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Fintech

Fintech discussions and conversations around the development of fintech.

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Does London’s fintech scene rely on the fortunes of the City?

In recent months the media has built a narrative that sees fintech’s fortune rise, while the City has been hit by a string of bad news stories: most notably the lack of a post-Brexit equivalency deal. The narrative isn’t just a media spin. Serious players, such as TheCityUK, an industry body representing the financial and professional services s...

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Roel Jansen

Roel Jansen SaaS Solutions Marketing at Temenos

Money2020 Europe: Takeaways as we finally meet in real life.

Last month's Money 20/20 Europe was the first large-scale event in the Fintech industry after COVID-19. As usual, it delivered an outstanding line-up of brands and thought leaders. Here are my takeaways and insights regarding the most significant gathering of the European fintech community in 2021. Happy to see you again! Now that we can ease m...

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Ron Benegbi

Ron Benegbi Founder & CEO at Uplinq Financial Technologies

An altered landscape: How the pandemic changed how SMBs operate

The complexion of the SMB landscape is regularly subject to change. Disruptive market entrants, new technologies, and fluctuations in the economy, represent just a handful of the influences that can force SMBs to revise their business models. However, as we have learnt over the last two years, even the most dramatic of these influences pales into ...

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Pavlo Farb

Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs

4 data security tips when you lift and shift

Check if you take these security points into consideration before you migrate to the cloud. While you move your infrastructure into the cloud (“lift and shift”), your security assumptions also go through the change, since the on-prem threat model and security priorities are very different from cloud-based. And it’s always less stressful to get wel...

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Nikhita Hyett

Nikhita Hyett Managing Director - Europe at BlueSnap

The growing subscription economy

The UK’s subscription economy has accelerated over the last year, driven largely by the coronavirus pandemic. As stores closed due to the multiple lockdowns, businesses and consumers sought more flexible and convenient ways to sell and purchase goods and services. This shift towards subscriptions will only grow in the years to come. Increased adop...

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Sean Salloux

Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital

The SWIFT Payment Network & Its Alternatives

Everything you need to know about SWIFT plus the alternative networks revolutionising payments. Today, it seems like funds can be transferred instantly across borders. But the vast majority of international payments take place between banks using the SWIFT network. Still called a “wire transfer” by some, the SWIFT network is the infrastructure unde...

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Jinder Kang

Jinder Kang Innovation Consultancy Lead at Netguru

Fintech Meets Retail: How to Improve Commerce With Finance Innovation

The worlds of fintech and retail have always been connected. As technology advances, they are becoming even closer, both grappling with changes in consumer behaviors. A new ‘always-on’ customer combined with innovations is driving this new proximity. The growth of multi-screening habits, where online users consume content and information via a var...

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Pavlo Farb

Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs

Store data encrypted and search encrypted data

How to keep your data encrypted and still be able to securely search over it, without constraining the app architecture? In data security, we say “you should try searchable encryption!” Let’s shine a new light on it here! Here’s an example. You store valuable encrypted data (like PII and fin data) in a database. Some app backend interacts with a da...

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Sean Salloux

Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital

Major UK Financial Firms Embrace Digital Assets

Digital assets will replace traditional currency in 10 years, London firms say. The attitude among the financial community is warming towards digital assets for a variety of reasons. Interest in blockchain-powered financial services has peaked in line with the rise in popularity of digital assets combined with concerns over Brexit’s impact on the ...

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Dean Wallace

Dean Wallace Director of Consumer Payments Modernisation at ACI

Steps to progressive platform modernisation

There’s no doubt banks need to modernise legacy systems to keep up with today’s demand, but the risk of big bang migrations (moving an entire dataset from legacy to targeted systems in one operation) has never been higher. And it’s proving to be a blocker for progressive platform modernisation. The arrival of non-bank providers, including Big Tech...

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