Community
A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.
As the owner, you will also give up ownership if you leave this group.
Justin Van Til SVP of Product, Marketing & Strategy at QUODD
The inflationary environment is hitting all corners of the economy. Yes, even financial services companies. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the cost of market data. The challenge for financial institutions – and by extension, their wealth management servicing platforms – is that this information is not a discretionary purchase that th...
13 October 2022 /wealth /predictions
Gilbert Verdian Founder and CEO at Quant
New rules, like the UK’s Financial Services and Markets Bill and the EU’s Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), should be welcomed, argues Quant’s Founder and CEO, Gilbert Verdian. Republished with the permission of Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence. Over the last five years, investment in cryptocurrency increased from $100 billion to a market cap...
11 October 2022 /regulation /crypto
Koen Vanpraet CEO EMEA at Moneycorp, CEO EMEA
From the very first ATM in the 1960s to the rise of smartphones leading to mobile banking in the 2000s, and now in the booming digital era with super apps and fintechs, the financial industry has evolved to improve the customer experience. While customers may choose a financial product or service for its function and features, user experience is w...
03 October 2022 /payments /people
Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
Crypto market is going through wild changes, and record drawdown of key coins during the last five months has made people nervous. However, the current decline is a natural and, in my opinion, temporal event. Vitalik Buterin proclaimed the beginning of the crypto winter in February 2022. In his interview for Bloomberg, he said that the stagnatio
17 August 2022 /crypto /markets
Omkar Nisal Managing Director UK & Ireland at Wipro Ltd
Last year reports of cybersecurity incidents targeting UK financial services providers skyrocketed by more than half in comparison with previous year and the trend continues this year, at even faster pace, fuelled with Global events. While financial institutions are some of the best protected with ‘industry leading’ Cyber defence and response c
16 August 2022 /security /cloud
Matthew Phillips Head of Banking, UK and Ireland at Diebold Nixdorf
We are truly in the era of the customer. Gone are the days when standard products sets and a one size fits all approach was possible, as technology and intelligence propels us into an ever increasingly digital economy. Taking an outside in mind-set, it is imperative for financial service providers to reassess their purpose and direction to keep th...
09 August 2022 /retail /predictions
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
There is a clear trend with the young generation to be averse of credit cards. They have seen from their parents what a too high usage of credit cards can lead to and at the same time feel that credit cards are complex and lack transparency. The rise of BNPL is a clear consequence of that, i.e. these companies provide a different means to the same ...
29 June 2022 /payments /retail
Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever
In a previous blog "Are credits not too commoditized?" in February 2020, we already raised the concern that loans in general and mortgages in particular have become too much of a commodity product, for which price is nearly the only differentiator. Many customers are however unaware that the loan with the best price or interest rate may ...
22 June 2022 /retail /startups
How war in Ukraine effected the world Fintech? Russia's war in Ukraine affected all the CIS countries and somewhat all the world. As well the war influenced fintech companies, whose rapid development was observed after the pandemic. Let's take a look what fintech companies have been targeted by the russian invasion and how they can expand their bu...
13 June 2022 /payments /markets
The advancement of technologies expectedly leads to growing client requests, stimulating the Fintech industry to keep up with the times and be quick in offering popular services. The last year spurred substantial transformation in financial technologies and highlighted issues which need to be addressed in the nearest future. Here is an overview of ...
03 May 2022 /payments /markets
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.