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Fintech

Fintech discussions and conversations around the development of fintech.

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Building greenfield challenger banks is a major opportunity for issuer processors

When faced with disruptive competition – the now classic example is taxi companies and Uber – a firm at risk of disruption has effectively got three options: - Adapt; use the facilities available to you today to try and stay competitive. For example, offer discounts or change pricing; - Add; create new capabilities, either by your...

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Fintech and the Software Testing Challenge

Software testing is regularly subject to trade-offs - that is, attempting to cover as much of a codebase as is possible given time and resource constraints. Sometimes known bugs slip through to release and go unfixed because they are deemed low-risk. Within fintech, even small bugs can have serious repercussions for a development team… and for the...

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Beating payments fraud in 2021

The key types of digital payments fraud, ecommerce risk management tactics, and the tools to fight back When it comes to digital payments, ensuring that all genuine transactions are processed smoothly while avoiding fraudulent ones can feel like a constant battle. As preventative technology evolves so does fraud, which is why constant vigilance ...

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Denis Ostapchenya

Denis Ostapchenya Head of Financial Services at Andersen

Why Banks Should Take Cryptocurrencies Seriously

Not long ago, traditional banks made a mistake. Due to inertness and conservatism, the world's largest financial organizations have missed out on the rapid growth of FinTech. Banks had to implement new solutions post-factum and in a rush, which cost them a share of the market which was taken over by young and daring FinTech companies. And now bank...

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Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

Cameroon's fintech landscape

As the world changes, so too does innovations and technologies change and improve, in order to make life easier and convenient. This is clearly seen in the financial sector as many financial institutions are trying to adopt innovative and high-speed financial standards for the public. Fintech is short for financial technology. These are digital in...

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4 frauds to watch out for this peak season

Unfortunately genuine customers are not the only ones shopping with customers this peak season. Fraudsters are also busy this time of year. To help identify potentnail fraud, here are four common online fraud types and how retailers can avoid falling victim to them. 1. Account takeover This is when fraudsters take over an existing customer accou...

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Retail and payments in the COVID-19 era: how retailers can survive the second lockdown

While every sector has been affected by COVID-19 in some way, the retail industry has experienced one of the most dramatic shifts of all. With the UK and much of Europe in a second lockdown many bricks-and-mortar outlets are being forced to close their doors once again and many retailers are fearing the changes that will come from this. Back in Ma...

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Matthew Williamson

Matthew Williamson Vice President of Global Financial Services at Mobiquity

The bank of the future

COVID-19 and the rise of digital banking With social distancing guidelines still in place to reduce the transmission rate of COVID-19, many consumers have replaced visits to bank branches with digital banking solutions. Research by Finder shows that nearly a quarter (23%) of Britons opened an account with a digital-only bank this year. Even though...

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Roel Jansen

Roel Jansen SaaS Solutions Marketing at Temenos

The Core Banking Transition Path Is Being Paved

The transition to next generation applications for core banking is a significant challenge for any incumbent bank. Globally banks spend millions of dollars annually on maintaining their core banking landscape. Largely, these systems are based on technology from the pre-internet era, not seldomly written in historic code languages like Cobol. Stil...

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John Cragg

John Cragg Chief Executive Officer at MYHSM

Are challenger banks challenging banking?

No longer new entities in the banking space, challenger and neo banks are now acquiring significant market share in the banking world. In fact, the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of these banking sectors currently stands at 46.5% - a not so insignificant portion of the market. And with this set to increase further – to over $394m by 2026, no l...

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