1397 Results from 2021
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Payments are the foundation of global commerce. With economic activity expected to rebound from the prolonged pandemic, experts predict global payment volumes to grow by 11.5 percent through the year 2023. This increase in volume is set to challenge existing systems that were built to cater for manual processes, thus proving inadequate for the aut...
08 December 2021 /payments Fintech
David Maisey CEO at MultiPay Global Solutions Ltd
The battle lines have been drawn, but which side will back down first is still to be decided. Now in its third week, the spat caused by Amazon’s announcement that it would stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the UK from January 19th, 2022, due to the high fees the card provider places on transactions has got the payments world talking. Once...
07 December 2021 /payments The Payments Business
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
The term finance refers to the management of money and involves managing funds through lending, investing, borrowing, saving, budgeting, and planning. Finance is how you manage your funds along with acquiring the funds required. The two main financial types are equity finance and debt finance while the others include: Corporate finance Public f...
07 December 2021 /inclusion Finance 2.0
One of my guilty pleasures in sales is the opportunity to bring an enthusiastic expert to meet one of my prospects experts and to listen to them riff at a level way above my level of understanding. Irrespective of the complexity, enthusiasm compels you to concentrate and as a result there is usually a nugget of knowledge which I can simplify and u...
07 December 2021 /wealth /predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Marten Nelson Co-founder and CEO at M10
Here’s a good question: Can digital currency (DC) thrive within the two-tier monetary system that banks use the world over? After all, the current system has stood the test of time and is used by, well, everyone. Tearing it apart and trying to replace it with, say, a cryptocurrency makes little sense. How can we realize the promises of DC without ...
06 December 2021 /payments /crypto DeFi
Ron Benegbi Founder & CEO at Uplinq Financial Technologies
One of the most exciting events in an entrepreneur’s journey towards building a successful business is the very first one that occurs. That moment – sitting in a downtown coffee shop, standing at a bus stop, reading the Sunday paper when, out of nowhere, it hits… “I have an idea”. Ideas are seeds that materialize in the mind, and they tend to form...
06 December 2021 /people /identity Small Business Lending Innovation
Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter
As Brazilian fintech Nubank readies itself for one of the largest IPOs of 2021, the implications of the technology on Latin America’s unbanked communities can’t be overstated. Data suggests that for the 16.3 million Brazilian citizens who don’t have a bank account, and the further 17.7 who haven’t used their bank accounts in over a month, access t...
06 December 2021 /payments
Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
As in many other fields, this virtual space of the metaverse has sparked a desire among financial innovators to learn how fintech and new fintech solutions can provide financial services in this entirely new world. Metaverse technology to create new business models could lead to the emergence of crypto as a large-scale alternative financial system...
06 December 2021 /markets /predictions Fintech innovation and startups
Alpesh Tailor Executive Director at GFT
Cloud has moved quickly from being seen as a competitive advantage to the new baseline of business success. Almost every business needs a cloud strategy, and this is most pronounced in financial services. Some banks are already operating on the cloud, whilst others have plans to do so. Those without plans must start soon. Almost all businesses ar...
06 December 2021 /cloud Cloud Banking out of the Box
The Christmas season is here, and many retailers are feeling positive about performance this year, given that non-essential shops are open and things are heading back to normal. Sales, especially online, are already brisk and widely expected to become yet more robust in December. A good Christmas season on average accounts for 20% of annual revenu...
03 December 2021 /crime Business
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