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Fintech jobs: The challenges for women in the workplace

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Fintech jobs: The challenges for women in the workplace

Every year, the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist shines a light on 150 women across seven categories who have made a substantial impact across the industry. A selected panel of independent judges also select the Standout 35, a group of 35 women who are making a difference over and above their day-to-day role. While I am proud and humble...

24 March 2021 /people

Will boosting the UK Government's role in fintech drive tangible change?

Paige McNamee

Will boosting the UK Government's role in fintech drive tangible change?

Incoming Finextra Contributor Lord Chris Holmes, Member of the UK House of Lords, recognises the role fintech will play into the future of UK financial services and is loudly championing its cause. Finextra’s conversation with Holmes could not be more timely. While Ron Kalifa OBE’s comprehensive review into Fintech in the UK was welcomed by the in...

22 March 2021 /regulation

EBAday 2021: Striving for strong instant payments uptake

Paige McNamee

EBAday 2021: Striving for strong instant payments uptake

At the heart of the European Commission’s Retail Payments Strategy lies the ambition to bolster progress toward instant payments, calling for a full uptake via SEPA Instant Credit Transfers (SCT Inst) by the end of 2021. More than 50 instant payment schemes currently exist around the world, and while the manner in which consumer payments leverage i...

19 March 2021 /payments

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Motivating Engineers

If you have spent most of your working life outside any form of IT department or engineering team, you probably won’t have come across many of the personalities that you find within those areas. I have been a software engineer since graduating from university and I can safely say that we are a unique bunch, more so when compared against a cross se...

18 March 2021 /devops

Justin Bercich

5 Anti-Money Laundering trends for 2021

1. New transaction threshold will increase operational pressures With the US making moves to lower the suspicious transactions threshold from $3,000 to $250 – meaning any transaction above $250 will have to be investigated manually – we will likely see banks forced into significantly increasing their operations to cope. Banks are being squeezed fr...

16 March 2021 /predictions

After Brexit, Britain seizes the moment for unification across banking, trading and investing

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

After Brexit, Britain seizes the moment for unification across banking, trading and investing

Expansion is the name of the game for today’s financial companies. The CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman, announcing record earnings early this quarter, said that he expects the company to evolve from a digital wallet “into a superapp that transcends across payments and financial services.” The term ‘super app’ comes from China, where AliPay and WeChat ...

11 March 2021 /markets

How technology can support finance professionals in driving business growth

Hugh Scantlebury Founder & CEO at Aqilla

How technology can support finance professionals in driving business growth

Finance teams are a key component of any successful organisation. As well as their pivotal analysis, management, reporting and governance responsibilities, modern, high-performing financial professionals play a growing part in shaping direction and growth strategy. In recent years, the finance professional’s role has evolved from its traditional s...

10 March 2021 /predictions

Payments in 2021: Putting futureproofing to the test via digitisation, speed and data

Retired Member

Payments in 2021: Putting futureproofing to the test via digitisation, speed and data

Following a turbulent and challenging 2020, businesses have been reminded with stark force of the need to be as prepared as possible for whatever lies ahead, futureproofing where they can. Future market trends are harder to predict than ever, with the growing influence of politics on financial markets and the addition of Covid-19 bringing a new di...

09 March 2021 /predictions

Finance teams have been left in the dark on the real cost of working from home

Carlo Gualandri CEO at Soldo

Finance teams have been left in the dark on the real cost of working from home

2020 was a year like no other and hugely challenging for businesses across the board. Thankfully, with the UK’s vaccine roll out, we can hope, with cautious optimism, that we are only a few months away from the pandemic’s end. Entire sectors of the UK economy are currently shutdown, but it’s clear that even when they re-start, it won’t mark a retu...

09 March 2021 /predictions

How digital identity is the catalyst for increasing financial inclusion among women

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

How digital identity is the catalyst for increasing financial inclusion among women

Women make up 55% of the world’s unbanked population. Ahead of International Women’s Day, Finextra interviewed several experts in the financial services community about how women can be granted the autonomy to take control of their own financial decisions and the barriers that need to be removed, namely the lack of a formal ID. The digital divide ...

08 March 2021 /identity

Agile Series: Applying your values and principles

Andrew Smith Founding CTO at RTGS & ClearBank

Agile Series: Applying your values and principles

In the previous article, we looked at underlying core values and setting principles to help create the right environment in which a good effective agile engineering culture can grow. In this article, we will look at how you can apply these to really build a great engineering culture. You need to coach a team Like many people I have long followed ...

05 March 2021 /devops

Top French sustainable finance strategists provide an ESG reporting blueprint

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Top French sustainable finance strategists provide an ESG reporting blueprint

At a Bloomberg EU Policy event ahead of International Women’s Day, Banque de France’s Sylvie Goulard and the French government’s Olivia Grégoire discussed how to encourage companies to commit to environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure, how to improve the quality of data provided by organisations and whether it is time to reinforce re...

04 March 2021 /sustainable

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