Tag: Fintech
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The Many Wonders of Digital Banking
This is a guest post by Ugo Juliet, a fintech and SaaS writer who helps businesses reach out to their target audience using content. For many bank customers, it’s been a long time since they set foot in a banking hall. Yet, they have been performing so many financial services’ transactions, all thanks to the…
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High-Risk Customers are Driving the Growth in Fintech
This is a guest post by Kathy Romanovskaya, CEO & Founder of A.ID, a compliance-as-a-service company. Financial technology may have revolutionized the way we deliver financial services… but traditional banks still shape the cooperation in the new economy. It is especially visible in high-risk segments, which are growing by day and becoming a considerable market…
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What next for innovation in banking? Interview with Dmitrii Barbasura
No matter what you can hear or read, innovating is incredibly hard. That’s true for both large and small companies. The vast majority of startups do not survive more than a few years. Incumbents try hard to spin-off new ventures, which sometimes end in massive and expensive failures. Like RBS and its digital bank, Bó,…
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Cleaning up the Digital Ecosystem
Guest post by Ro Paddock, Head of Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) at digital identity specialist Fourthline. Global lockdowns forced all sectors of society to find new, technologically driven ways of continuing daily activities. The result is threefold: a permanent reshaping of consumer behaviour, a resetting of expectations and an acceleration towards digitalising everything from commerce and…
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The Rise of Identity Access Management, IAM, in Fintech
This is a guest post by Devin Partida, a prolific writer about crypto, open banking and fintech for publications like Worth, Due, Yahoo! Finance and Entrepreneur. The fintech industry is no stranger to innovation, often far outpacing other sectors in adopting new technologies. As fintech firms attempt to balance agility and security, new tech tools…
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The True Democratisation of Wealth Management
Have we reached the stage of true democratisation of finance? Or, better yet, of wealth management? In case you have missed it, the digital broker Robinhood just did a big IPO. Big as in it gave the company an initial market capitalisation of $32 billion. Everybody was expecting it, but that’s not pocket change. At…
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Will Supply Chain evolve with the Digital Disruption?
Guest post by Antonio Lanotte from CFE Tax Advisers Europe, a Brussels-based association of European tax advisers, and Lorenzo Savastano from the Guardia di Finanza, an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. Introduction The most considerable application of blockchain, in the form of a distributed ledger technology…
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Investment Advisory’s Future: Interview with Michael Summerton
The wave of fintech disruption that came after the Great Financial Crisis was strong. Incumbent banks and financial service providers were not in a strong position. And so new companies took the opportunity and emerged. Slowly but surely gaining customers and grabbing market share. Most of that growth was due to superior user experience, surfing…
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Why is NFT a Game Changer for the Ticketing Industry?
Guest post by Elena Obukhova, founder & CEO at FAS | Fintech Advisory Services. FAS is a global and fully decentralized advisory ecosystem that bridges blockchain and fintech experts from Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America with SMEs willing to evolve in those domains. NFT, a concept that created hype around Digital Art, is…
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An opportunity to create an ecosystem that will allow EU Fintechs to thrive
Guest post by Antonio Lanotte on the EU’s proposed legal framework on AI: how is it an opportunity to create an ecosystem that will allow European fintechs to thrive? Introduction After more than 18 months of the pandemic, there are two main but connected takeaways from the Covid-19. On the one side, the increased importance…