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The last two years have been tumultuous for nearly everyone. From mandated closures, lockdowns, anxieties around health and work, and well… the general state of the world, things have not been easy. This is especially true for small and medium businesses, who have not only had to deal with all of this, but also worries about whether their business...
15 February 2022 /startups /predictions
Gleb Kozlov CEO at KoronaPay
Over the past two challenging years, the remittance industry proved to be amazingly resilient and investment in fintech in general has reached unprecedented levels. 2022 begins with a promise of a fresh start in Europe. With the economies gradually recovering from the pandemic and labour migration a priority, we hope to see the number of labour mi...
26 January 2022 /payments /predictions
Shaju Nair Payments SME, Product Manager at Temenos
The world today is awash with money. The global broad money supply is reaching $ 90 Trillion, the United States alone contributing about $ 30 Trillion. Roughly 30% of US money supply was added in the last 2 years - with rest of nations also been adding similar quantities in recent past in their natural objective to be competitive in international...
24 January 2022 /payments /wholesale
FinTechs have one main advantage in the market - flexibility. They have been able to move quickly to develop new features and roll them out before traditional banks could. Now however, we see traditional banks rolling out those same features. In 2022, the winners will be those with the infrastructure clout to seize new opportunities ahead. The chal...
18 January 2022 /payments /retail
Sebastian Meyer Experienced Sales and Business Development Leader at tbd
The energy and commodity markets are constantly changing, and have recently experienced extreme fluctuations in price due to global gas shortages, post-lockdown industrial demand, and low wind generation in Europe. Whilst volatility is expected in energy trading markets, market participants such as utilities, industrial firms and trading houses ar...
13 January 2022 /markets
Harriet Christie Chief Operating Officer at Mirrorweb
On July 22nd, FINRA CEO Robert Cook revealed that a sweep related to financial services influencers ‘is coming’. It eventually arrived in September, hot on the heels of the SEC requesting comment on the ‘digital engagement practices’ used by investment advisers and broker-dealers. The SEC was most interested in how tools are used that appeal to in...
07 January 2022 /regulation /people
Henrik Grim General Manager at Capchase
It’s been a boom year for startup financing in Europe, which is great news because the world needs innovative startups to take on the big challenges it's facing, from pandemic recovery to climate change. But what I’m really excited about is how much the world of startup finance has matured this year. Founders now have an even wider ranging of opti...
21 December 2021 /startups /predictions
Timothy Loy Sutherland Senior Director Cloud Enablement and Architecture at Finastra
By now, most organisations in the business of delivering software will likely have a DevOps strategy. Even if adoption is only partial, the maturity of DevOps enables firms to improve delivery by implementing the tools and practices across their organisation that best suit their needs. Once the benefits of DevOps are realised, the business case f...
16 December 2021 /cloud /devops
Jessica Bayley Head of Marketing at Acquired.com
The move from traditional credit card and consumer-finance solutions to more customer-centric payment solutions has undoubtedly been accelerated by the pandemic. As we emerge into a new cashless era (cash payments declined by 16% globally in 2020) deepening customer engagement by leveraging data-driven payment solutions can help eCommerce business...
29 November 2021 /payments
Dmitry Dolgorukov CEO at GiniMachine
Back when we first heard of Bitcoin in 2009, many brushed off the cryptocurrency as just a new fad, refusing to believe that technology had the power to impact such a stalwart industry as finance. Now, twelve years later, we are seeing tech, and not just crypto, integrate with almost every area of the financial world, from payments to insurance to...
17 November 2021 /predictions
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