Steve Carpenter Chief Operating Officer of North America at Creditsafe
Fraudsters are more creative than ever, and businesses are paying the price. With 41% of companies facing 7 or more fraud cases in just the first eight months of 2024 alone, the question isn't if your organization will be targeted—it's when. Yet, despite this growing threat, many organizations remain unprepared, relying on outdated or insufficient...
5 mins /security /crime
Sanjay Vichare Solution Architect at TCS
ABSTRACT Conversational AI is called Virtual Assistance, which allows free flow communication between user and BOT with help of NLP technology. It evolved over time from simple FAQ to intelligent Virtual Assistance (BOT) with leverage of Gen AI. It focuses on bringing automation towards simple and medium business use cases in Finance Domain and it...
42 mins /ai Digital Contact Center Trend
Ruchi Rathor Founder at Payomatix Technologies
“Finance is no longer a man’s world. It’s a smart world — and smartness has no gender.” A New Power is Shaping Fintech — And It’s Fearlessly Female A fresh wave of fintech innovation is rising — one led by bold, strategic women who are reshaping the future of digital payments with vision, leadership, and deep business acumen. These are not just fo...
4 hours /payments /startups Fintech
Nkahiseng Ralepeli VP of Product: Digital Assets at Absa Bank, CIB.
For years, digital assets carried a whiff of skepticism in traditional finance circles – a perceived “taboo stain” that serious institutions were hesitant to touch. Many remembered the early days of Bitcoin’s wild price swings, high-profile exchange hacks, and regulators sounding alarms. Crypto companies struggled for mainstream respect; a large p...
4 hours /wealth /crypto
Nick Jones CEO at Zumo
Following Trump’s inauguration in January, developments in the digital assets sector have been gathering pace rapidly. The first few months of a busy year have witnessed some major market moves, with US crypto exchange Coinbase, now part of the S&P 500 index, agreeing to buy Dubai’s Deribit for $2.9 billion in the digital asset market’s large...
5 hours /regulation /crypto
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
5 hours /markets /predictions
David Feuer Chief Product Officer at Galileo Financial Technologies
In the early 2000s, Netflix offered Blockbuster an opportunity to integrate its online DVD rental model for $50 million. Blockbuster, bullish on its retail dominance, dismissed the offer, scoffing at the idea that digital and mail-based rentals could compete with its physical footprint. Blockbuster became a relic, while Netflix grew into a $433 bi...
20 hours /cloud Banking
Jonathan Hancock Head of Product & Innovation at The ai Corporation
With a powerful growth engine, today's digital marketplace presents acquirers with the critical challenge of managing high-risk merchants. Success in this arena hinges on a dynamic and adaptable strategy, balancing opportunity with security. The definition of "high-risk" is fluid, constantly reshaped by technological advancements and shi...
22 hours /payments /crime The Payments Business
John Reese Business Analyst | Platform Growth Expert at Hashcodex
Starting a crypto exchange looks super cool, right? Fast cash, big hopes, and the whole future of money in your hands. But let me tell you something… Someone I followed on the internet failed. Not because crypto is bad. But because they didn’t know how to do it the right way. So, I read and learned everything from their experience. If you’re planni...
13 May 2025 /startups /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Aron Alexander Founder and CEO at Runa
Picture a rideshare driver that finishes her day and needs gas money now—not Friday when weekly payouts process. Elsewhere, a digital creator waits three days for payment to clear, forcing him to delay rent. Meanwhile, a global marketplace loses thousands of sellers who migrate to a competitor offering same-day settlement. These moments reveal a f...
12 May 2025 /payments /inclusion
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