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Fintech

Fintech discussions and conversations around the development of fintech.

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You might have missed it: Bitcoin at 15,000 USD and the market’s disappointment in ICO

Fundstrat chief analyst Tom Lee lowered his bitcoin forecast by the end of the year, a major Swiss stock exchange will launch a cryptocurrency ETP, Poland will impose a 19% cryptocurrency tax and other news of the last two days. At the weekend, the situation in the digital money market remained virtually unchanged, but several events occurred at ...

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Even bankers think FX margins on payments are excessive: fintech and regulation to the rescue?

For those recently travelling to Australia for Swift’s annual Sibos conference, currency exchange rates were an inevitable topic of conversation. The rates varied enormously, leading one of the major Australian banks to suggest that FX exchange rates should be regulated. A bank asking for regulation is unusual, but maybe they have a point. FX trad...

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Shaun Thomas

Shaun Thomas Product Manager at Namescan

How Taiwan has become a global leader in Anti-Money Laundering compliance

In 2016, Taipei-based Mega International Commercial Bank Co was fined a record $180 Million USD by authorities in New York, for having a “Hollow Shell” in their compliance program. As a result of this record-breaking fine, shockwaves were sent throughout Taiwan to official circles, at the same time legislators were considering new regulations t

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Anna Kuzmina

Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech

WeChat Pay in Russia

Previously, I wrote a couple of articles on Alipay and WeChat Pay, their history and strategy, their progress on the Russian ground. Not only them, Alibaba and Tencent, overall. Since then, things were constantly moving forward. FT Confidential Research, 2018 First of all, WeChat Pay continued skyrocketing, obviously getting to Alipay popularit

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Fintech and Travel - the Perfect Match

Fintech is expanding rapidly, and many companies around the world have wised up to the fact that they need to be more accepting of modern payment methods and technologies. We’re seeing some great developments in this regard, and it’s clear that this trend is going to continue with full force in the next years. Those who take full advantage of it a...

Anna Kuzmina

Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech

Polish love their banks

from Warsaw Warsaw is grey this time of the year, calm and a bit nostalgic. I always liked Polish banks, their stylish design and hands-on approach. Among EU banks — Polish are my personal favourite. At the first glance Poland is just an ordinary EU country. Everything is so well with the bank card acceptance everywhere, contactless support everyw...

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Visions become Realities: Money 2020 USA and the return to the present

As a Money 20/20 series regular, arriving at this year’s show in the ever-buzzing Las Vegas, I prepared myself for four days packed with futuristic visions and startling concepts for how we might be paying in fifty years’ time. Bizarrely refreshingly, however, was the return to the near future. Or, rather, the realization that those topics once co...

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How Real Estate Fintech Is Likely Going to Evolve in the Near Future

Fintech has taken over the financial industry, and it looks like we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg here, as more changes are coming in the near future. The real estate sector is one that’s been particularly noticeably affected by the recent advances of fintech, and it’s important to pay attention to current trends if one wants to secure a s...

Sarah Jackson

Sarah Jackson Director at Equiniti Credit Services

Credit Chameleon: tuning in to changing attitudes

It is said that in time everything changes. Certainly, how most of us feel about borrowing money is likely to change, possibly many times, over the course of our lives. Lenders keen to secure repeat business, therefore, must also change. This means innovating in product design. It also means keeping close track of how their customers’ attitudes a...

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The case for Cloud migration in financial services

Historically, cloud-migration is a concept that has sat uncomfortably with financial service providers. Even today, 15-years or so years after cloud-computing became available, lingering concerns remain. Yet much of the technology underpinning today’s banking systems is founded on outdated architecture and monolithic applications that are proving t...

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