Amey Prabhu Solution Architect & Head of Trade Finance Product at Veefin
When I started off as a developer, there was no distinction between the frontend and the backend code. The coupling was tight, the architecture stateful and the screens where character-mode. Form validations where done through triggers. These triggers were written in C, which in-turn, would connect to DB. The processing logic remained in C. Archit...
04 April 2025 /wholesale
While the core Trade Finance transaction processing workflows have remained largely unchanged for decades, the surrounding ecosystem has undergone significant transformation—and continues to evolve. The fundamental steps of the Documentary Credit process remain intact: the importer applies for a Letter of Credit, the issuing bank processes and issu...
Andrew Abraham Global Managing Director of Data Quality at Experian
In today's data-driven business world, ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data is crucial for making informed decisions and driving growth. Latest research from Experian found the top three priorities for businesses over the next five years are enhancing customer experience and personalisation (49%), implementing technology (48%...
04 April 2025 /regulation /devops
Barley Laing UK Managing Director at Melissa
Bad customer data – databases where customer data is inaccurate, incomplete and inconsistent – causes huge issues for financial institutions. Accurate customer data informs effective customer communications and personalisation. Without it, communications quickly become ineffective, even detrimental to the customer experience, damaging brand reputat...
04 April 2025 /regulation /identity Data Management and Governance
Katherine Chan CEO at Juice
Some lenders are quietly becoming obsolete. In 2025, founders no longer tolerate 6-week approval timelines, rigid credit models, or hidden fees buried in legalese. The pace of business has changed, and the lenders who don’t keep up risk being left behind. This shift isn’t just anecdotal, it’s playing out in the numbers. UK SME lending volumes have...
04 April 2025 /startups /inclusion Fintech innovation and startups
Oleg Boiko Founder at Finstar Financial Group
Launching a fintech business in a new region presents both opportunities and significant risks. Emerging markets demand financial products, but ambition alone is not enough. How can one choose the right country and avoid failure? Where’s the Fintech Boom happening? Developing countries with rapidly growing GDPs are attracting investors’ attention.
03 April 2025 /inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion
Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa
Simulations are important. It was ever thus since the dawn of computing, but they have become even more important in AI-infused complex business environments. Simulations are core to any organization’s toolkit for making optimal decisions. Combining simulations with domain models (ontologies) rooted in an organization’s platform, model and data ar...
03 April 2025 /ai /regulation Financial Risk Management
Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design
Let’s cut to the chase. Financial institutions have spent decades obsessing over branches, brand identity, and service fees, believing those were the competitive battlefields. But in 2025, that war is being waged on a device that fits in your back pocket—the touchscreen smartphone. If a mobile banking app feels generic, devoid of real innovation, ...
03 April 2025 /retail /predictions Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
By now it is clear - not only to the ChatGPTs I have asked (and posted here) - but also to most of us - that the identity building credentials in general purpose organisational wallets are a must-have when employing AI-agents. The bicycle made for two (personal identity used at work and organisation's wallet) can then safely be equipped with an AI...
03 April 2025 /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services
Devendra Singh Parmar Independent Researcher
As the financial services industry continues to undergo rapid digital transformation, the landscape of banking is set to look dramatically different by 2030. One of the most pivotal forces shaping this evolution is the emergence of autonomous AI agents—intelligent systems capable of operating independently to solve complex problems, adapt to new en...
03 April 2025 /ai /crime Banking
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