Francesco Fulcoli Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Flagstone
From May 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority is bringing in sweeping changes to how payment and e-money firms protect customer funds. These reforms, published in PS25/12, are aimed at fixing weaknesses that have led to big losses when firms failed, in some cases, customers got back less than half of what they were owed. Why now? The payments an...
11 August 2025 /payments /regulation Fintech
Shailendra Prajapati Associate AI Engineer at Compunnel Inc.
In a striking and unprecedented move, the Trump administration has imposed a cumulative 50% tariff on Indian goods, officially attributing it to India’s ongoing purchase of Russian crude oil amid geopolitical tensions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While the tariff aims to penalize India for these imports, a closer and more comprehensive ...
11 August 2025 /regulation /markets
Sam Boboev Founder at Fintech Wrap Up
Shopify is betting big that conversational AI agents will become the new storefronts of the internet – and it’s rolling out some ambitious tools to make that happen. If phrases like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Global Catalog sound like sci-fi jargon, fear not. In this deep dive, we’ll break down Shopify’s Storefront AI Agent strategy, why it ...
10 August 2025 /payments
Shanice Octavia Marketing Associate at Fly Fairly
In 2025, crypto payments are no longer a fringe option for travel bookings. A growing share of travelers are using digital assets to pay for flights, hotels, and experiences. This shift is not evenly spread across age groups. Gen Z is leading the change, with adoption rates significantly higher than millennials and older demographics. The Gen Z Di...
09 August 2025 /crypto /markets
Debasish Mishra GTM at Truffles AI
Credit risk isn’t slow because your model is bad. It’s slow because numbers get retyped multiple times before anyone decides. Clinical studies put manual entry error rates between 0.04% and 6.5% per field, with a well-cited pathology dataset averaging 2.8%-and that’s before those figures get copied into a memo or another system. Multiply that acro...
09 August 2025 /ai /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Steve Bradford Senior Vice President EMEA at SailPoint
NIS2 may have been in force since October 2024 but as of July 2025, only 14 out of the 27 EU Member States had transposed the directive into national law. NIS2 was initially introduced to compel providers of essential services, such as healthcare, energy, finance and transport, to enhance their cybersecurity resilience. Yet, for many organisation...
08 August 2025 /regulation /identity Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Kiran Komma Senior Domain Consultant at Tata Consutlancy Services
The transition to T+1 settlement is gaining traction globally and the focus shifted to Europe after successful transition to T+1 settlement in US, Canada, and few other countries in May 2024. UK, European Union (EU) and Switzerland announced plans to move to T+1 settlement simultaneously on October 11, 2027 and a harmonized transition ...
08 August 2025 /regulation /markets
Sebastien Marchon CEO at Rydoo
After more than 10 years in the European tech scene, first as a founder and now as a scale-up leader, I’ve seen both sides of the startup journey. At Rydoo, we started with a clear vision and a commitment to solving real challenges for businesses. We learned that success is shaped far more by hard-won lessons than by luck. Luck is only a small par...
08 August 2025 /payments /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Key takeaways from the Netherlands and Germany By Carsten Stöcker: "Regulatory Backbone — EUBW supports eIDAS 2.0, GDPR, CSRD, and data space frameworks, ensuring verifiable business identities and access control. Cybersecurity & Cyber Warfare Resilience — Strengthens Zero Trust security, mitigating risks of fraud, identity theft, and c...
08 August 2025 /retail /identity Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Ankur Rawat Director – Banking Products and Solutions at Newgen Software
Introduction The most destructive risks are those that happen in our blind spots, unnoticed until the damage is done. This reality has become increasingly grim for financial services. Institutions face rising penalties for misconduct while facing an explosion of new threats from evolving regulatory frameworks to sophisticated cyber attacks. In thi...
08 August 2025 /ai
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