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Jamel Derdour

Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 - www.transact365.io

Financial Inclusion Through Innovation: Scaling Digital Payments in India

India’s shift toward becoming a global leader in digital payments continues at a rapid pace. UPI, mobile wallets, and fintech platforms have scaled impressively: UPI recorded 18.67 billion transactions worth ₹25.14 trillion in May 2025, averaging 602 million transactions daily. (The Times of India) For FY24–25, UPI handled approximately 186 billio...

/payments /markets Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Paul Quickenden

Paul Quickenden Chief Commercial Officer at Easy Crypto

How to invest like you’re uber rich (even if you’re not!)

Let’s be honest - ‘Invest like the uber rich’ sounds like classic headliner clickbait. But here’s the thing… in a tokenised world, that headline is actually starting to hold up because the old barriers to high-value, long-horizon investing are crumbling fast and blockchain is the earthquake shaking the establishment's foundations. There’s always

/inclusion /crypto

Ben O'Brien

Ben O'Brien Managing Director at Jaywing

What the PRA’s Discussion Paper could mean for mid-tier IRB permissions

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has confirmed that it will publish a Discussion Paper (DP) this summer, aimed at improving access to Internal Ratings Based (IRB) model permissions for residential mortgages among mid-tier banks. The IRB approach, which allows firms to use their own credit risk models to determine capital requirements, rem...

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Paul Holt

Paul Holt EMEA Group Vice President at Digicert

DORA Is Here – Why Global Financial Institutions Must Act Now

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is now very much in play across the EU, setting a new standard for cyber and operational resilience in financial services. While it is a European regulation, its implications are anything but local. Any organisation working with EU-based financial institutions is now part of the DORA conversation, no

/regulation /retail Banking Regulations

Joseph Ibitola

Joseph Ibitola Head of Demand Generation at Flagright

Establishing “Expected Behavior”: Using Median, Standard Deviation and Avg to Detect Suspicious Txns

In AML and fraud monitoring, expected behavior refers to the normal patterns of transactions for a given customer, their typical transfer amounts, frequency of transactions, usual beneficiaries or destinations, etc. Defining this baseline is critical because it enables compliance teams to distinguish routine activity from anomalies. Unusual transa...

/regulation /crime RegTech

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Two Paradigm Shifts: Trust Infrastructure and AI-Agentics

For the past seven years, I have been advocating for faster adoption of organisation wallets to enable verifiable credentials to start streaming through the European Trust Infrastructure (TI). Much of this has been in support of the public–private not-for-profit Findynet co-operative in Finland, and as a co-founder or active contributor in initia...

/ai /identity Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Lars Rottweiler

Lars Rottweiler CTO at Mbanq

Infrastructure for GENIUS-Compliant Stablecoins: Build or Buy?

The GENIUS Act forces a direct decision on any institution that wants to issue, manage, or support stablecoins in the US market: build the required infrastructure from scratch or plug into a provider that will have it in place. Building Means Starting From Zero Building in-house means building everything. That includes KYC, AML, OFAC screening, ...

Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

Could Ethereum ETFs supercharge the next bull run?

Ethereum isn’t grabbing headlines with dramatic price moves - but maybe that’s the point. Beneath the surface, something far more telling is unfolding. Institutional money is quietly pouring into Ethereum ETFs, with inflows crossing $10 billion and climbing fast. It’s the kind of deliberate accumulation that doesn’t move markets overnight - but of...

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Serhii Bondarenko

Serhii Bondarenko Artificial Intelegence at Tickeron

Microsoft Q4 2025 Earnings Conference Call: A Comprehensive Analysis

Introduction On July 30, 2025, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) hosted its fiscal year 2025 fourth-quarter earnings conference call at 5:30 PM ET, led by Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and EVP and CFO Amy Hood. The call provided a detailed overview of the company’s financial performance for the quarter ending June 30, 2025, and offered forward-looking...

/ai /markets Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Vishal Rodage

Vishal Rodage Consulting Director at Tata Consultancy Services

Data Driven Investment Manager - Unlock the value proposition through Data strategy

DATA - A KEY DIFFERENTIATOR IN BUSINESS VALUE GENERATION In today’s fiercely competitive market conditions, investment managers are looking at various ways to differentiate themselves from the competition. Having effective Data Strategy is critical to unlock the power of data that the organisation can harness to its competitive advantage, be it to...

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