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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
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
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
Retired Member
The relationship between the financial markets and the investor is quietly, but fundamentally, changing. A series of regulatory changes has or will require clients to be treated fairly (TCF), ensure they are better informed (MiFID II), and fully encouraged to participate in the long-term sustainability of the assets they own (SRD II). Each of the
14 January 2020 /wealth /markets
Rowland Park CEO at Limeglass Limited
We are living in an age of information overload where businesses are swamped with information from all angles. What happens when companies don’t use information in the best way possible? Rowland Park and Simon Gregory, co-founders of next-generation financial research technology company, Limeglass, argue that the true cost of not optimising financ...
08 January 2020 /markets
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Worldwide, the evolutions in technology are accelerating exponentially. Almost every day, new technologies are discovered, and new products are released. This trend will accelerate even more, as: People all over the world are becoming more educated, allowing more people to participate in the advancement of science and technology Companies realiz...
07 January 2020
In 2019 the fintechs finally managed to become the talk of the town. They expanded their reach, improved the lives of millions and finally this year they got the recognition for what they’ve done and what they can still do. One of the main topics of the conversation this year was the tension between fintech and banks, but more so than that it's th...
30 December 2019 /payments /inclusion
Gabe McGloin Head of Business Development EMEA at Verifi at Verifi Inc
Christmas is well and truly on it's way, and that can only mean one thing: the e-commerce world is heating up thanks to copious amounts of Christmas shopping. Looking back to 2017, mobile sales accounted for 34.5% of all e-commerce sales. By 2021, mobile sales are forecast to account for 54% of total e-commerce sales. Whilst these figures present ...
27 December 2019 /payments
This year has been a huge success for South Africa and Africa in general as well in terms of gaining a reputation for innovative technologies, embracing financial innovations and producing unicorn startups. This year we’ve seen many services and products come out of South Africa that have impressed the rest of the world and now we’re seeing more a...
26 December 2019 /inclusion
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
May you live in interesting times, so goes the Chinese curse. 2019 has certainly been an interesting year for insurers. Going into 2020, the industry is grappling with the fallout from disastrous weather events, and with chastisement from regulators in the UK on how insurers must do a better job in delivering value to customers. Nonetheless, the ...
23 December 2019 /cloud
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