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The Best Financial Analysis Tools for Professional Traders

In the fast-moving world of financial markets, the right analysis tools can be the difference between a profitable trade and a missed opportunity. New traders often start out with the simplest of tools—like free online stock trackers—before quickly realizing that those might not cut it if they want to scale their game and make consistent gains. Th...

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Naina Rajgopalan

Naina Rajgopalan Content Head at Freo

What is Buy and Sell Signal Software? A Guide

Buy and sell signal software is a cutting-edge tool in the world of trading, designed to assist traders and investors in making well-informed decisions about their financial endeavors. By leveraging advanced algorithms and technical analysis, this software identifies potential buy and sell opportunities in the market, providing users with valuable...

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Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

Bitcoin battles $90K: Could the Fed's potential tightening be a catalyst for the next big rally?

Bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency, is facing a turbulent start to 2025, battling to hold the $90,000 support level. After a brief surge past $100,000 earlier this year, Bitcoin has entered a correction phase, primarily influenced by macroeconomic pressures, including signals from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Fed’s role in bitcoin’s slide ...

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Fiaz Sindhu

Fiaz Sindhu Head of Community Banking at FIS

Realizing Profitable Relationships

Certain uncertainty According to a Reuters article from April 2024, “The uncertain trajectory of interest rates is making it hard for U.S. banks to forecast profits and leading some to adopt a cautious stance for the remainder of the year.” This uncertainty is very likely to continue in 2025, with a Deloitte report observing, “Bank executives wil...

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Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

Oil prices in 2025: Will geopolitical shocks or emerging markets tip the scales?

Oil prices began 2025 on a cautiously optimistic note as Brent crude rose to $75.29 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) climbed to $72.38 on the first trading day of the year. The gains came after Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged more proactive policies to promote growth in his New Year address, signaling a potential boost in fuel dem...

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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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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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Future of Report

The Future of Digital Banking in Europe 2024

A Money20/20 Special Edition. In 2023, fintech investment in the EMEA region dropped to $24.5 billion, down from $49.6 billion in 2022 – a seven year low.  Macroeconomic and global political conditions are creating challenges for growth, with upcoming general elections around the world adding to the uncertainties in financial ecosystems. Despite these challenges, the outlook for European digital banking remains positive.  The region continues to lead in innovation within the financial sector. This Finextra report, a Special Edition for Money20/20 Europe, features interviews with key players in the European financial services and fintech industries. It includes insights from Vodeno, EY, J.P. Morgan, Swift, Tink, and TrueLayer, and explores the following topics that will be addressed in Amsterdam: Hyper-personalisation: Moving towards super apps  Embedded payments driving the Banking-as-a-Service revolution  Variable recurring payments: The next step in European open banking  Is Europe ready for MiCA? From Web1 to Web3, or Markets1 to Markets3  How European fintech is facing macro challenges 

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How do you finance Natural Capital? Sustainable Finance.Live 2024 Aims to Provide Answers

In the lead-up to Sustainable Finance.Live 2024, Richard Peers, founder of Responsible Risk, discusses the event's focus on addressing how to finance Natural Capital. The event will tackle real-world sustainability challenges and drive innovation in the financial industry. Key issues include the sector's lack of understanding of Natural Capital, pricing, risks, and adapting to new regulations. By examining the "left-to-right flow of data"—utilising space data, AI, and large language models all the way to trading—the event aims to develop practical solutions. In addition a hackathon will be running, transforming ideas into impactful businesses.

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

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Warren Mutch Head of Speciality Finance at Shawbrook

A guide to finance for non-bank specialist lenders

Securing capital from a speciality finance provider can accelerate the growth of a non-bank lender’s platform. Speciality finance can be a valuable tool for non-bank lenders that want to expand their franchises. Partnering with the right speciality finance lender – that can provide flexible, long-term capital and has a broad offering to support non...

Dickson Nsofor

Dickson Nsofor Chief Executive Officer at Kora

What will it take to grow and scale embedded finance in Africa?

This is an excerpt from the Future of Embedded Finance in Africa 2025 report. Embedded finance is changing the payment landscape in Africa. With it, non-financial businesses are offering specialised services to consumers across the continent. Now, there are BNPL platforms with virtual accounts customers can fund to pay for products and services. R...