71 Results from 2019, /inclusion
Marcus Martinez Industry Advisor, Worldwide FSI at Microsoft
The first wave of Open Banking was characterised by a steep learning curve for the nine largest UK banks. The new technology standard created challenges in all organisational aspects. Banks will have to operate differently, increase their focus on collaboration and up-skill their employees to navigate this change. Another key characteristic of thi...
14 November 2019 /inclusion Open Banking
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrency is getting more and more attention from states and companies trying to use the system to serve a larger variety of causes. Blockchains offer the service of moving value from one place to another faster and more transparently by removing the middleman. Blockchain has an enormous potential for simplif...
08 November 2019 /inclusion Blockchain Observations
Very few people had any kind of hope left for Bitcoin to re-emerge from its slumber that we all called the Crypto Winter in 2018. However, 2019 seems to be just as amazing of an investment year as 2017 was when the first peak occurred. Traders who entered positions at the beginning of the year are now enjoying 200% ROI, but those who managed to sna...
07 November 2019 /inclusion Blockchain Observations
Tim Duncan Founder/CEO at FinTechCommons.org
The Innovator’s Dilemma is challenging financial nonprofits. They must adopt disruptive technology, become data driven and follow their clients to the digital world to remain relevant. The problem is that these organizations are not experienced nor built to manage the risk of large investments in technology and organizational transformation. They ...
06 November 2019 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Uber has announced its latest update: Uber Money. At the Money 20/20 conference Peter Hazlehurst, Head of Uber Money introduced the updates to the public. The new features aim to improve the experience of drivers by adding the following services: Real-time earning: From now on Uber drivers across America and later through the rest of the world ...
06 November 2019 /inclusion Digital Banking Trends
Retired Member
Collaboration is a very powerful mechanism for the success of all kinds of businesses, regardless of the industry they operate in. Making connections and forming mutually beneficial alliances is what drives business expansion and growth. The benefits of developing business partnerships are manifold. Collaborating with other companies results in ve...
30 October 2019 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Zac Cohen COO at Trulioo
At the end of this month, an army of ghosts, ghouls, witches and goblins will roam the streets in search of candy. As terrifying as these hungry souls may be, a more ghastly monster -- in search of something much more lucrative than sugar -- is wreaking havoc on the world’s population: identity fraud. Identity fraud refers to the exploitation of s...
29 October 2019 /payments /inclusion
Murilo Menezes Vice President for Latin America at Juvo
Banks and mobile operators have a lot more in common than you might think. They both have global distribution networks and a system of financial clearing houses that settle charges between the individual companies on the network. This means I can use my credit card globally just as easily as I can my phone, and in both cases, I can settle my bill ...
23 October 2019 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
High Frequency Trading or HFT for short has been around pretty much ever since the financial industry found out what computers were and started incorporating them on exchange floors, big boiler room offices and various other parts of their business operations. The idea is that modern finance is practically impossible without the fast-calculating, f...
23 October 2019 /inclusion Trends in Financial Services
We cannot deny the fact that Libra is one of the largest Fintech projects currently being undertaken in the world. It is also one of the most criticized projects that Facebook has ever considered for the past couple of years. Even their controversy about selling data to companies wasn’t as “long-discussed” as the future implications of Libra and h...
18 October 2019 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
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