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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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Hugo Gomez

Hugo Gomez Co-Founder & CEO at Bourgeois Bohème

Managing Generational Shifts: How The World’s Wealthiest Families Can Adapt to These Changing Times

In recent years, the priorities of ultra-high-net-worth families have undergone a clear shift. While preserving capital remains important, the conversation today increasingly turns to legacy, purpose, and long-term resilience. The most sophisticated families are redefining what wealth stewardship means — driven by a generational shift, market vola...

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Sam Boboev

Sam Boboev Founder at Fintech Wrap Up

Deep Dive: Robinhood’s Full-Stack Fintech Transformation

On March 27, 2025, Robinhood made waves again. At its second annual Gold Keynote, the company unveiled three major products—Robinhood Strategies, Robinhood Banking, and Robinhood Cortex—all designed to bring private banking and professional-grade investing tools to everyday users. Robinhood Strategies offers personalized, expert-managed portfolio

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Nkahiseng Ralepeli

Nkahiseng Ralepeli VP of Product: Digital Assets at Absa Bank, CIB.

From Fringe to Foundation: Coinbase’s Debut Signals Crypto’s Coming of Age

For years, digital assets carried a whiff of skepticism in traditional finance circles – a perceived “taboo stain” that serious institutions were hesitant to touch. Many remembered the early days of Bitcoin’s wild price swings, high-profile exchange hacks, and regulators sounding alarms. Crypto companies struggled for mainstream respect; a large p...

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Julie Bourgeois

Julie Bourgeois Head of Legal and Compliance at 6 Monks

Governing Alt-Assets in Europe: A Level Playing Field

With AIFMD II implementation, MiCA enforcement for crypto assets, and SFDR refinements shaping the landscape, regulators are expected to increase scrutiny on risk management, ESG transparency, and fund liquidity, while industry bodies push for more harmonization across jurisdictions. The challenge remains balancing investor protection with the fle...

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The Future of European Fintech 2025: A Money20/20 Special Edition

A special edition for Money20/20 Europe 2025. The European fintech space is seeing leaps and bounds in digital innovation, financial technology, and operational resilience. With incoming regulation focused on standarising the sector and disruptive fintech firms challenging banks - the ecosystem is in a transitional period.  Among these challenges, the fintech boom is sweeping the continent. New developments in AI, tokenisation, digital identity, open banking, and more is redefining the banking sector. Europe is primed to act as the epicentre for global fintech innovation.  This Finextra report dives into industry sentiment on what the future holds for European fintech, featuring key insights from NatWest Group, Standard Chartered, BNY Mellon, Magnetiq Bank, GoCardless, Moore Kingston Smith, Stripe, and Augmentum Fintech. It explores:  AI and predictive analytics integration in payments;  Enabling financial inclusion and accessibility in emerging markets;  The role of digital identity and behavioural biometrics in financial services;  Innovation in regulatory practices;  The revolutionary power of smart data and decentralised finance. 

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Don’t go extinct - How Wealth Managers can remain relevant

Transformation drivers and actions to prioritise Until recently, the wealth management industry in the UK has been largely homogeneous, with most traditional firms offering similar products and services to similar customers under similar business models. Fintech has been chipping away at these norms for a few years, but even in 2021, traditional wealth managers with rudimentary digital tools still dominate the market.  However, the pace of change has accelerated in the last year.  Newcomers are arriving in droves with engaging customer experiences, new technology and convergent services that address the historical limitations of the wealth industry, while opening new doors to new opportunities.  Now Covid-19 has put the industry into the spotlight, exposing some enduring weaknesses and highlighting the need for modernisation.  In a post-pandemic world, wealth management companies that are willing to innovate will begin to pull sharply away from those that are stuck in the past. Everyone hoping to remain relevant in this space - banks, advisory firms, asset managers, investment managers and technology providers - must be ready to drive transformation or risk extinction.  Download your copy of this Finextra impact study, produced in association with Cognizant, to learn more.   

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The Future of ESGTech 2022

Employing Data to Deliver on the UN's SDGs The unrealised potential for data to serve fertile, yet dormant, use cases is limitless. Therefore, empowering the reclaiming and repurposing of data is paramount if data is to lead to all people living in peace and prosperity. This endeavour has not progressed due to the entities holding data being unwilling to exchange data over concerns around data protection and security or the prioritisation of the desire to capture direct returns on investment. Others may also be reluctant to share data in hope they gain market power or competitive advantage. In financial services, this has not been the case. With the second Payments Services Directive or PSD2, banks are required to open access to data and share with other organisations. This has increased transparency of pricing, improved security through authentication and verification and encouraged banks to use application programming interfaces (APIs) for this disclosure of information. This shift to a digital economy will continue and will result in an attraction to a platform where financial data can be used to offer value-added services to other industries. One example would be open finance, an API-enabled offering, now facilitates the sharing of financial products, data, and services between independent parties, going beyond the regulatory requirements set out around open banking. By utilising APIs, financial institutions can implement open finance solutions to offer people greater product choice and control over their finances and data. Repurposing different types of data can amplify the impact of data on economic, environmental, or cultural development, can help fill information gaps and cultivate new perspectives. However, the world is behind schedule on achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. This report will focus on specific targets, however, not all, and consider how environmental, social and governance (ESG) data can be utilised by financial institutions and fintech firms to achieve the SDGs and ensure global communities can migrate to a circular global economy.

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Why It's So Important To Approach Technology Development Differently

While speaking with FinextraTV at the Communify Fincentric Experience 2025, Will Bailey, President of International Sales, Communify Fincentric explained the way technology is developing. From Deterministic AI to blockchain, Bailey discusses how best to leverage these technologies and the most effective approach to early adoption.

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Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

What Shackleton’s strategic expansion means for UK wealth management

As reported by Financial News this week, a document seen by the publication revealed that Shackleton explored a takeover deal that could have tripled the amount of money it manages. The wealth manager, that oversees a portfolio of £5.5 billion, had discussions with a larger rival that managed £10 billion at the time and a smaller firm with £2 bil...

Scott Hamilton

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

How Robinhood’s new and improved banking offering is a wake-up call to the industry

Is it an investment, a deposit, a delivery service, a game, or a gamble? Or perhaps, all of the above? Questions like these are being asked more frequently by savvy consumers - and in some cases business leaders and competitors - about the plethora of new hybrid financial services providers and their increasingly ‘mixed’ portfolios of spending, sav...

Brendan Gallen

Brendan Gallen Partner at Reed Smith LLP

What’s behind the record highs in secondary market trading?

Secondary market trade volumes soared to record levels last year, signalling an ongoing and noticeable shift in investor sentiment and portfolio management strategies. A secondary market transaction occurs when an investor buys or sells an existing stake in a private equity fund, venture capital vehicle, or other alternative asset. Secondaries tra...