1397 Results from 2021
Vincent Choi CEO and founder at Pomelo Pay
The UK is finally keeping up on contactless payments. Despite London being a world capital for financial technology, Britain has lagged other nations when it comes to some key elements of frictionless consumer finance. Even the increased limit of £45 for a single contactless payment, which was introduced in April 2020 after the pandemic hit, was lo...
15 March 2021 /payments /regulation
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
In a recent study by the FCA on banking customer satisfaction, challenger banks Monzo and Starling ranked top of the leaderboard for overall service quality, scoring 86% and 84% respectively. Traditional banks, including some of the UK’s largest financial service providers, performed less well. During the course of the pandemic, customers have ha...
15 March 2021 /retail /cloud Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design
Almost 60% of all working-age Americans have no retirement savings. Four in ten adults couldn’t cover a $400 emergency expense in the U.S.* Adults struggle to manage their finances, but they want to see their kids grow up as successful people with good financial habits. At the same time, 49% of parents don’t know how to discuss finances with kids ...
15 March 2021 /people /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
King Leung Global Head of Financial Services and FinTech at InvestHK
An international fintech hub characterised by a diverse, resilient, and dynamic landscape, Hong Kong is a deep market on the rise with a large number of financial institutions and fintech start-ups looking to rapidly scale-up. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hong Kong fintech sector bucked the global trend as companies continued to grow, rai...
15 March 2021 /people Fintech
Yaroslav Kuflinski AI/ML Observer at Iflexion
While the pandemic will certainly come to an end at some point, the work trends it gave rise to are here to stay. From SMBs to industry giants like Microsoft, organizations have realized that working remotely from anywhere can be far more productive than working in offices. For example, HBR research reveals that during the lockdown employees spend...
14 March 2021 /people Business Knowledge for IT
Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
The emergence of digital technologies and communication channels is pushing ahead a change in paradigm within the fundamental concept of marketing. Marketing consists in creating value to customers in a way that it benefits organization and shareholders. Based on this fundamental understanding, marketing leaders try a vаriеtу оf diffеrеnt mаrkеti...
12 March 2021 /markets Marketing in Financial Services
Retired Member
Dear Friends, Are crypto exchanges a global or local phenomenon? And how should investors evaluate them? I decided to pursue this question because crypto exchanges are bending the usual conventions around venture capital investing. First, it is very difficult to draw a comparison with traditional exchanges and brokerages. These are mostly local. O...
12 March 2021 /payments /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Steve Grob Founder at Vision57
The trouble with Trading Technology Today Imagine for a moment that the cell phone in your pocket was twenty years old or the console you've just got your kids for Christmas was a Sega Genesis. While retro items like these may appeal to some, it is a sobering thought that much of the USD 100 billion per day trading world is based on similarly aged...
12 March 2021 /cloud /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
In July 2020, a group of sixteen major European banks from five Euro countries announced the launch of the European Payments Initiative (EPI) with the aim to create a unified payment solution for consumers and merchants across Europe. EPI’s stated long-term ambition is to become a new standard means of payment for all transaction types. This includ...
12 March 2021 /payments The future of Payments in Europe
Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
The pandemic has certainly scaled up the demand for digital financial services worldwide, and Latin America is not an exception. But was that true before 2020? Historically, the region had always been challenged economically and politically. A huge mountainous territory and frequent natural disasters neither contributed to rapid growth. Neolibera...
12 March 2021 /retail /markets Trends in Financial Services
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