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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...
08 October 2021 /people
Roel Jansen SaaS Solutions Marketing at Temenos
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...
08 October 2021 /retail /cloud
Ron Benegbi Founder & CEO at Uplinq Financial Technologies
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 ...
30 September 2021 /inclusion /covid-19
Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs
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...
27 September 2021 /security /cloud
Nikhita Hyett Managing Director - Europe at BlueSnap
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...
22 September 2021 /payments
Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital
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...
22 September 2021 /payments /crypto
Jinder Kang Innovation Consultancy Lead at Netguru
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...
21 September 2021 /retail /predictions
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...
13 September 2021 /security
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 ...
13 September 2021 /payments /crypto
Dean Wallace Director of Consumer Payments Modernisation at ACI
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...
10 September 2021 /payments /cloud
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