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Trends in Financial Services

A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.

Saloni Ramakrishna

Saloni Ramakrishna Author; Senior Director at Oracle

Climate change risk management – whose job is it anyway?

Well, the answer is obvious isn’t it – it is “EVERYBODY’s, you would say. There lies the difficulty. One of the first management lesson’s is never to make any job “everybody’s” as it has two risks inherently. Either it becomes everybody’s and nobody’s at the same time, resulting in an impasse or the boundaries and the gaps in-between one group to ...

/regulation /sustainable

Roel Mels

Roel Mels Global Head of Marketing at TRG Screen

2022: A transformative year in financial market data?

2022: A transformative year in financial market data? Five themes to watch in ever-changing data market Increasingly complex data poses risks for unwary “The Great Resignation”, staffing and admin overload Post-Covid inflation highlights need to curb costs Hybrid workforce brings compliance headaches, weighty admin burden Managed services market f...

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Small and Medium Enterprise Finance Trends Fintech Leaders Should Watch: 2022 Edition

The last two years have been tumultuous for nearly everyone. From mandated closures, lockdowns, anxieties around health and work, and well… the general state of the world, things have not been easy. This is especially true for small and medium businesses, who have not only had to deal with all of this, but also worries about whether their business...

/startups /predictions

Gleb Kozlov

Gleb Kozlov CEO at KoronaPay

Four Snapshots Shaping Cross-Border Remittance Market in 2022

Over the past two challenging years, the remittance industry proved to be amazingly resilient and investment in fintech in general has reached unprecedented levels. 2022 begins with a promise of a fresh start in Europe. With the economies gradually recovering from the pandemic and labour migration a priority, we hope to see the number of labour mi...

/payments /predictions

Shaju Nair

Shaju Nair Payments SME, Product Manager at Temenos

An ocean of Money, a sea of Debt - and the CBDC lifeboat

The world today is awash with money. The global broad money supply is reaching $ 90 Trillion, the United States alone contributing about $ 30 Trillion. Roughly 30% of US money supply was added in the last 2 years - with rest of nations also been adding similar quantities in recent past in their natural objective to be competitive in international...

/payments /wholesale

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2022’s FinTech battle will be infrastructure-focused

FinTechs have one main advantage in the market - flexibility. They have been able to move quickly to develop new features and roll them out before traditional banks could. Now however, we see traditional banks rolling out those same features. In 2022, the winners will be those with the infrastructure clout to seize new opportunities ahead. The chal...

/payments /retail

Sebastian Meyer

Sebastian Meyer Experienced Sales and Business Development Leader at tbd

TRENDS AND CHANGES IN ENERGY AND COMMODITY TRADING

The energy and commodity markets are constantly changing, and have recently experienced extreme fluctuations in price due to global gas shortages, post-lockdown industrial demand, and low wind generation in Europe. Whilst volatility is expected in energy trading markets, market participants such as utilities, industrial firms and trading houses ar...

/markets

Harriet Christie

Harriet Christie Chief Operating Officer at Mirrorweb

FINRA Reviews Rules Around Social Media Influencers - We Can’t Say They Didn't Warn Us

On July 22nd, FINRA CEO Robert Cook revealed that a sweep related to financial services influencers ‘is coming’. It eventually arrived in September, hot on the heels of the SEC requesting comment on the ‘digital engagement practices’ used by investment advisers and broker-dealers. The SEC was most interested in how tools are used that appeal to in...

/regulation /people

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Three ways Europe’s startup financing is maturing into a new type of capital market

It’s been a boom year for startup financing in Europe, which is great news because the world needs innovative startups to take on the big challenges it's facing, from pandemic recovery to climate change. But what I’m really excited about is how much the world of startup finance has matured this year. Founders now have an even wider ranging of opti...

/startups /predictions

Timothy Loy Sutherland

Timothy Loy Sutherland Senior Director Cloud Enablement and Architecture at Finastra

The power of DevOps self-service platforms: How standard tools and tech increase developer velocity

By now, most organisations in the business of delivering software will likely have a DevOps strategy. Even if adoption is only partial, the maturity of DevOps enables firms to improve delivery by implementing the tools and practices across their organisation that best suit their needs. Once the benefits of DevOps are realised, the business case f...

/cloud /devops

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