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Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
Just when you are simply unable to get onboard the right resources from your area or just when you want to hire skilled resources without paying a premium, you may decide to go remote hiring. There are two challenges involved in this. First of all, hiring a skilled team of offshore developers is not always easy and secondly, managing a remote deve...
20 October 2021 /startups /markets
Retired Member
CBDCs are important to the future of the financial industry and cooperation is needed with digital assets for success. Sibos, the world’s premier financial services event organised by SWIFT, held virtually in October 2021 has been rife with discussions surrounding central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and their place in the future of the industry...
18 October 2021 /payments /crypto
Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs
In fintech, user’s data protection is among the top priorities requested by regulations, but surprisingly they are mapped onto real-world risks. As a data security engineer, I can say that while it might look like much work to comply with GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS, FFIEC, etc., these regulations exist not to add problems but to prevent them and protect ...
18 October 2021 /security /regulation
Vivek Dubey Industry Engagement Innovation-Associate Director at Capgemeini
FinTech is a very vast and interesting domain, and with the introduction of new technologies every day it is taking huge leaps. The acceptability index of consumers giving confidence to startups to come up with the real disruptions. Improving Financial services with the help of new-age technologies and regulations is FinTech. That defines the bas...
16 October 2021 /payments /inclusion
Richard Arundel Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist at Currencycloud
There are plenty of cliches about careers in finance, one of which is that traditional finance firms can be pretty stuffy, structured, and hierarchical environments. And, like all cliches, there’s a strong element of truth in there. Fintech carries its own cliches, of course. These are creative environments with a relaxed dress code – think fun a...
15 October 2021 /people /predictions
Jackie Barwell Director at ACI Worldwide
Fraud rates in the UK have been climbing to new record heights, so much so that the UK’s industry body UK Finance has been talking for the first time about fraud posing a national security threat. According to latest figures, £754m was stolen from bank customers during the first half of this year - a 30% rise compared to the same period in 2020. S...
14 October 2021 /payments /crime
Forward-looking banks are shifting their mindsets and including products and services from third parties that over-deliver on increasing customer needs. Innovation in the financial services sector is thriving and a new trend is fast approaching. It has less to do with core banking technologies and much more to do with integrating tech services. Thi...
12 October 2021 /payments /crypto
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
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