1375 Results from 2022
Piers Marais Chief Product Officer at Currencycloud
Decentralisation is the buzzword in fintech at the moment – whether that’s sharing data more widely, such as with open banking, or directly using decentralised systems, as with the blockchain. Decentralised finance (DeFi) is one of the latest developments, aimed at democratising access to finance by removing the middlemen that control the flow of ...
17 November 2022 /payments /crypto Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Retired Member
Since the creation of the Mesopotamian shekel, the first known currency minted 5,000 years ago, some medium for exchanging goods and services has existed. People like money so much that our world revolves around its creation and exchange. In 2008, a new currency entered the financial lexicon. This innovation in monetary exchange was based on a pap...
16 November 2022 /regulation /crypto
Ankur Rawat Director – Banking Products and Solutions at Newgen Software
Trade finance continues to serve as an essential enabler for global trade growth. The expected growth of the trade finance market was valued at $63.5B in 2019 and is expected to grow to $79.4B in 2026! The trade finance market has recently witnessed a shift, primarily driven by pandemic disruptions, technology, globalization, and real-time access ...
15 November 2022
Over the past few years, the financial services sector has undergone a complex regulatory evolution. Even past the usual flow of regulation change and shifting reporting standards, there are two key trends driving this change, and which put firms at risk of falling behind if not grappled with effectively. The first trend is the ever-growing inves...
15 November 2022 /regulation /sustainable Financial Services Regulation
Martin Bradbury Regional Director, Financial Services UK&I at Dynatrace
Financial services providers operate some of the most critical systems that both consumers and businesses interact with on a daily basis. Everything from buying a coffee to paying an invoice or taking out a mortgage is dependent on having continuous access to a bank and its services. It is vital that these services are resilient and always availab...
15 November 2022 /regulation /cloud Banking Regulations
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Cryptocurrency transactions became extremely popular in 2022 due to the fact that they were incredibly fast and secure. Even though there was a big downfall in prices as well as profits, people still found crypto transactions to be worth their while. The main reason for this is that cryptocurrencies are not regulated by any government or financial...
15 November 2022 /crypto
Tim Annis UK Managing Director at Bluechain
In the last two years, there has been a considerable change in payments. The rapid digital transformation that Covid caused across all industries has been particularly evident in payments as supporting new ways to engage with their customers became an urgent need. Over 23 million people in the UK alone have stopped using coins, a third of transact...
15 November 2022 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Luke Mathews Fraud Strategy Manager at The ai Corporation
Fuel fraudsters continue to ‘skim a little off the top’. The post pandemic e-commerce boom has fueled a marked increase in demand for logistics services. As a result, global fuel and fleet markets have expanded their business operations to meet this increased demand. For criminals, this has created a unique opportunity to take advantage of the ‘n...
15 November 2022 /payments /crime Financial Risk Management
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
CBDCs – But WHY? Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) are being researched by central banks and governments of 87 countries and has already been launched in 11 countries. The key question is: But WHY? What follows is my view of the good, and the evil of CBDCs. CBDCs: the GOOD For you and for other people, the good things bought by CBDCs include...
14 November 2022 /wholesale /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
David Ritter Director, Financial Services Strategy at CI&T
There’s an anonymous quote that circulates social media, often used to lament today’s ‘Age of Undiscovery’ and the drab lack of exploration, and excitement, within: “Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the galaxy.” This may be true in the physical sense. Yet it’s easy to forget our generations are the first to navigate mul...
14 November 2022 /regulation /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
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