1396 Results from 2021
Paul Shumsky Founder at @Finpace.tech
Demand for digital banking services, already rising steeply before the COVID-19 pandemic set in last year, was given even greater impetus during 2020 and is likely to have gained years of ground in what has been an extraordinary year. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing requirements meant customers who were not already familiar with operating...
18 January 2021 /retail /predictions 5G Payments Schemes and Strategies 2020 - 2035
Michael Pearson Founder at Clarus Investments
Some sources, such as CB Insights, are reporting that venture capital investment in fintech has remained robust during the pandemic. After an initial dip in the second quarter of 2020, funding levels recovered quite rapidly with some large, later stage funding rounds driving the market. However, first round investment for companies trying to get s...
18 January 2021 /startups /covid-19 Fintech
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
While backtesting often gets ignored by beginner traders, it’s a very viable approach that can produce unexpected results when applied correctly. Of course, it’s not a magic wand that can automatically solve all problems you’re having in your current trading situation, but it can significantly improve your chances for the future. This is especiall...
18 January 2021 /markets Post-Trade Forum
Retired Member
No-code platforms allows programmers and non-programmers to create application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of tradition computer programming. (Source: Wikipedia) No-code platforms have seen tremendous growth in the recent years and Forrester predicts that the market will grow from $3.8 billion in 2017 to $2...
17 January 2021 /payments Fintech
Andreas Hobbelin Head of AML & FCP at ZTL PAYMENT SOLUTION
To answer this, one most likely need to go deep on all financial institutions (FI), however, what if one would ask some simple questions to begin with? Lets start with the following; Are you screening your clients against US sanction lists? Most would answer Yes Are you screening your client’s counterparties against US sanction lists...
15 January 2021 /regulation /crime Trends in Financial Services
Jonathan Westley Chief Data Officer, Experian UK & EMEA at Experian
Covid-19 has caused so much disruption and completely changed the way we live, work and play. While in many ways it has pressed pause on our lives, in other ways the pandemic has initiated G-force inducing acceleration. Nowhere is this more evident than in our appreciation of the value of data. Data has shaped our response to this crisis at a globa...
15 January 2021 /covid-19 Data Management 101
Collectively, neobanks have secured billions of dollars of funding to rapidly scale at all costs, however strategic priorities are now changing. There are currently 250+ neobanks live worldwide, with dozens of banking apps close on their heels and gearing up to launch. But how many of these businesses are profitable today, and how many will ev...
15 January 2021 /retail
Adrian Pollard Trader and Crypto Enthusiast at ISTANEX
Starting a fintech business is now free due to open-source crypto technology and exchange software The crypto technology is getting expotentially more powerful than traditional fintech tech Building with the technology is getting easier as more blockchains become standardized and widely adopted People are building a preference for crypto exchage
15 January 2021 /startups /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
Now that we have seen a close to 2020, let’s take a look at foreign investment changes around the globe. Following on from my 2nd installment in September, foreign investment regulations have continued to tighten in the more democratic nations and loosen in those less so. In November, the UK government introduced the National Security and Invest...
14 January 2021 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
This week, I read an interesting paper from Newgen Software about the application of “low-code thinking” to their business process automation domain. The paper highlighted the critical need for speed in a modern enterprise in order to respond to strategic and competitive threats. It suggests that the speed with which an organisation gets from a st...
14 January 2021 /payments /retail Banking Architecture
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