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Rishi Chauhan Strategy Director at Haydon & Company Limited
This blog builds on the last blog, that can be found here[1]. The reader may wish to read the last one for context, although this blog should make sense on its own as well. Here, the attempt is to answer the following key question - what could financial technology companies (fintechs) do, to build greater consumer or SME (customer) trust in order...
26 February 2020
This blog attempts to answer the following key questions at a high level: What could financial technology companies (fintechs) do to enable greater consumer or SME (customer) adoption of their products and services beyond early adopters? What could fintechs do to pull under-served and well-served customers away from incumbent banks and established...
24 February 2020 /startups
Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur
Mobile-based fintech solutions are becoming the first port of call for many financial services, as people embrace the simplicity, cost-effectiveness and speed of mobile payments. Milennials and Gen-Zers admire mobile experiences they get with banking, payroll, customer loyalty apps and others. However, digital fraud is rising as fast, if not faste...
18 February 2020 /security
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Citibank is one of the most active larger banks that actively tries to follow the trends and the demands of their customers and for the longest time, the prime request for their customer has been more present in fintech. Last year Citibank was involved in one of the biggest fintech projects, partnering up with Google on Google Pay and backing all...
17 February 2020 /inclusion
Earlier last month, news feeds were abuzz about a major acquisition within the financial industry, when Visa purchased fintech startup - Plaid, for a substantial sum of $5.3 billion. Although major news, for the majority of the readers this was the first time they have heard about Plaid, raising the questions of how could this company that many ha...
11 February 2020 /inclusion
Retired Member
Developments in the digital space are changing the dynamics of the remittance market, driving it on a steady upward curve. According to the World Bank, in 2018, remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) amounted to $529 billion – an increase of 9.6% over the previous year. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countr...
03 February 2020 /inclusion
As we enter the next decade it is useful to reflect on what the emerging trends in financial technology will be for 2020, enabling banks and financial institutions to prepare for the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead. The impact of regulation Regulation will continue to dominate the banking and finance landscape of 2020. The introducti...
27 January 2020
Mike Kiser Senior Identity Strategist at SailPoint
The moment of reckoning has come. A party of eight sit around a table, the white tablecloth strewn with the detritus of a communal meal. Coffee is slowly sipped as they contemplate how to divide the bill. Unlike in years past, this is a simple operation: mobile devices come out and money is rapidly exchanged as modern technology facilitates a mult...
24 January 2020 /security
2019 saw a lot of big companies getting into fintech and trying to develop their own innovations or invest in the right startups across the world. We’ve seen some companies do it right and many do it very wrong. It is a shaky industry in terms of what works and what doesn’t. When companies like Goldman and Sachs decide to go into something that d...
21 January 2020 /inclusion
A big part of why fintechs are taking up so much of the space in the financial industry is because of their lending practices. Online lending technology combines all the positive attributes that fintechs have and banks lack and allows for people with bad credit to access loans and possibly get out of the bad financial cycle. 2019 was a big year fo...
18 January 2020 /startups
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