1376 Results from 2022
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Although you might have heard a lot of technical jargon when talking about the metaverse, such concepts have been around for a long time through various games. If you are a long-time gamer, the chances are that you might have already experienced some of it before. This blog gives a brief on how and why the metaverse will be a part of the future w
11 February 2022 /crypto Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)
New age technology enables Financial Solutions to be tightly integrated (embedded) across various other segments / industry & Solutions. This embedding of Fintech, enables a non financial player to enhance their proposition and convenience to customers by providing financial solutions that are critical for transactions, sales, revenues & e...
11 February 2022 /retail /startups Embedded Finance
In January this year, TheCityUK, an advocacy group promoting financial and professional services, warned that cyber attacks were “the single biggest risk” businesses face, while research from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) found that one in ten companies had been the victim of a cyber-attack in the last year. Nowhere is this threat more ke...
11 February 2022 /payments /crime Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
When a company chooses the AFC Championship Game to make a big expansion play, you know they mean business. Football fans would have seen WhatsApp's ad comparing sending an SMS with having their mail opened and read by their postman. For US businesses, WhatsApp’s big push to capture more of the domestic market should light a fire under decision ma...
11 February 2022 /predictions
Dennis Van Der Vecht Head of Sales & Blockchain Lead at 10Clouds
Web 3.0 is the third version of the internet, which many tech enthusiasts have been excitedly talking about for years. It’s been described as the ‘decentralized web’ and ‘the semantic web’ and has been spoken about as the potential solution to the current web domination by the so called 'big tech companies.' There are many high hopes placed on We...
11 February 2022 /payments /predictions Business
Sireesh Patnaik Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) at Pennant Technologies
7 Ways Financial Institutions can Overcome Cloud Adoption Challenges in their Lending Operations The lending industry is known for being slow in adopting new technologies while continuing to rely on disparate technologies with outdated user interfaces for laboriously completing tasks. Research shows that 30-40% of lending resources’ time gets used...
11 February 2022 /retail /cloud Banking and Lending Solutions
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
Winter Olympic Games hosted in Beijing 2022 are a big deal. Not the event itself, but the life experience for those inside this guarded COVID-safe bubble. Olympic Village is a very important showcase for the Chinese innovative technologies to be seen and touched by the outsiders since the coronavirus shut access to China for all. (A robot makes a...
11 February 2022 /payments /crypto
Anyone who has been on the London Underground in the past few years cannot have failed to notice the exhortations to invest in BitCoin, or the next big meme coin, as this freedom of information request shows. Social media is awash with celebrities and influencers flogging crypto, something that had already caught the attention of the UK's financi...
10 February 2022 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Alessandro Hatami Managing Partner at Pacemakers.io
Regulators across the globe are keen to regulate the new digital currencies, financial products and exchanges. The recent announcement by the US regulator CFTC (Commodities and Futures Trading Commission) is a recent example. All regulators say that they aim to provide market protection for consumers and reduce risks in the space. Interestingly th...
10 February 2022 /regulation /crypto DeFi
Marten Nelson Co-founder and CEO at M10
Media is buzzing about Web 3.0 and the metaverse. Companies and investors are scrambling to get in on the ground floor and participate in shaping this new iteration of the web. But I think it’s worth exploring some of the unintended consequences of this mass move toward decentralization and what role, if any, traditional financial institutions sho...
10 February 2022 /payments /crypto Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
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