1396 Results from 2021
Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
It is no secret that the global financial technology market is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world. The previous year was marked by the thriving of the Fintech sector with record-breaking investments worldwide: a total of 3472 investment deals were made, worth $55.3 billion. And there is an explanation for that: the traditional banking...
21 January 2021 /payments /markets Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Since its introduction, the rise of financial technology is unstoppable. A lot of consumers and countries around the world are increasingly adopting fintech. And all its products and companies are on a fast rise. Research showed that between 2015 and 2019, consumer use of fintech globally increased a whopping 75% as more and more people prefer thi...
21 January 2021 Fintech
Jesse Chenard CEO at MonetaGo
Fraud is an age-old problem that has plagued every industry since businesses began trading. It takes many forms and guises and is a constantly evolving threat, as the perpetrators adapt to the ever-changing business environment they seek to disrupt. Perhaps one of the most well-known examples of fraud is money laundering. On one end of the spectr...
21 January 2021 /regulation /crime Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Garima Chaudhary Global Head of Solution Eng, FinCrime & Compliance at Oracle
Money Laundering and Its Impact on Wildlife Every year, the illegal wildlife trade—which includes the smuggling, poaching, capture, and collection of endangered species and protected wildlife—threatens many animal species with extinction. Demand for rhino horn—which is more expensive than gold—resulted in the extinction of Africa’s western black r...
20 January 2021 /regulation /crime Financial Services Regulation
Martin Wilson Chief Executive Officer at OneID
This month marks the third anniversary of Open Banking in the UK – or more specifically, three years since Open Banking became a compliance obligation for banks. Back in 2018, users of Open Banking products and services were counted in the tens of thousands and it wasn’t until the beginning of 2020 that this number slowly reached the million-user ...
20 January 2021 /retail /identity Open Banking
Retired Member
To keep up with tech-savvy competitors, accelerate business growth, and gain competitive advantage; forward-thinking enterprises are embracing modern deployment approaches like microservices, serverless, and containers to become more agile to changes. Cloud technology, being the game-changer in the current digital ecosystem, enterprises want to lev...
20 January 2021 /retail /cloud Business Knowledge for IT
“How many days until the next team meeting?”, "Can you set the timer for 15 mins?”, "Can you order a pizza from my favourite café?" How nice it is when someone can practically follow our commands and organize the day. No, we are not talking about any “house elves” but our very own virtual assistants, Alexa and Siri, which are now bec...
20 January 2021 /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Delivery of intuitive, secure, personalised, and frictionless user experiences has long been table stakes in digital commerce, well before the era of COVID-19. As businesses harness the revolutionary power of digital technologies, they have pursued large-scale change to adapt to evolving consumer preferences (some more successfully than others, bu...
19 January 2021 /payments /covid-19 Fintech
Paul Christensen CEO at Previse
The past year has thrown a myriad of challenges at the UK’s National Health Service, from PPE production to logistics and transport, down to staffing hospitals. The healthcare industry faces the second wave of the pandemic and unclear Brexit terms. Suppliers face mounting financial pressure, and now one of the greatest logistical challenges the UK...
19 January 2021 /payments /covid-19 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Laurent Descout CEO at NEO Capital Markets
FX execution and hedging have been a widely mismanaged feature of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for years, with no automation or analytics and high transaction costs. The need for a modern, comprehensive and cost-effective TMS In many regards, treasury management remains hindered by increasingly outdated and fragmented processes. This b...
19 January 2021 /payments /startups Treasury Management
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