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Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
The pandemic has certainly scaled up the demand for digital financial services worldwide, and Latin America is not an exception. But was that true before 2020? Historically, the region had always been challenged economically and politically. A huge mountainous territory and frequent natural disasters neither contributed to rapid growth. Neolibera...
12 March 2021 /retail /markets
Dmitry Dolgorukov CEO at GiniMachine
On the one hand, the Covid-19 pandemic has paralyzed much of our day-to-day lives, with billions experiencing its health effects directly or indirectly. Businesses have suffered, with one estimate this past fall showing that up to 60% of temporary closures could be permanent. On the other hand, things are looking up. The predicted recession is tu...
11 March 2021 /predictions
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Before the financial crisis (especially in the 90s) it seemed that the banking landscape was strongly consolidating, resulting in a handful of Tier-1 (often international) banks in every country. After the financial crisis, many specialists predicted that due to the rising costs for compliance and lower revenues due to low interest rates and increa...
10 March 2021 /retail /predictions
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
With most financial services employees now working from home, one challenge that is having a profound effect on productivity is decreased collaboration. Modern communication tools and video calls have been indispensable, but the distributed nature of today’s workforce is resulting in teams struggling to work together to solve business and customer...
04 March 2021 /people /retail
As a means of securing capital with profit performance, investments had been a reliable source of passive income for several centuries. Ten years ago the world saw a new investment vehicle emerge in addition to gold, real estate and mineral resources – cryptocurrencies. Coming first was bitcoin whose success was ardently disputed but it continues ...
22 February 2021 /crypto /markets
Paul Shumsky Founder at @Finpace.tech
Demand for Fintech and digital banking products, already rising steeply before the COVID-19 pandemic set in last year, was given even greater impetus during 2020 and is likely to have gained years of ground in what has been an extraordinary year. Moreover, it is expected that virtual payment and banking solutions will take the lead in the financia...
22 February 2021 /crypto /predictions
Retired Member
Digitise processes across the client lifecycle for frictionless remediation As remediation gathers pace, wealth managers must further accelerate digitisation to avoid resource-intensive distractions that impact sales. By February 2020 wealth managers began realising that digitisation was a pre-requisite to thriving or even surviving the Covid-19 pa...
18 February 2021 /regulation /wealth
After a turbulent year businesses are looking for some bulletproof guidance and inspiration, wealth management is no exception. There is no doubt that the Covid-19 has changed the world for ever, but let's not make the pandemic a scapegoat for the woes of asset and wealth management organisations. Prior to the pandemic, the wealth management sect
10 February 2021 /wealth /predictions
The Middle East is one of the world's most heterogeneous regions, spanning three continents and 21 countries, with a population of close to 600 million. It is a culturally, politically and economically diverse region that also encompasses the six Arab states that are members of the Gulf Coordination Council. This diversity is reflected in the vast...
07 February 2021 /markets /predictions
Mustafa Aktaş Product Management Payment Systems Platform Vice P at BKM
Realtime payments have been a hot topic in payments world for the last two decades. It’s because even if the current RTGS systems allow the funds to be transferred between parties they do not finalize the transaction in realtime which is a critical need in todays world as the daily life is becoming faster and payment relations need immidiate resul...
30 January 2021 /payments /retail
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