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What is the ELK Stack? The ELK stack is an acronym used to describe a stack that comprises of three popular projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. Often referred to as Elasticsearch, the ELK stack gives you the ability to aggregate logs from all your systems and applications, analyze these logs, and create visualizations for application an...
26 December 2022 /cloud Fintech World
Back in July, I predicted that finance leaders would start to see PayTo make a change in the way you take payments in six to 12 months. Almost exactly six months later, GoCardless has become the first international payments company to connect to the New Payments Platform and accept transactions via PayTo. PayTo is the new way for merchants and b...
23 December 2022 /payments /predictions Frictionless Payments
With over 14 million British adults owning a digital only bank account, the need for access to digital assets has never been greater. Digital asset rates are higher than ever, and both banks and neobanks (online banks without a physical high street presence) face a clear choice—adapt to customer needs or struggle to keep up in a quickly digitalis...
21 December 2022 /payments /crypto Fintech
The National Retail Federation (NRF) forecasts that 2022 holiday retail sales will grow between 6% and 8% over last year, and could reach $960 billion. According to Adobe, U.S. shoppers spent $35.27 billion online overall during Cyber Week, the period from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. That's a 4% gain over last year at a time when U.S. infla...
20 December 2022 /payments /predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Innovation is enabling new types of payments and creating a truly dynamic ecosystem. Yet in order to create a market where new schemes like account-to-account payments can compete, regulation must play a central role. Payments modernisation is a hot topic right now—and for good reason. New and innovative digital payment technologies and instruments...
16 December 2022 /payments /regulation Fintech
We have been applying analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to fraud prevention solutions for over 20 years. Over this time, the financial services sector has completely transformed, with firms seeking to move away from siloed and disjointed datasets, rapidly digitising and turning to the cloud. But how has this impac...
14 December 2022 /security /crime Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
The digital revolution is showing no signs of slowing. Today, more and more industries, including real estate, music, healthcare, banking, and even gold and silver are adopting digitization to meet user needs. In modern society, the transition to a fully-digital world is well underway. In the next year, it’s forecasted that 93 percent of people wi...
14 December 2022 /payments /crypto Fintech
Transaction banking needs bringing into the 21st century. By starting with core banking platforms, banks can rethink how they operate for good, building closer ties with their clients. This blog outlines five key trends: 1. Batch is a burden Consumers expect to check their bank account balances in real time; corporate treasurers want the same fo...
14 December 2022 /cloud /predictions Treasury Management
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...
13 December 2022 /regulation /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
APIs provide rapid and scalable applications for banking, payments, and other businesses that require identity verification for AML and KYC compliance. In most countries, some firms are obliged by law to comply with AML and KYC. When such firms authenticate their consumers, APIs may provide a faster, simpler, and less expensive way to comply while ...
13 December 2022 /identity /crime Biometrics
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