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Agne Klimaviciene

Agne Klimaviciene Fintech Lead at Invest Lithuania

What awaits Lithuania's Fintech sector?

The Lithuanian Fintech sector has come a long way since it took its first decisive steps into becoming a globally renowned hub around the time of Brexit in 2016. Companies needed a jurisdiction to keep serving companies in the European Union, and Lithuania took this opportunity seriously. After all, every crisis, even a rupture of long-standing e

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Dmytro Spilka

Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter

How Trade Uncertainty is Driving a Global Supply Chain Diversification Initiative

The announcement of sweeping tariffs on global trading partners by United States President Donald Trump has sent shockwaves through long-standing supply chains. It’s also inspired a widespread push among global firms to diversify their sourcing practices. Trump’s so-called ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs have been a major source of disruption for supply ...

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Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

Will Trump’s tariff war keep gold glowing?

Just when investors thought they could catch a breather after the Fed’s latest move, Donald Trump decided it was time to stir things up again. Welcome back to the thrilling theme park ride known as the U.S.-China trade war - fasten your seatbelts, folks, because Trump’s tariff train isn’t slowing down! Trump recently confirmed he’s holding firm on...

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Olivier Lens

Olivier Lens Head of Sub Sahara Africa at Swift

How harmonised global standards are helping African businesses scale beyond borders

Africa is entering a new era of digital economic opportunity. The continent’s internet economy is projected to contribute nearly $180 billion to GDP this year, accounting for around 5.2% of total output, according to a study by Google and the International Finance Corporation. From fintech startups to global e-commerce ventures, African businesses...

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Ivo Mertens

Ivo Mertens Chief Revenue Officer at iBanFirst

USD can’t have it all

As the global tariff war wages on, businesses dealing in international trade are set for a prolonged period of uncertainty. The ongoing war ignited by Donald Trump resembles a high-stakes boxing match – one that’s set to go the full 12 rounds. Imagine two of America’s most iconic fighters: Floyd Mayweather, an agile middleweight with unmatched spee...

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Research

Survey

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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Event Report

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

How Payments Modernisation Will Sustain UK’s Fintech Crown

In this FinextraTV interview, Helena Forest, EVP, Global Product & Commercial, Real Time Payments, Visa gives her opinion on the current state of the payments landscape in the UK. Modernisation, regulatory compliance, collaboration and the governments National Payments Vision all feature as reasons to be optimistic.

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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...

Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Canada’s 2025 federal election and the fintech frontier: Risks and reforms

As Canada’s federal election approaches on 28 April 2025, the financial services sector could be standing at a pivotal juncture. The BBC reported a record-breaking early voter turnout with 7.3 million Canadians casting their ballots a week ahead of election day. Polling has suggested that Liberal former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor M...