leasing of commercial equipment and vehicles. But to date, automotive subscriptions have been slower to grow market share in the consumer space. Now, is the pace of change about to accelerate in auto finance? Understandably, auto finance providers have b...
13 September 2023 /markets /predictions Banking and Lending Solutions
Steve Sabin SVP, Division Executive, Lending at FIS
Even in tough macroeconomic times, commercial lending keeps markets moving and banks growing. And on the face of it, there are few better places to drive growth than Europe, where a multitude of bustling economies provide big opportunities for cross-border expansion. But loan servicing operations can be complex and costly when you’re lending to bu...
Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa
I recently wrote a Finextra piece entitled 3 GenAI Use Cases for Capital Markets; The Power of the Vector. In it, I discussed the increasing importance of the so-called vector database and vectors more generally to a whole range of quantitative finance applications. The term vector database, as I discussed in that piece, carries multiple, overload...
07 September 2023 /startups /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Daniel Schlaepfer CEO at Select Vantage Inc
The emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom has already seen a host of applications unveiled as supposedly advanced trading tools. Just this week we’ve seen the launch of Meta Trade Bot (unrelated to the Facebook-owning company), a cloud-hosted auto-trading tool designed to “eliminate human emotion in trading, enhance trading efficiency, and aim...
07 September 2023 /regulation /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Ainur Zhanturina Partner at @Fintech Consult, Founder@ RISE Research
Kazakhstan’s fintech market stands out as the largest in Central Asia, with remarkable growth rates that place it among the fastest-growing fintech markets in Asia. With high rates of account ownership (more than 80%) and widespread internet access (more than 90%), Kazakhstani consumers are actively embracing digital payment methods. In this artic...
06 September 2023 /inclusion /markets Fintech
Many of the assets that form the foundations of modern companies are overlooked, especially in the fast-paced world of software development. These assets are the keys to unlocking innovation and efficiency - but the risk of missing out on them is real. Companies that fail to harness their intangible assets risk falling behind in the competitive t...
04 September 2023 /startups /markets Fintech innovation and startups
Leetal Gruper Co-Founder & CEO at Tarci
Subscription plans are successful in helping small businesses grow in both profitability and customer satisfaction. However, this model is losing its charm as we evolve into a post-pandemic era, which can be harmful to companies that serve small businesses. According to Tarci data, in 2022, there was a 49% decrease in small businesses offering sub...
04 September 2023 /markets /covid-19 Banking and Lending Solutions
Vlad Dobrynin Founder & CEO at Humans Group
The Uzbek market is in a stage of transitioning towards becoming a digital economy. Humans Group founder Vlad Dobrynin discusses what initiatives the region needs, how to replicate the UAE’s and China’s successes in Uzbekistan, and why it’s important to go cashless and view the country as a startup. The Regulatory Landscape: Slow-Paced Evolution ...
03 September 2023 /inclusion /markets Fintech World
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