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Guy Melamed

Guy Melamed CEO at Exberry

New Year’s Resolutions for Market Infrastructures in 2024

Traditional financial infrastructure providers are increasingly considering upgrading their trading systems to align with modern times. This is both based upon strategic developments taking place over the past couple of years (Microsoft investing £1.5bn in LSEG, Nasdaq collaborating with Amazon for cloud infrastructure, and Google injecting $1bn i...

/inclusion /markets Capital Market Technology

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor CEO at AccessPay

Corporate Payments in 2024: APP fraud, ISO 20022-readiness and generative AI

The start of a new year is a natural time to consider what lies ahead. Here, we look at four key themes in corporate payments: Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud, operational resilience, generative AI and ISO 20022, and consider what lies in store for 2024. Authorised Push Payment Fraud Combatting APP fraud will be high on the agenda for many orga...

/payments /predictions Finextra site news

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Retired Member 

The Resilience of Credit Unions: Shaping the Future of Consumer Loans

Introduction While credit unions have experienced a slight slowdown in growth, they have proven to be more resistant to market fluctuations compared to banks. Despite facing challenges, credit unions have managed to maintain their share and even make gains in specific sectors. This article explores the recent trends in credit unions' consumer loan...

/payments /markets Banking

Raktim Singh

Raktim Singh Senior Industry Principal at Infosys

Democratized AI

What is Democratized AI: The democratization of artificial intelligence entails universal access to AI. Put simply, open-source datasets and tools, which were created by prominent corporations , require minimal user expertise in artificial intelligence, allowing anyone to construct groundbreaking AI software. The underlying principle of 'Democrat...

/retail /inclusion Artificial Intelligence

Mantvydas Štareika

Mantvydas Štareika CEO at CapitalBox

Alternative sources of finance should support SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, make up 99% of all European companies and are the backbone of the EU economy, as they account for the vast majority of growth in the labor market. Despite that, SMEs are still seriously underfunded, in fact by as much as around €400 billion in the EU alone according to a recent study. The reason is that SM...

/retail /inclusion

Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa

Niklaus Wirth, and How Financial Computing Can Help Save The Planet

More than a few computing luminaries have sadly passed over recently, unsurprising given many pioneers from the fifties, sixties, and seventies reaching end of life. One who caught my eye was Niklaus Wirth who departed this world on New Year's Day. He was a Swiss computer scientist, associated most with ETH Zurich, but he also had sixties Silicon V...

/people /markets Capital Markets Technology

Boris Bialek

Boris Bialek Vice President and Field CTO, Industry Solutions at MongoDB

Transforming Financial Institutions for Quicker Settlement Cycles

On the 28th of May, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States will implement a pivotal change in the securities trading sector: moving to a T+1 settlement cycle. This shift – reducing the settlement period from two business days after the trade date to just one – is a strategic move to mitigate market volatility a...

/regulation /cloud Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Nick Sime

Nick Sime Director of Fraud & Credit Risk Modelling at Jaywing Risk

Risk Model Development – The Next Generation

In the world of financial services where risk management is paramount, we’ve all seen artificial intelligence and machine learning rapidly transforming the landscape. In fact, a recent survey by the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) revealed that 72% of UK financial firms are already using or developing AI/ML applications, ...

/retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Craig Farley

Craig Farley Head of Solution Consulting at IPI

Customer Experience trends in 2024: meeting evolving expectations

The landscape of brand-customer relationships has shifted dramatically over the past few years, and there’s no question that customers today wield unprecedented power in this space, demanding more than ever from the financial brands with which they interact. Indeed, expectations are at an all-time high, particularly in the customer experience (CX)...

/predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Janine Grainger

Janine Grainger CEO at Easy Crypto

Crypto ETFs have been approved - a simple guide to what it means for investing in crypto and beyond…

Listening to the news, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s approval of a Bitcoin spot exchange traded fund (ETF) has widely been lauded as ‘the legitimisation’ of Bitcoin and other cryptos. One news outlet even referred to it as “The adults finally stepping into the room…” OR… is it simply a matter of them finally catching up? Bitc...

/crypto /markets

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