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Jamel Derdour

How the Payments Industry will Become a Part of Generative Text AI Technologies

Silicon Valley remains an innovation hub, changing business landscapes with new and exciting technology. Tech giants including Apple, Meta, Visa, and Cisco still operate out of the San Francisco area ...

15 May 2023
Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Todd Crosland

In times of economic uncertainty, crypto enables the era of financial autonomy

Born partly in reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, cryptocurrency was created as a radical alternative to the traditional financial industry. Rewind 15 years: banks that were “too big to fail” had ...

12 May 2023
Cryptocurrency Insights
Christian Damour

Future gazing: the evolution of SoftPOS

The current landscape Consumers are now used to tapping their card to make payments. The problem is, not all merchants can afford the onboarding and maintenance fees of legacy point of sale (POS) syst...

12 May 2023
Mousser Rahmouni

How to Easily Embed Crypto Off-Ramp Features with a Single API?

How to Ramp Crypto and Easily Embed Crypto Off-Ramp Features with Striga's APIs In the world of finance, crypto off-ramp is a crucial feature that allows companies to unlock new revenue streams by p...

12 May 2023
Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Janine Grainger

Crypto is more than an ‘asset class’; it’s a ‘lifeline’

From the comfort of a desk or couch in many first world countries, crypto might be seen as something to invest in and hold for the long term; or a niche investment opportunity. This is a valid use cas...

11 May 2023
Vaskar Dey

Revolutionizing Personalized Marketing in BFSI Industry with the power of Location-Based Targeting

In recent times, we observed that the paucity of time has reduced the attention span of customers and intense competition has resulted in shifting of their loyalties. Hence, personalization or targeti...

11 May 2023
Marketing in Financial Services
Ritesh Jain

Empowering Financial Inclusion and Resilience - A Handbook for Offline Payments with CBDC

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital currencies, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) has emerged as a game-changer. With its potential to revolutionize payment systems, the Bank for Internationa...

11 May 2023
Anne Plested

The MiFID II Review is on the horizon

In Europe, the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/MiFIR) have been with us since January 2018. In the preceding months, market participants completed multi-year...

11 May 2023
Guillaume Lepecq

EU legislation to facilitate the access to and acceptance of cash?

Could legislation contribute to the modernisation of the cash cycle by encouraging the adoption of new technologies and new business models? The mantras of the “Next Generation EU” project (“Make it G...

11 May 2023
Janine Grainger

Crypto: a ‘wicked’ solution to wicked money problems

(First published April 2023) Type “financial system challenges” into Google and over one billion, four hundred and fifty million results will pop up in milliseconds — a number so large I had to pause ...

10 May 2023
Karunakar Mohapatra

Exploring ZK Rollup: The Future of Scalable Blockchain Transactions is Now

Cryptocurrency Ethereum, in early 2021 processed over one million transactions a day, a figure that stayed relatively stable in recent years. It is a meteoric growth, given its humble beginnings in Au...

10 May 2023
Cryptocurrency Insights
Yuri Kropelnytsky

Cross-Border Payments Guide: What Can We Expect in 2023?

Introduction In recent years, it has become easier than ever to move businesses and money into the global economy. This has prompted banks and fintech companies to invest in more efficient technologie...

10 May 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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