The long read
Open banking year five: The journey from open finance to open everything

Open banking year five: The journey from open finance to open everything

Madhvi Mavadiya
13 Jan 2023

This review of the progress of the UK’s Open Banking initiative is the fifth in the series, marking ...

Blue Monday is the best day to look for a new job

Blue Monday is the best day to look for a new job


13 Jan 2023

In recent years Blue Monday has become more than a catchy ‘80s tune by New Order, and is now officia...

12 Security measures you must take when using digital payments to avoid scams

12 Security measures you must take when using digital payments to avoid scams

Loretta Kilday
12 Jan 2023

Digital payments are a practical choice for many customers, ranging from credit cards to mobile wall...

CBDC infrastructure in 2023 – scapegoats, politics, and interoperability

CBDC infrastructure in 2023 – scapegoats, politics, and interoperability

Níamh Curran
11 Jan 2023

The potential progress of CBDC remained in the headlines throughout 2022. Towards the end of the yea...

Unlocking value in digital spaces: The role of NFTs

Unlocking value in digital spaces: The role of NFTs

Jennifer Calver
09 Jan 2023

NFTs, and the tokenisation of real world to digital assets, is a hot topic across multiple industrie...

What is a returnship and how can one help your career?

What is a returnship and how can one help your career?


06 Jan 2023

There was a time when a gap on your CV was a red flag and something that, if you made it to an inter...

5 predictions for fintech in 2023: What’s next after a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year?

5 predictions for fintech in 2023: What’s next after a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year?

Arvin Abraham
05 Jan 2023

Fintech in 2022 was buffeted by a cyclical sectoral downturn combined with a souring macro-economic ...

Banking and fintech movers and shakers: what can we expect in 2023?

Banking and fintech movers and shakers: what can we expect in 2023?

Madhvi Mavadiya
04 Jan 2023

The way in which Sam Bankman-Fried departed FTX is not par for the course in the banking and fintec...

US cryptocurrency policy and the impact of the 2022 midterm elections

US cryptocurrency policy and the impact of the 2022 midterm elections

Sehrish Alikhan
03 Jan 2023

The United States is one of the biggest areas of growth for the cryptocurrency industry in the world...

4 career trends to consider in 2023

4 career trends to consider in 2023


30 Dec 2022

Do you want to get ahead in your career this year? Then you may have to switch your thinking in a fe...

Why credit unions must learn to lean on fintech

Why credit unions must learn to lean on fintech

James Berry
29 Dec 2022

From financial insecurity to lockdowns preventing access to high street bank branches, the pandemic ...

Finextra’s Top Long Reads of 2022

Finextra’s Top Long Reads of 2022

Madhvi Mavadiya
28 Dec 2022

With 2022 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most viewed long reads over the course of t...