Foday Joof Risk Management Officer at Central Bank of The Gambia
Dr Foday Joof, a sustainable finance and economist, raised serious concerns about the continued reliance on interest rate as a tool for fighting inflation in The Gambia and other developing countries. In an exclusive interview with The Voice at the weekend, Dr. Joof describes the approach as 'counter-intuitive' to the structural realities facing mo...
12 mins
Briana Marbury CEO at Interledger Foundation
The opportunities that an open digital economy could create for business and individuals. Things that were once physical and are now digital–information, videos, photos and messages–make their way around the world in seconds. Meanwhile, there’s one thing that still can’t easily transcend borders despite shedding its physical form: money. Unlike ...
33 mins /payments /inclusion Frictionless Payments
Chris Brown CX Consultant, Sector Specialist, Finance at IPI
The advent of a new generation of customers is prompting organisations to rethink their existing operating models. As digital natives, Gen Z brings a whole new set of opportunities for brands to consider, but also a host of new challenges, particularly when it comes to offering the right channel of choice. However, for the financial sector in part...
2 hours /regulation
Dmytro Tymoshchuk CEO at Toolza
For over a decade, we’ve been building businesses in the affiliate marketing space. What began as one service company is now a group of three, operating under a single holding, serving clients across Europe, LATAM, the Middle East, and beyond. In these ten years, we’ve seen affiliate marketing evolve at breakneck speed. But one shift has stood out:...
3 hours
Roberto Garavaglia Independent Advisor at Innovative Payments & blockchain Strategic Advisor
On June 23, 2025, the 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 (𝗘𝗣𝗜) and 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗣𝗔 announced a major collaboration aimed at creating an interoperable, sovereign European ecosystem for digital payments—offering a credible alternative to international card schemes. WHO ARE THE KEY PLAYERS? EuroPA is an alliance of national digita...
4 hours /payments /regulation
Oliver Tearle Head of Technology Innovation at The ai Corporation
The fuel industry is constantly changing, driven by new technology and consumer behaviour shifts. While electric vehicles mark a fundamental change in energy use, the immediate challenges and opportunities for forecourt operations and payment systems continue to evolve. Generative AI (GenAI) is emerging within this dynamic environment as a technol...
23 June 2025 /ai /payments Artificial Intelligence
Katherine Chan CEO at Juice
Small businesses do the heavy lifting, but fair access to finance is still out of reach for many. In 2024, gross lending rose 13% to just over £16 billion (UK Finance). But repayments outpaced new loans, leaving a funding gap that hasn’t closed. Debt levels have more than doubled since before the pandemic (OECD, 2024). Many firms now carry liabilit...
23 June 2025 /startups /inclusion Fintech
Adam Lieberman Chief AI Officer at Finastra
A recent survey of 2,000 CEOs revealed that just 25 per cent believe that their AI projects have achieved ROI. Further to this, the IBM poll revealed that just 16 per cent of AI projects have scaled enterprise wide. In some ways, these are stark findings, but they are not entirely surprising. In financial services, many organizations are still gra...
23 June 2025 /ai Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Diederick Van Thiel Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED at AdviceRobo | IKANO Bank | Ikano Insight
The time is now to focus on AI infrastructure, which will enable companies to scale AI and build a future where humans and multiple AI agents successfully work together. In this blog I share some insights on how we at AdviceRobo do this so you can learn from it and build your own infrastructure of trust with AI. As the world accelerates toward an ...
23 June 2025 /ai /inclusion Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Erica Andersen Marketing at smartR AI
The digital transformation consultants have sold you a lie. They've convinced executives everywhere that before you can even think about AI, you need to embark on a months-long (or years-long) data cleaning odyssey. Clean everything! Standardize everything! Make it perfect! It's expensive, time-consuming, and worst of all—it's completely backwards...
23 June 2025 /ai /security Analytics in Banking
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