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Banking on loyalty: Financial institutions have a golden opportunity with media networks
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Banking on loyalty: Financial institutions have a golden opportunity with media networks

Social media and streaming may get all the hype, but the fastest growing advertising medium belongs to good old-fashioned retailers. This year, brands are projected to spend 8.5% more than last year on advertising in brick-and-mortar stores and on e-tailers’ owned websites and apps. Known as retail media networks (RMNs), these platforms take adva...

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Tokenised deposits are Britain’s best bet for smarter payments
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Tokenised deposits are Britain’s best bet for smarter payments

Confused by the stablecoin versus CBDC debate? There’s a third way - and the Bank of England is right to call it out. There’s a saying in finance: a payment is a payment is a payment. It reflects how, for most people, the mechanics of money movement are invisible - we just expect it to work. But beneath the simplicity of a tap on a card reader or a...

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How proptech and fintech is coming together for a smarter future
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How proptech and fintech is coming together for a smarter future

The convergence of proptech and fintech is reshaping the future of both sectors. It brings all-embracing implications for the entire real estate sector, from planning and construction to loans, sales, and maintenance, and significant implications for the finance sector in expanding access to a major asset class that can be easily accessible, funda...

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The UK’s moment to lead digital verification: A roadmap to economic growth and financial security
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The UK’s moment to lead digital verification: A roadmap to economic growth and financial security

Following London Tech Week, the spotlight is on the technologies shaping our future, and one of the most important is digital verification. With more of our lives happening online, from banking to healthcare to everyday shopping, the need for secure, reliable ways to prove who we are has never been greater. That’s why digital verification is high ...

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Will 2025 be the year of embedded finance at scale?
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Will 2025 be the year of embedded finance at scale?

Embedded finance, despite early promises, has not been adopted at quite the scale expected of a growing multi-billion market. The shift from early fintech-to-fintech implementations to consumer-facing products opened up a huge market, yet implementations are not as prevalent as they could be and most deployments have been relatively small in scale...

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Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Who benefits?
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Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Who benefits?

It was just over a decade ago that a strange new beast entered the UK’s legal scene. Introduced in the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (CCA), Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) were an innovation designed to adopt a pragmatic approach to economic crimes, including those of corruption and bribery (and in relation to criminal conduct that occurred pri...

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Understanding the DORA deadline
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Understanding the DORA deadline

This piece has been co-authored by Racheal Muldoon, partner, and Hasan Almosoy, associate, both in the financial services regulation and funds team at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys. Today is the deadline for fintech firms to ensure that existing measures sufficiently hold up to the new standards imposed by the EU's Digital Operational Resilien...

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Cybersecurity in 2025: Financial services and insurance at the centre
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Cybersecurity in 2025: Financial services and insurance at the centre

Cybersecurity has continued to be one of the most prominent challenges companies are facing, especially in financial services and insurance, often the most targeted industries. As we look ahead to the new year, the cybersecurity challenge shows no signs of easing as threats become more sophisticated by the day. That said, 2025 will mark an importa...

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Dubai and Abu Dhabi crypto firms: Regulatory pitfalls to avoid with EU or UK clients
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Dubai and Abu Dhabi crypto firms: Regulatory pitfalls to avoid with EU or UK clients

This piece was coauthored by Vlad Maly and Renate Prinz, partners at McDermott, Will & Emery. Continuing developments in the crypto regulatory sphere have significantly increased the attractiveness of Dubai and Abu Dhabi for crypto firms with global ambitions. Firms should remember, however, that they may also need to comply with the EU or UK ...

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Embedded finance adoption: What are the real catalysts?
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Embedded finance adoption: What are the real catalysts?

Embedded finance has become one of the biggest buzzwords of the 2020s in the fintech space. It broadens access to financial services, simplifies user journeys, lowers barriers to purchases—and of course has been a major growth driver for all kinds of companies. Embedded finance—which essentially means providing financial services at the point of g...

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Vietnam's fintech transformation: Driving a new approach to banking SMEs
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Vietnam's fintech transformation: Driving a new approach to banking SMEs

This article was co-authored by Leon Gauhman, co-founder and CPSO at digital product consultancy Elsewhen. The World Economic Forum predicts that 70% of new value created this decade will be based on digitally enabled technologies—and Vietnam's thriving, digitally literate, small business sector is an example of this trend in action. Powered by s...

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How can the UK become a world leader in regtech?
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How can the UK become a world leader in regtech?

The global regtech industry could be worth $85bn by 2032, how can the UK become a market leader? One of the key challenges facing the City of London is the growing competition from finance centres all around the world. New York continues to be a powerhouse attracting many exciting businesses to list, Singapore’s regulatory environment and digital i...

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