Category : Fintech

The Latest Paris Fashions (In Fintech)

I was flattered to be invited to chair the keynote panel on new business models for banking at the Paris Fintech Forum 2023.

CCAF Study Uncovers Digital Assets’ Potential in a Humanitarian Context

A new study has been published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), at Cambridge Judge Business School. It provides insights and preliminary analysis on the potential use of digital assets to facilitate cash-based transfer (CBT) in...

Digital Prepaid Card Transactions to Grow 7.5x to Be Worth $3.98trillion by 2028

Payments expert, Juniper Research has released a new study. It found that the value of digital prepaid card transactions will exceed $3.98trillion globally by 2028, up from $528.7billion in 2023. Open-loop Prepaid Cards Drive Adoption By 2028, the va...

ERS and Acturis team up on full-cycle API car product for brokers

Acturis and specialist motor insurer ERS have launched an API based car insurance product for brokers on the software provider’s platform which replaces legacy EDI messaging.

UAE and Hong Kong Join Forces as Collaboration Enhanced Between FS Sectors of Both Jurisdictions

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) held a bilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi. There, they looked to enhance collaboration between the financial services sectors of the two jurisdictions. Durin...

Fintech giant Stripe is getting into the credit game

Stripe wants to make it easier for businesses to access credit. The private financial infrastructure giant announced a new charge card program today from Stripe Issuing, its commercial card issuing product, Denise Ho, head of product for BaaS at Stri...

Behind the Idea: etika

When approaching lending and payments, both consumers and merchants need to be kept in mind. Neglecting to recognise how tech helping consumers would impact merchants or vice versa is a recipe for failure. To understand one way in which this can be a...

StreamMind: Harnessing the Power of Deeptech With a Beatle-esque Twist

The shift towards digital payments has opened up opportunities for fraudsters to exploit vulnerabilities in online transactions, leading to a surge in payment fraud incidents. As digital payments gain prominence and cashless transactions become the n...

Dragonfly Financial Technologies: Technical Debt Is Standing in the Way of Banks’ Modernisation

Every bank has had to deal with technical debt at some point but now it’s preventing them from modernising their customer experience. Failure to modernise will result in lost clientele to emerging fintechs and neobanks who are not faced with the same...

Revolut alums raise millions for Vault, a startup offering banking services to Canadian SMBs

Vault, an online banking platform serving small-to-medium sized business (SMBs) in Canada, is launching to the public today after raising $3.7 million in seed funding. Founded in late 2021 by Saud Aziz and Ahmed Shafik (who previously worked at sunda...

52% of UK Firms to Incorporate Digital Identity

UK organisations and consumers are ready to embrace a new era of digital identity according to a new report from Curity, an API-focussed identity and access management company. 63 per cent of UK organisations either currently use digital identity or...

Claro Wellbeing Helps Raise Standards in Financial Services by Joining Consumer Duty Alliance

Claro Wellbeing, a financial wellness company, has announced it has become an affiliate member of professional body the Consumer Duty Alliance, to share and develop good practice in financial services and help raise industry standards. With fewer tha...

First Real-World, Cross-Border Settlement Using Australian CBDC Completed Through NexPay and Monoova

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in collaboration with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC), held an invitation-only conference in Sydney for participants in the Australian Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot project. In...

Applying New Techniques and Tools in Regtech With Kyckr, Visual Lease, Rise by Barclays and Remitly

The regtech space is in for a major shake-up, with the FCA‘s new Consumer Duty regulations coming into effect in two months. This presents an opportunity for financial institutions to adopt a new approach to compliance and regulation. We always hear...

Sustainable Growth Is More Important Than Growth-At-Any-Cost Uncovers Tipalti

Tipalti, the automated global payables solution, has revealed fresh insights into the strategies of global finance leaders in high growth businesses in the current economic climate. Almost eight in 10 (78 per cent) believe sustainable growth is now m...

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