749 Results from /predictions
Katherine Chan CEO at Juice
In 2025, scaling a business requires more than ambition—it demands precision. Founders are operating in a climate shaped by persistent inflation, tighter margins, and increasingly complex supply chains. While UK inflation eased to 2.6% in March (ONS, 2025), the cumulative impact of high input costs and shifting trade dynamics is still being felt ...
14 May 2025 /startups /predictions Fintech innovation and startups
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 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Agne Klimaviciene Fintech Lead at Invest Lithuania
The Lithuanian Fintech sector has come a long way since it took its first decisive steps into becoming a globally renowned hub around the time of Brexit in 2016. Companies needed a jurisdiction to keep serving companies in the European Union, and Lithuania took this opportunity seriously. After all, every crisis, even a rupture of long-standing e
14 May 2025 /markets /predictions
Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank
As we stand on the precipice of a new era in global finance, where technological innovation, regulatory harmonization, and geopolitical realignments are redrawing the contours of the international monetary system, a critical question arises: Can offshore banking survive the tectonic shifts redefining global financial architecture? The short answe
11 May 2025 /regulation /predictions Trends in Financial Services
Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design
For years, traditional banks built their reputations on physical branches and face-to-face customer relationships. But today, they face an existential challenge: nimble Fintech startups are emerging on a global scale, offering convenience, efficiency and mobile reach that simply can’t be matched by local branches alone. Like the shift from local n...
06 May 2025 /retail /predictions Innovation in Financial Services
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 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In today’s hyperconnected digital economy, no company is an island. Businesses thrive when they become part of a broader ecosystem—and APIs are the glue that holds these ecosystems together. APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are like digital Lego, enabling companies to exchange data and services in a standardized, automated way. When well-
28 April 2025 /startups /predictions API
Anton Chashchin Founder & CEO at N7 Capital
As for now, artificial intelligence is not simply an arms race. Today, it resembles a disordered car racing, where companies accelerate without looking in the rear-view mirror. Microsoft is pouring $100 billion into Open AI, Google is building up Gemini's capacity, and Amazon is betting on Anthropic. The artificial intelligence race is not jus...
28 April 2025 /ai /predictions Artificial Intelligence
Ekaterina Andreeva Software Engineer at Kriya Finance Limited
Startup failure in the UK is lower than in other countries but still remains high at 60%, according to growthrate.com. This means that almost two-thirds of launched businesses have failed in the past three years. Therefore, there are plenty of lessons that can be learned by entrepreneurs who are considering or launching their businesses. In 2023, ...
23 April 2025 /startups /predictions
Samuel Crompton Associate Partner (Banking, Resilience and AI) at IBM
With the initial PRA/FCA compliance milestones behind them, UK banks must now focus on deepening and embedding operational resilience into everyday business practices. The FCA emphasizes that resilience isn’t a one-off exercise but a dynamic, strategic capability. Firms should now transition from mapping important business services and setting imp...
22 April 2025 /regulation /predictions
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