943 Results from /markets
Nick Boyer Senior Director, Strategic Consulting at PROS
The UK is in the midst of an inflation crisis: with rates soaring, inflation is forecast to hit 8% by April 2022 according to economists. Due to a combination of factors, including the fallout from Covid, Brexit and supply chain disruptions, companies are experiencing a dramatic rise in their input costs, due to the price of transport and material...
25 April 2022 /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Ivan Zhiznevskiy Founder & CEO at 3S Money
There’s a long-standing belief among Fintech founders that you need VC (Venture Capitalist) investment when starting out to make the biggest splash. But this just isn’t the case. I know this from first-hand experience. “It’ll never take off,” is what I was told bluntly by one VC as he tucked into lobster linguine in a central-London restaurant. N...
25 April 2022 /inclusion /markets Small Business Lending Innovation
Jaime Lowe Sales Director at UTP Group
The pandemic fueled a mass subscription due to a shared feeling of all those stuck at home, boredom. As a result more people subscribed to Netflix with the streaming giant reaching 220 million subscribers globally. We clung to Netflix, our modern book club, as a way to connect with our loved ones. Our text chains were consumed with Tiger King, Bri...
22 April 2022 /markets /predictions
Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter
Gold has long been revered as an asset that’s at its strongest when global economies enter a difficult period, but is this really still the case? In the 21st Century, investors have seen a range of strong sustained rallies throughout many growth stocks that are faster to rebound from market crashes. So where’s the best place to invest? Although g...
22 April 2022 /markets
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
FinTech is the widely used term denoting all the technologies, tools and software apps facilitating financial transactions and management. From simple mobile banking apps to investment and stock apps to insurance apps to payment gateways and mobile wallets to cryptocurrencies, all come under the broad umbrella term of fintech. The global FinTech ...
22 April 2022 /people /markets Fintech
Abhimanyu Toor Managing Director at Royal Park Partners
Fintech investment and innovation in emerging markets has long been trending upwards, but 2021 was the year it exploded. African fintech broke the $1 billion funding barrier, a feat that the rest of the continent’s tech sector is yet to achieve combined, with $1.6 billion invested across 153 deals. Elsewhere, LATAM saw greater year-on-year fundin...
21 April 2022 /startups /markets Fintech World
Daire Ferguson CEO at AvaTrade
Trading has the potential to be incredibly lucrative. Whether you’re trading stocks, commodities, forex, or cryptocurrencies, all these financial markets offer the potential for explosive growth. However, it can be challenging to assess which direction the market will move in, especially when it comes to executing short-term trades where unknown f...
19 April 2022 /wealth /markets Personal Finance
Jimmy Huang STRATEGY & SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING at DUCO
Digital assets bring some unique operational challenges. Even crypto-native firms find themselves needing to bridge the technology gap between fiat and crypto systems. How can financial institutions and crypto-native firms ensure the seamless flow of data across their organisations? Mike Walsh, Director of Institutional Operations at BlockFi and Da...
14 April 2022 /crypto /markets Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Ian Coupland Propositions Manager at Experian
All marketers will know the frustration of customer databases that do not align. When planning global campaigns, the answer is redefining key customers and using global tools to understand and target them. The inconvenient truth about the insight brands use to target global audiences is that, just like local marketing teams, it speaks different lan...
13 April 2022 /people /markets Marketing in Financial Services
Alistair Catto Managing Director at Beyond
Digital technologies are revolutionising the Asset Management industry. From the development of digital first customer journeys to the automation of critical back-office functions, the influence of digital is now being felt across every aspect of these organisations. It’s no surprise why, KPMG report that between 2017 and 2020, digitally mature or...
12 April 2022 /wealth /markets Trends in Financial Services
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