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6 Fintech & Insurtech Predictions from a Pan-European VC

Michele Foradori Investment Director at BlackFin Tech

6 Fintech & Insurtech Predictions from a Pan-European VC

It is a recurring appointment for us at BlackFin Tech to sit down, at the end of every year, to discuss and reflect on new trends shaping the future of financial services. Here is what our team sees storming in 2021: 1. New frontiers for payments A new innovation breeze will hit the payment industry. Two key themes will shape the discussion for the...

11 February 2021 /predictions

Prajit Nanu CEO and Co-Founder at Nium

A new frontier for fintech in 2021

What a challenging yet extraordinary year 2020 was. We started the year full of high hopes and expectations for the new decade, with the concepts of 'pandemic', 'lockdowns' and 'remote working' being far beyond our imagination. The global business impact following the pandemic has been significant to say the least. Businesses in the travel and hosp...

09 February 2021 /predictions

Mariana Gomez de la Villa Principal Commercial Product Manager at ING

DLT Predictions for 2021

While a lot of people might have discerning perceptions on the future of blockchain as a whole, there’s no doubt it keeps being a subject that is not indifferent to anyone. We still have the anarchists and the haters as we have the believers and supporters, so even tough the ecosystem has evolved and together with it, the technology; some things h...

08 February 2021 /predictions

2021 Predictions: Realising the Value of Payments Transformation

Simon Wilson MD, Transaction Automation at valanticFSA

2021 Predictions: Realising the Value of Payments Transformation

It has been said that prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future. The unprecedented events of 2020 demonstrated quite how difficult it can be. The monumental uplifts in digital volumes, shifts in customer requirements and broader economic impact would have been (and frankly still are) barely conceivable. As such, financial ...

05 February 2021 /predictions

8 Ways Intelligent Automation Will Transform Financial Firms in 2021

Liz Benson Senior Director, Strategy at Kofax

8 Ways Intelligent Automation Will Transform Financial Firms in 2021

Disruption was the key theme for 2020 across all sectors. But even before COVID-19, financial firms were focused on improving the customer experience, competing with new digital-only entrants, and closing the gap between front and back offices. The pandemic only accelerated their digital transformation plans by forcing them to rethink how, and whe...

04 February 2021 /predictions

The 3 Key Risk, Compliance, and Governance Challenges for Finance to Tackle in 2021

Ian Raine VP Product Management at iManage

The 3 Key Risk, Compliance, and Governance Challenges for Finance to Tackle in 2021

Financial services professionals across asset management, investment and commercial banking, insurance, and other subsectors create and manage mission critical information that guides their most important business decisions. COVID-19 and the shift to remote working that followed in its wake didn’t change that; it just added some new challenges. As...

03 February 2021 /predictions

Treasury 2025: Finance departments in mid-sized corporates need to become innovation enablers

Retired Member

Treasury 2025: Finance departments in mid-sized corporates need to become innovation enablers

Nordea’s wide ranging ‘Treasury 2025’ survey of Nordic companies shines a light on finance/treasury departments in mid-sized corporates and their role in driving innovation. While many are optimistic about playing an increasing role in changing business models, they are not seen as particularly innovative by the rest of the business. Nordea’s annu...

01 February 2021 /predictions

Yaela Shamberg Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at InvestCloud

The future of wealth management

Covid-19 has fundamentally and permanently changed the wealth management industry – evolving client demands and accelerating the need to go digital. Firms who continue to improve their digital offerings will earn their place to compete in the market — whilst those who do not will be rendered obsolete. To succeed in this ever-evolving market, firm...

28 January 2021 /predictions

Jump Start 2021: Fintech Innovation Accelerates Digital Strategies in Financial Institutions

Priya Iyer CEO at Vee24

Jump Start 2021: Fintech Innovation Accelerates Digital Strategies in Financial Institutions

For financial institutions, the year 2020 accelerated the already intense focus on digital. A recent report from Deloitte notes that the pandemic has turbo-charged digitization for the banking industry, and predicts that banks will continue to elevate customer engagement by “creating an optimal mix of digital and human interactions, using data in...

27 January 2021 /predictions

Future of Payments: Five Expert Predictions about What will Shape Market in 2021

Marius Galdikas CEO at ConnectPay

Future of Payments: Five Expert Predictions about What will Shape Market in 2021

This year has been a rollercoaster for the payments industry, as it had to adapt to new challenges posed not only by the ever-changing needs of the consumer but by the pandemic as well. To shed some light on what the future has in store for the industry. Banking-as-a-service, or BaaS, offers the provision of banking processes, meaning, it allows to...

26 January 2021 /predictions

Four Predictions for Fintech and Payments in 2021

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Four Predictions for Fintech and Payments in 2021

Despite the overwhelming challenges of a global pandemic, 2020 saw an enormous amount of resilience, ingenuity and innovation in the world of fintech, payments and financial services. 1. The Effects of COVID-19 Will Continue to Influence Consumer Behaviour It is now well established that COVID-19 has accelerated many pre-pandemic trends. For exampl...

22 January 2021 /predictions

2021 Predictions for the Payments Industry

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2021 Predictions for the Payments Industry

Predictions for 2021 must consider the general trends from previous years, but with COVID-19 playing a major role in customer behaviour as well as restrictive measures for purchasing, the predictions for the payments industries and online merchant accounts must be viewed and studied with a more focused degree of scrutiny. From my experience in bot...

19 January 2021 /predictions

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