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Digital commerce will increase, and so will fraud In 2020 we saw many firsts, which affected every person on the planet. ‘Lockdown’ became part of our everyday language and as we acclimatised to being home and not having access to brick-and-mortar stores, we looked for alternative channels to source the things we need. Almost as soon as we went in...
10 February 2021 /security /inclusion
Sheza Gary Project Strategiest at Self Employed
Source - statista 2021 The January Effect relates to a seasonal tendency for equities to rise during the month of January. It is attributed to an increase in buying activity, proceeding a drop in December, when tax loss harvesting is undertaken by investors for offsetting capital gains. The numbers tend to suggest that the January Effect is rega
08 February 2021 /markets
Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital
Widespread digital asset adoption, BTC to compete with AUX, China’s CBDC rollout and EU regulation Bitcoin (BTC) has rallied to record highs yet, institutional investment remains cautiously low. Top financiers cautious yet optimistic about digital asset adoption in 2021 Jeff Currie, Goldman Sach’s Head of Commodities Research, said that more mone...
03 February 2021 /payments /predictions
Doug Gross CEO at NGDATA
2021 will be the year we learn from 2020, and banks will be no exception. Last year, digital services were put to the test. If they weren’t up to scratch customers went elsewhere and businesses missed out. The Pandemic has Accelerated the Rate of Digital Adoption The rate of adoption of digital services, across generations in particular, was way a...
29 January 2021 /retail /identity
Ivan Kot Solution Consultant at Itransition
The last decade saw automation steadily strengthening its positions in offices across the globe. Investing in business management process consulting, enterprises have increasingly streamlined various cumbersome workflows, reaping productivity and cost optimization benefits in return. However, amid this persistent corporate automation trend, financ...
29 January 2021 /devops
Conchur Gill Associate Partner, Payments at Be | Shaping The Future
Interchange is a relatively niche area in card payments. Understanding of the topic amongst the general public is minimal, and rightfully so. Surprisingly, misunderstanding of interchange is also commonplace in the payments industry. This general lack of understanding on interchange can partly explain the media’s negative reporting on the news t...
27 January 2021 /payments /retail
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Since its introduction, the rise of financial technology is unstoppable. A lot of consumers and countries around the world are increasingly adopting fintech. And all its products and companies are on a fast rise. Research showed that between 2015 and 2019, consumer use of fintech globally increased a whopping 75% as more and more people prefer thi...
21 January 2021
Delivery of intuitive, secure, personalised, and frictionless user experiences has long been table stakes in digital commerce, well before the era of COVID-19. As businesses harness the revolutionary power of digital technologies, they have pursued large-scale change to adapt to evolving consumer preferences (some more successfully than others, bu...
19 January 2021 /payments /covid-19
Michael Pearson Founder at Clarus Investments
Some sources, such as CB Insights, are reporting that venture capital investment in fintech has remained robust during the pandemic. After an initial dip in the second quarter of 2020, funding levels recovered quite rapidly with some large, later stage funding rounds driving the market. However, first round investment for companies trying to get s...
18 January 2021 /startups /covid-19
No-code platforms allows programmers and non-programmers to create application software through graphical user interfaces and configuration instead of tradition computer programming. (Source: Wikipedia) No-code platforms have seen tremendous growth in the recent years and Forrester predicts that the market will grow from $3.8 billion in 2017 to $2...
17 January 2021 /payments
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