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Peter Larsson

Peter Larsson Business Eeveloper - Europe at Tietoevry Banking

Nordic payments evolving

One year ago, I posted an article What’s next for Nordic payments? Rise of real-time that is cross Nordic border – the P27 initiative that now has become a de facto infrastructure with a real plan going forward. Even further, Lars Sjögren (CEO@P27) states that there is no plan B! In this work, there are multiple parallel streams to gain traction...

/payments /wholesale SEPA and European Payments

Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Neobanks should find their niche to improve their profitability

The last 5 years dozens of so-called neo- or challenger banks (according to Exton Consulting 256 neobanks are in circulation today) have disrupted the banking landscape, by offering a fully digitized (cfr. "tech companies with a banking license"), very customer-centric, simple and fluent (e.g. possibility to become client and open an acc...

/retail /inclusion Fintech

Daire Ferguson

Daire Ferguson CEO at AvaTrade

Social trading: the latest way to trade?

As of 2019, the average daily social media usage of internet users worldwide amounted to 144 minutes per day, up from 142 minutes in the previous year. Given the whirlwind year that 2020 has been, with so many people stuck at home, it seems likely that the most recent data will be even higher. Social media provides a useful way for us to keep in c...

/markets /predictions Trends in Financial Services

Ivan Kot

Ivan Kot Solution Consultant at Itransition

The Basic Dos of Service Level Agreements

Though service level agreements (SLAs) have proved their importance for business reputation and project success, many IT vendors still doubt that SLAs have any relevance for them. Meanwhile, IT consultants believe that SLAs are an absolute necessity for delivering impeccable service. In this post, we will discuss why SLAs are necessary and review t...

/devops /startups Business Knowledge for IT

Paul Shumsky

Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur

FinTech 2021: 20 Articles for FinTech Experts

As the new year approaches it is a great time to recap 2020 outcomes, review market activity and expert predictions for 2021 to tailor the strategy accordingly. This year was full of unpredicted events with the pandemic and lockdown as major ones that had a strong influence on the financial industry. In this list, we summarized 20 recommendable ar...

/covid-19 /predictions Digital Banking Trends

Nazar Korshivskyi

Nazar Korshivskyi Legal Counsel at Solid

Merchants & Acquirers: Data Protection Roles

GDPR. I bet you may have heard this abbreviation previously. Two years in, this European data protection regulation has become well-known for its hefty fines, new obligations and a broad geographical scope not limited to the EU. But is the GDPR applied correctly? In practice to date, there are still lots of questions and pitfalls. One of the first...

/payments /regulation Data Protection Act Issues

Akhil Rao

Akhil Rao Director at Nth Exception

The Importance Of Data in A Payment And Why Is The Switch Over To ISO 20022 Is So Significant?

The main reason to switch is that ISO 20022 payments messages carry much richer information than the redundant SWIFT MT messages and other legacy formats commonly used today. Also, the information in an ISO 20022 message can be grouped together based on common data components from different payment methods and can be further reused, resulting in i...

/payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Domile And

Domile And Sustainable Finance, Impact Investing at Cyan Reef

ESG after COVID-19

ESG awareness has been growing slowly in the past decade, however in the past couple of years there has been a significant shift in the uptake of ESG investing, talks about the ESG philosophies and companies’ fiduciary duty to adopt ESG principles. There is still much more to be done and achieved, but today there is already a wider focus on ESG, ad...

/sustainable /covid-19 Financial Risk Management

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Why is Bitcoin Heading Towards New Historical Maximums?

The most notable drivers behind Bitcoin’s ride above the level of $20,000 are the new COVID-19 pandemic and the motive force of the trend. Additionally adding to it was the US presidential elections that ended with Joe Biden’s victory. Let’s take a closer look at all of these, starting with COVID-19. The first coronavirus wave back in the spring of...

Cyril Lalo

Cyril Lalo CEO at ellipse Inc.

Maximize PSD2’s SCA Exemptions

Risk of over €100 billion in lost sales (1) Surge of CNP fraud in other regions of the world without SCA Focus on qualifying transactions within exemption categories Since 2015 Merchants and payment card Issuers have been grappling with the impact of proposed new regulations from the European Banking Authority (“EBA”). The latest release of regu

/payments /regulation Dynamic Card Security Code, CNP & eCommerce Forum

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