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Trends in Financial Services

A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.

Roy Prayikulam

Roy Prayikulam SVP Risk & Fraud Division at INFORM GmbH

INNOVATIONS IN PAYMENT FRAUD – AND HOW TO STAY AHEAD OF THEM

2021 was a year of innovations in payments, from the wider acceptance of blockchain and cryptocurrency to new forms of digital wallets and currency. However, this meant that online fraudsters were also innovating and devising new ways to scam consumers out of their money or personal information online. Here we will dive into some of the ways fraud...

/payments /crime

Saloni Ramakrishna

Saloni Ramakrishna Author; Senior Director at Oracle

It takes two to Tango –Central Banks and commercial banks, partners in Climate change management

There were two primary principles that I touched in my previous blog Climate change Management- whose job is it anyway. The first is, boundary definitions with clear responsibility/ accountability for the major stake holders and the second, need for smooth collaboration between them. Central banks and commercial banks are the critical stake holde...

/regulation /sustainable

Alistair Catto

Alistair Catto Managing Director at Beyond

5 initiatives to improve the digital experience of clients in Asset Management

Digital technologies are revolutionising the Asset Management industry. From the development of digital first customer journeys to the automation of critical back-office functions, the influence of digital is now being felt across every aspect of these organisations. It’s no surprise why, KPMG report that between 2017 and 2020, digitally mature or...

/wealth /markets

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Giving people what they want: the tech that will help banks to meet customer demands

Welcome to a new era of customer-centricity. Today, customers enjoy a wealth of options at their very fingertips. They are made more powerful as a result. Hyper-responsive brands such as Netflix and Amazon have driven changes to customer expectations. Financial services providers need to catch up. Technology offers both incumbents and disruptors t...

/retail /sustainable

Harriet Christie

Harriet Christie Chief Operating Officer at Mirrorweb

How Regulators are Tackling the 'Wild West' of Cryptocurrency

2021 was a major year for cryptocurrency. We witnessed all-time-highs and steep plummets, but one clear trend amongst the volatility is that public discussion on the topic reached hitherto unseen levels. This was fueled by such diverse factors as bitcoin upgrades, NFT artwork, China’s September ban, and Elon Musk’s SNL antics. The spotlight has c...

/regulation /crypto

Saloni Ramakrishna

Saloni Ramakrishna Author; Senior Director at Oracle

Climate change risk management – whose job is it anyway?

Well, the answer is obvious isn’t it – it is “EVERYBODY’s, you would say. There lies the difficulty. One of the first management lesson’s is never to make any job “everybody’s” as it has two risks inherently. Either it becomes everybody’s and nobody’s at the same time, resulting in an impasse or the boundaries and the gaps in-between one group to ...

/regulation /sustainable

Roel Mels

Roel Mels Global Head of Marketing at TRG Screen

2022: A transformative year in financial market data?

2022: A transformative year in financial market data? Five themes to watch in ever-changing data market Increasingly complex data poses risks for unwary “The Great Resignation”, staffing and admin overload Post-Covid inflation highlights need to curb costs Hybrid workforce brings compliance headaches, weighty admin burden Managed services market f...

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Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Trends Fintech Leaders Should Watch: 2022 Edition

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...

/startups /predictions

Gleb Kozlov

Gleb Kozlov CEO at KoronaPay

Four Snapshots Shaping Cross-Border Remittance Market in 2022

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...

/payments /predictions

Shaju Nair

Shaju Nair Payments SME, Product Manager at Temenos

An ocean of Money, a sea of Debt - and the CBDC lifeboat

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...

/payments /wholesale