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To lead you need to cultivate your executive presence

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

To lead you need to cultivate your executive presence

Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos; these titans of tech do not appear to have much in common on a personal level, but both are responsible for founding and building two of the world’s most successful and recognisable brands in Apple and Amazon. Jobs was an aesthete with a love of simplicity and the work of Japanese designer Issey Miyake, while Bezos is a l...

17 February 2023 /people

Níamh Curran

Metaverse progress unlikely in 2023

The metaverse is a hot topic which everyone seems keen to pontificate about, but less so to actually dip their toes in. The reasons for this, especially in the financial services sector, are obvious. This technology is new and not fully developed, and its benefits it offers compared to a more traditional investment option remain to be seen. Despi...

16 February 2023 /crypto

Nigeria election 2023: the impact on fintech and digital payments

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Nigeria election 2023: the impact on fintech and digital payments

Some Nigerian citizens believe that outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) government has played an instrumental role in establishing a foundation for the likes of Flutterwave, PayStack and Interswitch to thrive. Others feel that the biggest contribution that the Nigerian government has made to the fintech and digita...

15 February 2023 /payments

Lovelorn and conned: Don't give your heart to a fraudster this Valentine's

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Lovelorn and conned: Don't give your heart to a fraudster this Valentine's

Valentine’s Day celebrates romance and gives couples an opportunity to showcase their love, but also exposes lonely souls to getting their hearts broken in more ways than one. Financial fraudsters are targeting the lovelorn as romance scams are set to surge on the fated day of love (and heart-shaped consumerism). Love statistics: How Valentine’s D...

14 February 2023 /security

Regulation of virtual assets: What we can expect in 2023

Paige Berges Counsel at Ropes & Gray

Regulation of virtual assets: What we can expect in 2023

As anticipated, it has been an incredibly active year for regulation and financial crime related to virtual assets (see our previous alert from January 2022). Despite the onset of the “crypto winter,” illicit use of virtual assets rose again to an all-time high of $20.1 billion. While the illicit share of the market remains less than 1% of overal...

13 February 2023 /predictions

How do you know when it’s time to walk away from your job?

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

How do you know when it’s time to walk away from your job?

There have been many public resignations of late. In tech, Netflix founder Reed Hastings stepped down from his role as CEO in January following a 25-year journey with the company. Hastings’ resignation was remarkable in that he orchestrated it himself, understanding that good leaders know when it is time to hand over the reins to the next generatio...

10 February 2023 /people

Breaking into Fintech: Here’s how to get hired at Mollie

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Breaking into Fintech: Here’s how to get hired at Mollie

For the latest piece of our ‘Breaking into Fintech’ series exploring the job opportunities in fintech, Finextra asked Tamar van Herk, head of talent acquisition at Mollie, how candidates can maximise their potential and to get hired by leading fintechs. Mollie is an online payments service for businesses, with offices across Europe in the Netherlan...

09 February 2023 /people

Why Nordic bank SEB is betting on Banking-as-a-Service in 2023

Paige McNamee

Why Nordic bank SEB is betting on Banking-as-a-Service in 2023

Diving into the new year with big plans up his sleeve, the head of SEB’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) offshoot SEB Embedded, Christoffer Malmer, wants to see BaaS use-cases dominate the headlines this year. 2023 is an exciting year for Malmer and his team’s brain-child SEB Embedded in many respects. The BaaS platform broke away from SEB’s innovatio...

08 February 2023 /predictions

The Fintech Sentiment: Fintech’s reaction to UK cryptoasset consultation

Paige McNamee

The Fintech Sentiment: Fintech’s reaction to UK cryptoasset consultation

Just under one week ago, HM Treasury announced its intention to bring cryptoassets under the same regulatory regime as traditional financial services, introducing rules which it hopes will position the UK as a global crypto hub. The highly anticipated consultation paper discusses a breadth of topics, ranging from NFTs to stablecoins to exchange t...

07 February 2023 /regulation

How Gen Z is driving sustainability across fintech

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

How Gen Z is driving sustainability across fintech

The up-and-coming generation of young adults that were born between 1995 and 2010, popularly known as Gen Z, has been at the forefront of green ambition and combatting climate change. Activism has been popular among this generation not as a mere trend, but as a genuine and passionate interest in safeguarding their future and the future of this pla...

06 February 2023 /sustainable

Can AI deliver the future of wellness at work?

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

Can AI deliver the future of wellness at work?

Could robots replace the human race? Could machines stage a mass revolt and take over the planet? Thankfully, both scenarios seem far-fetched, but with advances in machine learning and the advent of ChatGPT transforming and simplifying the tasks performed by people, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be viewed with suspicion and trepidation...

03 February 2023 /people

Why is intellectual property protection essential in the virtual world?

Dale Carter Partner at Reddie & Grose LLP

Why is intellectual property protection essential in the virtual world?

This article was co-authored by Jasmine Walters, technical assistant at Reddie & Grose LLP. In 2022, banking and finance brands made a number of notable forays into the metaverse in the context of protecting key Intellectual Property (IP) rights. American Express filed seven new trade mark applications by March relating to its company name, log...

02 February 2023 /crypto

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