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Lawrence Byers

Lawrence Byers Product Manager at Acquired.com

Open Banking: Has the penny dropped for UK lenders?

Fueled by the pandemic, the lending landscape has changed drastically in recent years. Amongst other things, the meteoric rise of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services and increased up-take of online banking has resulted in consumers who now, in addition to demanding seamless and embedded experiences when engaging with financial products and services,...

/payments /markets Open Banking

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Why is user experience important to the enterprise?

All enterprises, regardless of their industry, are seeking to maximise the output of their efforts whilst reducing the effort in creating the output, basically, creating ‘more bang for their buck’, which is why the inefficient, difficult-to-use and expensive-to-own applications they commission are such a bone of contention. But, why historically d...

Phil Venables

Phil Venables VP, CISO, Google Cloud at Google

Security Is Mission Critical For FinTech Resilience

Financial services organisations are facing a variety of challenges from increasing the pace of innovation to meet customer needs in a rapidly digitising world to maintaining high levels of security — all while sustaining regulatory compliance with new and emerging requirements. As digital becomes the primary channel for global enterprises, resili...

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Climate change risk management – whose job is it anyway?

Well, the answer is obvious isn’t it – it is “EVERYBODY’s, you would say. There lies the difficulty. One of the first management lesson’s is never to make any job “everybody’s” as it has two risks inherently. Either it becomes everybody’s and nobody’s at the same time, resulting in an impasse or the boundaries and the gaps in-between one group to ...

/regulation /sustainable Trends in Financial Services

Anna Kuzmina

Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech

Pay-ins and Payouts for the international businesses working with Russia: crisis FAQ from Bank 131

Updated: 02/03/2022 at 16.20 Bank 131 was created to operate in the global digital economy. We have served and still serve as a bridge between businesses and people wherever they are. At this crisis time both businesses and people need help. Bank 131 opens bank accounts for Russian and foreign businesses in rubles, dollars and euros. Accepts payme...

Dexter Penn

Dexter Penn CEO at Kalgera

Fears of a spike in vulnerability on the anniversary of the FCA guidance

This week marks a year since the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued guidance to financial institutions for the fair treatment of vulnerable customers. The aim of the guidance is to encourage banks and building societies to better understand the needs of vulnerable customers so that they can better serve them. Ahead of the anniversary, we con...

/regulation /inclusion RegTech

George Peters

George Peters Senior Consultant at Be UK

Avoiding Automation Rabbit Holes

How to prevent running into common automation delivery challenges and misconceptions Author: George Peters This is the second and final blog of this two part series on end-to-end automation projects from Be | Shaping the Future UK’s (Be UK) experience. The focus of this blog will be on the common challenges and misconceptions when delivering an aut...

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Resumption of Ecommerce With White label NFT marketplace

White label NFT marketplace can now be the positive trigger to take up your ecommerce business into the emerging digitized, creative economy The vivid growth of NFTs, crypto assets and digital currencies in the economy, the growth rate kept soaring in the space with almost a quarter percent increase than the appraisal at the second quarter of 202...

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Andrew Lawton

Andrew Lawton Founder & CEO at Reskube Ltd

Deadline looming for financial services firms to demonstrate operational resilience

31st March 2022 represents an important regulatory deadline for financial services firms in the UK. Last March, the Bank of England and FCA released their Operational Resilience Policy Statement. It requires that, by this date, UK financial services companies must have demonstrated that they have identified their important business services, and a...

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Fraud prevention in the new SCA era

A new payment regulation, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), will soon be mandatory in the UK. In March 2022 this once-in-a-generation change will come into force for UK retailers, and bring with it the potential to massively disrupt an enterprise or to push an enterprise ahead. SCA will undoubtedly be a vital pillar of protection for merchants...

/payments /regulation Business

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