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Today’s Technology Enigma In a world of consolidating vendors, shrinking profits and constrained budgets, there has never been a greater need to differentiate yourself using technology. The Buy-vs-Bui...
Despite new technologies and processes aiming to help root out fraudulent activity, fraud continues to be a major issue for the asset-based finance (ABF) industry. Only last year UK-based invoice fina...
The rapid development and rising volume of e-commerce transactions in recent years has encouraged the outbreak of cybercriminals – who are finding more and more complex ways to conceal profits that ar...
A banker quit his job and started a new company. He applied for a debit card for his company’s bank account. Ram, as we'll call the ex-banker, completed the required forms, submitted his company's boa...
Data, cloud, security and networks are going to underpin the success of banking’s strategy in open banking, was the strong message at a recent roundtable event hosted by Finextra, in association with ...
Now, more than a decade on from the events of 2008, the finance industry is far from settled. It’s chaos at the speed of the digital era. In fact, the next five years are set to be just as dynamic as ...
When it comes to bringing innovation to the world of banking and finance, what sort of apps might we see in years to come, and what areas are potentially ripe for development? What is driving the deve...
Project Carlton has been conceived as a stock take of the efforts to reform the UK payments business since 2014 and to evaluate the case for a change in direction. The reform efforts have been spearhe...
I was very interested to read the recent announcement from a group of Wall Street heavyweights about the of launch MEMX, a new exchange designed to challenge the dominance of the New York Stock Excha...
Designing APIs often leads to a compromise between producers and/or consumers. Consumers of APIs would like the interface to be as close to their requirements as possible; they want to avoid possible
On Wednesday 23rd January 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority published a consultation paper (CP 19/3) called 'Guidance on Cryptoassets'. Read this if you want to understand if your crypto activi
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have continued to move from the fringes of the investing world to a priority topic. Most recently, ESG has become vitally important to investors and ...