1376 Results from 2022
Greg Woolf CEO at Fiverity
While the massive financial cost of digital fraud is broadly understood – AFCE estimates that 5% of revenue across industries is lost to fraud – there’s less awareness regarding how this theft funds criminal activity worldwide. The Digital Fraud and Organized Crime Connection The fact that only 5-15% of synthetic loan applications are caught by leg...
09 March 2022 /security /crime Fintech
Uldis Teraudkalns CEO at Nexpay
Compliance remains a huge headache for crypto operators and buyers. We simply have to get to grips with it in 2022. The picture was not pretty in 2021. Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, was investigated by the U.S. Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service, trying to get to grips with potential money laundering. Authoritie...
09 March 2022 /regulation /crypto
Retired Member
While gender representation has certainly seen an overall improvement in the world of work over the past few years, the question remains whether it has had an impact in business leadership yet. Recent data shows that across the FTSE 100, there are three times more female employees today compared to ten years ago, up from 12.5% to 39.1% over the
09 March 2022 /people /inclusion Women in Technology
The moment has arrived for banks and fintech to pay their debts – environmental debts – after years of collecting them. With sustainability being one of the most essential aspects of strategy and concern, many of them have evolved into ESG. What do they, and we as customers, need to do to ultimately care for our most precious resource: the Earth? ...
09 March 2022 /sustainable Fintech
Kristian Gjerding Chief Executive Officer at CellPoint Digital
The video game industry is one of the largest and most lucrative sectors around, bringing in $162.32 billion in 2020 alone. Yet, payments technology within the gaming space still lags behind its contemporaries. While retailers who sell video games, both specialists like GAME and broader eCommerce stores like Amazon, offer a wide range of alternati...
09 March 2022 /payments /markets Fintech
Lior Lamesh Co-Founder and CEO at GK8
If there is one thing we can expect from 2022, it’s that banks will continue to size up the blockchain space, the same space they were once so eager to avoid. Another seeming inevitability is that the blockchain ecosystem will continue to grow, with more tokens, projects, and services taking off. Put two and two together, and you get dozens—dozen...
08 March 2022 /wholesale /crypto
Harriet Christie Chief Operating Officer at Mirrorweb
2021 was a major year for cryptocurrency. We witnessed all-time-highs and steep plummets, but one clear trend amongst the volatility is that public discussion on the topic reached hitherto unseen levels. This was fueled by such diverse factors as bitcoin upgrades, NFT artwork, China’s September ban, and Elon Musk’s SNL antics. The spotlight has c...
07 March 2022 /regulation /crypto Trends in Financial Services
Introduction Consumption taxes are a major source of revenue income for governments. If you purchase something from a grocery nearby it is likely that you will pay tax on that purchase. As you would expect, consumption taxes are not uniform across the globe. For example, 27% and 31% of the overall revenue comes from the consumption tax for Fra
07 March 2022
When starting a business, the culture you want to create is likely to be one of the first things you talk about; it’s an essential ingredient in building a team of people who hold the same principles and will work to achieve common goals. But it’s all too easy to let that culture slip down the priority list as your business grows. Kristian Gjerdin...
07 March 2022 /payments /people Fintech
Ilman Shazhaev Founder, CEO at Farcana Metaverse
While many projects like to pitch the metaverse as the new way to experience gaming, it’s a place for so much more. First, the metaverse developers aim to create a virtual landscape meant to replicate the real world. Concerts, promotional events, hangouts, and all kinds of interactions can all occur in the space, giving easy access to experiences ...
07 March 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
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