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Mukund Rao

Mukund Rao Co-founder at muvin

Pocket money apps for teens in 2023...Understanding what’s in store in the new year

The year 2022 saw digitization cementing its roots further, which in turn continued to transform its financial industry and saw new-age banking emerging. The velocity of digital banking and contactless payments in the country ensued a subsequent shift towards wallets, contactless cards, digital payment apps and varied other financial products. ...

/predictions Fintech

Brian Montgomery

Brian Montgomery Senior Director, International Finance at Workday

Don’t risk poor alignment between finance and IT hampering success

It’s clear that organisations across the UK and Ireland (UK&I) have made exceptional progress when it comes to digital finance transformation. According to a new Workday report, almost half (49%) of all organisations across both countries have developed and deployed a digital finance strategy. This must be celebrated. The digital transformati...

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Retired Member 

Beyond Consumer Duty: How customer experience excellence will separate leaders from laggards

The new Consumer Duty regulation from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has instigated a period of great change within the financial sector, requiring financial services institutions (FSIs) – from insurers and financial advisors to payment services and technology providers – to comply with a much higher and exacting standard of customer c...

/regulation /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Nick Green

Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd

What does the FCA credit information interim report mean for fintechs?

The FCA wants to see a higher quality of credit information and is taking steps to improve the sector. In light of this, the FCA recently published the long-awaited interim findings from its credit information market study. But is the report addressing the key challenges originally identified? What’s fallen through the cracks so far? And is the fu...

/regulation /retail Fintech

Pavlo Farb

Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs

Security audit of smart contracts: verifying DeFi

Once deployed, a lot of smart contracts cannot be easily changed. So, it would be wise to take a close look at potential weaknesses, exploits, and built-in mitigations when it’s not too late for changes. But look beyond the code. Smart contracts are immutable pieces of code that perform certain operations in blockchain networks or link different bl...

/security /crypto DeFi

Matthew Nassau

Matthew Nassau Business Architect – Treasury & Capital Markets at Finastra

Be Brilliant at Basics, like FX

Looking at today’s headlines which cite a seemingly spontaneous global resurgence in inflation, spiralling energy costs, reactive central bank rate hikes and disrupted mortgage markets, one could be forgiven for not associating the current climate with market efficiencies. It seems each day reveals a juddering new record high or record low in some ...

/markets Capital Markets Technology

Gabriel Hopkins

Gabriel Hopkins Chief Product Officer at Ripjar

Wirecard: Inside and Outside the Tsunami

There’s no shortage of articles in the press this week and last about the start of the prosecution of Wirecard executives for fraud, but how is it possible that such a large-scale fraud took so long to emerge? I first came across Wirecard in 2002. As has been detailed in Dan McCrum’s excellent book – they were an intriguing set of individuals. I ...

/payments /crime Exposing Financial Crime

Jeremy Takle

Jeremy Takle Founder and CEO at Pennyworth

Why banking needs a financial time machine

Many people wish they had a better sense of their financial future. Worried they'll find out too late they're less financially comfortable than they had hoped. What if, instead, they had access to a time machine? A technology that could help them see into their future and, if needed, go back and make changes in the present. This is our vision for...

/retail /startups Disruption in Retail Banking

Zandra Moore

Zandra Moore Chief Executive Officer at Panintelligence

The Fintech Buyers Guide to Business Intelligence (BI) Software: A 9-point checklist

The idea of using data to drive better decision-making is well-established. But the traditional approach – centered around Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools – relies on specialist software and highly trained teams. This creates bottlenecks in the flow of information. Even though traditional BI tools have improved over the past several ye...

/cloud

Sarp Demiray

Sarp Demiray 

Sarp Demiray on Digital Banking in 2023: The Digitisation Train Won’t Wait

The adage that nothing is more permanent than change has been more applicable to the financial sector than ever in recent years. The digital change train has already left the platform and is about to accelerate, but it is still possible to catch up. This is exactly what is expected in 2023 in the field of digital banking: progress, growth and adap...

/retail /markets Banking and Lending Solutions

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