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Priyanka Rao

Priyanka Rao Content Strategist at Jupiter Money

Britain to Follow Trump’s Lead and Bring Crypto Into the Forefront of Politics

There is something happening in the UK. The traditional political establishment of the Labour and Conservative parties looks like it is breaking apart, and for the first time in over a century there looks to be a new political party on the block, Reform UK. For those new to the British political scene, Reform UK is a party that sits on the right o...

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Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder and CEO at UXDA Financial UX Design

The Convergence of Fintech and Banking: The Gap Between UX and Functionality Is Closing

In the past decade, the financial landscape witnessed a dramatic transformation driven by two distinct forces: fintech startups and traditional banks. Initially, fintechs emerged as UX-rich but often monofunctional challengers, while banks remained service-rich but struggled with digital customer experience. Today, however, these lines are blurrin...

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Naina Rajgopalan

Naina Rajgopalan Content Head at Freo

Building Financially Resilient Ecommerce Stores with Smart Dropshipping Tools

Long-term success in today's fast-paced digital marketplace depends on creating a financially stable e-commerce store that can adjust and prosper in any economic environment, not just having a fantastic product. Dropshipping is a potent business strategy that enables entrepreneurs to sell goods without having to deal with the hassle of inventory c...

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Naina Rajgopalan

Naina Rajgopalan Content Head at Freo

Smarter Debt Collection Strategies: How Human and AI Collaboration is Transforming the Future of Col

In today’s dynamic financial environment, lending businesses are under growing pressure. Rising delinquency rates, shifting customer expectations, and economic volatility are making traditional, one-size-fits-all collections strategies increasingly ineffective. To stay ahead, organizations must embrace smarter, more adaptive approaches to debt col...

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Scott Andery

Scott Andery Marketing Consultant at Diginatives

Crowdsourced Insights: Ranking Systems as Predictive Tools

Ranking systems fueled by crowdsourced data have emerged as powerful predictive tools across diverse industries. By harnessing collective sentiment and behavior, these systems not only reflect real-time consensus but also anticipate future trends in domains like sports, finance, and consumer retail. Their effectiveness lies in modeling psychologic...

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US Regulation Survey 2025: Compliance at a Crossroads

Assessing financial industry preparedness in a shifting US regulatory landscape as organisations struggle with deadlines, cost, and technology. In an environment of rapidly evolving regulations, driven by legislative and policy shifts at the federal and state levels, the US regulatory landscape is marked by complexity and uncertainty. Understanding the level of preparedness across industries is crucial for ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and enhancing operational efficiency. This survey was conducted at the beginning of 2025, gathering financial services industry sentiment as the Trump Administration took office and began pivoting on key regulatory elements. With the US financial regulation regime also somewhat in limbo, that uncertainty was – and is – increasingly impacting the views of the 200 organisations surveyed. Analysis of our survey responses provides a comprehensive overview of the state of regulation readiness in the US, differences in reporting obligations, the impacts of automation for compliance, the roles of technology and data, and industry plans for modernisation. We explore: Which regulations will have the biggest impact on US financial services in 2025; Regulatory effects on organisational frameworks, budgets and staffing; How organisations are leveraging technology and partnerships to streamline regulatory compliance.

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Sustainable Finance Live – Natural Capital Finance

A Record from the Sustainable Finance Live Conference and Hackathon 2024  On 8 October 2024, Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk held the annual Sustainable Finance Live hybrid conference and hackathon, in partnership with NayaOne.  The conference took place at Events@ No6 in London, and started off with a welcome from founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor for Finextra, Richard Peers. Peers opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event: to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.  The focus areas of the conference were natural capital, agriculture, supply chains, as well as regulation and reporting. The sessions also highlighted highlighting new technologies that are being used to collect nature-related data such as Earth observation and satellite reporting.  Richard Peers, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of ResponsibleRisk, moderated the conference: “What we wanted to do is to put on an event aimed at explaining the landscape of a natural capital transaction, with the associated data providers identified along the way. Ending the process in an asset management trading platform, taking into consideration all the steps that a regulated entity has to undertake, to prove to the financial industry that this can be an asset class, that is as tradable as any other.”  Download a Visual Record of the event below to discover key themes of the event’s panels, keynotes, and hackathon. We cover:  Natural capital trading from field to trade;  How nature financing can be achieved;  The role of data, economic profit, and policy for natural capital;  How to build a sustainable ecosystem using natural value;  Visions and results from the hackathon;  And more. 

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White Paper

Beyond Tomorrow In The Capital Markets

Technology has long been transforming the capital markets industry, but the tides are changing for what is considered success. Now more than ever, firms need to prioritise operational resilience.  Technological advances are indisputably reshaping how firms in the capital markets operate, however, as the reliance on technology grows, so does the impact of glitches and outages when they occur. Take the CrowdStrike global outage, for example, which caused an estimated $1.15BN and $140M in financial losses for the banking and financial sectors respectively.  The consecutive outages expose the fragility of technical infrastructure and underscore a need for better operational resilience across the capital markets. It also reiterates the importance of preparing for the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), implementing uniform operational resilience rules for financial entities throughout Europe, and its equivalents elsewhere.  This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with CJC, explores:  The challenges in the capital markets industry;  How institutions can address these challenges;  Ensuring future resilience by bridging the skills gap;  Real-world case studies;  And more. 

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FinextraTV

The Unique Needs of Both The Novice & High Net-Worth Investor

Kasey Gaines, Founder, Psalm Capital in his FinextraTV interview at the Communify Fincentric 2025 Experience gave his unique insights on two quite different investor types. Explaining both the heavy-lifting advisory needs of Hight Net-Worth investors and the importance of risk tolerance assessments for the more novice ones, his advice in both situations emphasises the importance of the financial advisor.

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Long reads

Heather Xiao

Heather Xiao Founder and CEO at Horizon Zero Ltd

The UK needs to embrace ecosystem collaboration to boost fintech

At recent Innovate Finance Global Summit in London, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a powerful message that underscored the country’s position as a global fintech leader, and the critical role of innovation in shaping its economic future. It was both a celebration of progress and a call to action. As she noted, the UK attracted $3.6 billion ...

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Trump’s first 100 days: Have his accomplishments matched his promises?

While many news organisations are taking wider views of the situation, we chose to narrow our focus to financial services industry impacts as much as possible in this view on US President Trump’s first 100 days. We explored, through extensive research across a wide political and economic spectrum, how well his pre-election promises reflect the tar...

Richard Robinson

Richard Robinson Chair at ISITC

T+1 in practice: What the industry has learned

When the U.S. officially transitioned to T+1 settlement last May, the headlines painted it as a sweeping modernisation effort — faster, leaner, and more liquid markets. In many ways, that was accurate. Broker-to-broker transactions became more efficient, capital was freed up, and the theoretical reduction in settlement risk became a tangible o...