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Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
The African houses more than a billion people today, and yet the entirety of the continent seems to suffer from the state of being ignored. The continent, while currently underdeveloped and in parts still in turmoil, has many nations that are actually in the state of becoming rising democracies and growing economies. Yet, as the counties on the co...
05 July 2019 /inclusion
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At last weekend's G20 summit, global leaders focused on the digital economy and artificial intelligence. Their policy priorities seek to accelerate the penetration of these technologies into the global economy. The implications for trade policy and multilateral policy are significant as discussed in the Atlantic Council post below (https://www.a...
02 July 2019 /ai /payments
Paul Hampton Security Expert at Thales
Cryptocurrencies have come a long way from the initial emergence of Bitcoin. In fact, the meteoric rise of its value last year, coupled with JP Morgan venture into the space and Fakebook’s imminent launch, means that mainstream awareness is at an all-time high. However, whilst this may the case, uptake of cryptocurrencies hasn’t been in its masses...
26 June 2019 /security /inclusion
If 2018 was the year of GDPR, 2019 is the year of European Payment Services Directive (PSD2) – particularly for those working in the payments, banking or retail sectors. Last year, PSD2 banned surcharges for processing card transactions, forcing many companies to absorb the additional cost for these transactions. Whilst many took the financial hit...
24 June 2019 /payments /regulation
Andrew Gauvin CEO at Freeport Metrics, Inc.
By Andrew Gauvin and Iurii Oliiar, Freeport Metrics If your business relies on selling anything online, payment is central to your company’s success. A web security strategy is no longer enough – following are seven factors to consider when securing mobile payment apps. 1. Invest in Native Mobile Not Just for Better UX, but Also for the Best Securi...
19 June 2019 /security /payments
1. Collection of data in its original form Frequent modifications on the original source data makes it difficult for marketers to pre-determine the use of data for their marketing strategies. So it is important to store customer data in its original form to ensure that the data can be useful in the future. A Customer Data Platform designed for fin...
18 June 2019 /wholesale
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
A recent article in Raconteur's "Future of Banking" supplement in The Sunday Times (U.K.) posed the following question: "Can banks and fintechs ever work together?" The short answer is of course yes, they can – but with a number of essential caveats that need to be considered in order to promote harmony and success with these ty...
13 June 2019
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
Fraud is an ongoing headache for the insurance industry. The Association of British Insurers reported that the industry detected 113,000 dishonest insurance claims in 2017, equating to a value of £1.3bn. The total number of detected insurance frauds, which also accounts for practices such as lying when applying for cover or ‘ghost broking’, was o...
10 June 2019 /ai
When it comes to fintech, the centre of the world is not the USA or the UK or Europe, it’s Africa. This is something that African tech-sector entrepreneurs such as Mzi Khumalo, Sibusiso Shabalala, and Segun Adeyemi know all too well. Here are just three reasons why fintech, the people who embrace it and the companies that create it, are the posi...
10 June 2019
Part one of this network series highlighted some recent network incidents that impacted the internet and public cloud providers and proliferated the wariness of public cloud. There’s no doubt that outage occurrences will continue to take place across the globe. Bad actors Financial firms need to be particularly security conscious due to the sensit...
06 June 2019 /security /cloud
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