Technology
Technology drives the evolution of financial services, from APIs and cloud infrastructure to mobile banking platforms and blockchain innovations. Fintech Review explores how technological advances are reshaping fintech, improving efficiency, enabling new models, and expanding digital finance possibilities globally.
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Why is Wealth Management Technology So Important?
It is time-consuming to switch from one wealth management tool to another. However, today, you have the option to have a wealth management software solution perfect for your specific needs as a wealth manager, an advisor, or a simple investor. In today’s competitive financial world, investors and wealth advisors have to be at a cutting…
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The Future of Open Banking in North America
It’s no secret that the banking industry is in the midst of a major upheaval. One of the most promising new developments in this space is open banking. Simply put, open banking allows customers to share their data with third-party providers in a secure and transparent way. So far, open banking has been a massive…
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Fintechs Could be Risking Everything from a Lack of Simple Cyber Strategy
Even businesses that you’d think would have a good cybersecurity strategy in place to mitigate any security issues or data breaches can still fall foul to risks and attackers. That is the stark warning from ImmuniWeb‘s COO, Ekaterina Khrustaleva. Businesses including banks, as well as other financial institutions and organisations. Ekaterina shares with Fintech Review…
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Infographic – Financial Trends to Watch Out for in 2022
Infographic on financial trends in 2022 by Colette Cassidy, Director of Irish tax consultancy All Finance Tax, specialists in financial and taxation advice.
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Mobile Device Financing: Interview with Clint Fayling
Smartphones and other mobile devices are becoming ever more expensive. Even if Tim Cook says that Apple products are not just rich people. Maybe we just have a different understanding of what it means to be rich… If a smartphone is worth two thirds of the average monthly income, or even half, that’s not affordable.…
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What’s Next for Supply Chain Finance? Interview with Noam Mani
With all that fintech innovation all over the place… one would think that everything has been solved. Not so fast, muchacho. There is still plenty of things to do. A lot of different parts of the financial service industry are still widely inefficient. Some are still huge problems, in dolar terms, to solve. And some…
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Future of Real Asset Platforms: Interview with Manuela Seve
Are you wondering was is next for real asset platforms? Given all the noise with NFTs… Unless you have never heard of NFTs, which is possible… but unlikely! Fintech Review asked a few questions to Manuela Seve, Chief Executive Officer of alphaa.io to decode all this garbled noise… Tell us more about Alpha’a. What is…
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Helping e-commerce business and online sellers to grow: Interview with Jeff Parker, CEO of WorldFirst
Scaling a business is not easy, particularly an e-commerce one. That is the beauty of the internet… but also its biggest drawback. You can launch and run a business from absolutely anywhere with a decent internet connection. And so can help anybody else. In that intensely competitive environment, how do you help e-commerce business and…
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Payment Orchestration: Interview with Denys Kyrychenko
What is really payment orchestration? We asked exactly Denys Kyrychenko, CEO of Corefy. Like in any orchestras, you need a chief conductor when it comes to payments. For instance, organising things like payment authorisation, transaction routing, or settlement. This is the orchestration that many businesses so desperately need. Tell us more about Corefy. What is…
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Emotion AI in financial services: Interview with Rana Gujral
With technology taking us so far, it is easy to forget about what makes us humans… Before Skynet takes over. Emotions, feelings, a range of things that are not easily replicable or understandable by machines. Or can they? It is not obvious to associate emotion with artificial intelligence, but maybe it should be. Fintech Review…
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How Fintech Big Data Plays a Valuable Role in Financial Evolution
By Timothy Partasevitch, Chief Growth Officer at Smart IT. The emergence of big data in the late 2000s opened a lot of new ways of storing, processing, and managing information. This provided an opportunity to get more value from the data flowing into companies’ systems. Soon big data in Fintech became not only an irreplaceable…
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What is Open Payroll Connectivity? Interview with Maximilian Czymoch
Open payroll connectivity… if that sounds like a very random mix of words, you’ve come to the right place. These words taken individually actually are not so random. Everybody is familiar with payroll and connectivity. And you probably have heard of open finance or open banking. But that’s what we do at Fintech Review, decrypt…
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IoT in the Financial Sector: Benefits, Challenges, and More
The Internet of Things (IoT) sector is rapidly growing. According to Gartner, 25 billion connected things will be applied by the end of 2021 for producing and processing large piles of data. Such a technology flourishes these days, facilitating people’s lives in almost all the fields of activity. Banking is one of these fields where…
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What Payment Issues Can SMBs Encounter with their Website?
Katie Tejada is a writer, editor, and former HR professional. She often covers developments in HR, business communication, recruiting, real estate, finance and law, but also enjoys writing about travel, interiors and events. Running a Small Business is Hard It’s tricky running a small business, and payment issues should be the last thing you need…
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How Fintechs are Leveraging Technology to Develop New and Innovative Credit-Scoring Models
The more effective your credit scoring model is, the better your bank’s lending programs will be. More than any other factor, how deeply your financial institution determines prospective borrowers will decide the size and profitability of your lending book. Your loan decision process has to be fast, accurate, and low-risk. That is if you want…
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How Savvy Fintech Startups are Transforming Investment Banking
By iTechArt, a one-stop source for custom software development. Between uncannily smart algorithms, out-of-the-box blockchain solutions, and a world caught by surprise on NFTs, it is easy to get lost. Let’s dive into how the investment banking segment is leveraging technology to innovate in the fintech industry. Enterprises can be notoriously bureaucratic whenever something —…
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2021 Retrospective
Before making any wild predictions for the new year, because obviously one has to make predictions about the fintech industry in 2022, one has to reckon with his past predictions. It is a healthy process that most people do not want to go through. Even though it is quite necessary. Firstly, because most predictions tend…
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Fintech Has a Growing Role in Disrupting These 7 Industries
Devin Partida is a prolific writer about crypto, open banking and fintech for publications like Worth, Due, Yahoo! Finance and Entrepreneur. Few technology fields today are as disruptive as fintech. These unconventional financial apps and services have already reshaped banks, with more than half of Americans using digital banking as of 2018. Still, this is…
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What Next for P2P Lending? Interview with Janis Eismonts
Peer-to-peer lending has boomed in recent years, particularly in the US and the UK. And so has the funding funnelled to these companies. It had been also quite popular in China between 2011 and 2015, because lending there was really ripe for disruption. Until we realised that most Chinese P2P lenders were in fact Ponzi…
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How Supply Chain Fintech is Revolutionizing Logistics
Devin Partida is a prolific writer about crypto, open banking and fintech for publications like Worth, Due, Yahoo! Finance and Entrepreneur. The fintech industry is developing many supply chain tools that should make logistics more efficient and overcome some persistent challenges. Here are six specific ways fintech products are emerging as game-changers in logistics. 1.…
