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Sergio Barbosa CIO of Global Kinetic, and CEO of FutureBank. at Global Kinetic and FutureBank
Most shareholders of traditional banks continue to focus on the more obvious indicators when assessing value. However, brand value is fast becoming an important measurement, especially when that brand can be turned into a new and thriving bank. Embedded finance is best described as when a non-financial company offers credit and other financial ser...
18 May 2022 /retail /inclusion Embedded Finance
Aurélie L'hostis Principal Analyst at Forrester Research
“Soy mayor, no idiota” — “I’m old, not an idiot.” That’s the headline of a Change.org campaign launched by Carlos San Juan, a 78-year-old Spaniard who argued that the closure of bank branches and the forced migration of customers to digital banking were sidelining elderly and vulnerable customers. The petition, which asked for more consideration a...
17 May 2022 /retail /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Jatin Ondhia Co-founder and CEO at Shojin Property Partners
For years, dating back to the middle ages, real estate has been a popular way for one to build and preserve their wealth. Merchants would buy, sell and rent houses on the land of their feudal lords. However, to operate at the level of institutional-grade opportunities has required investors to be among the wealthiest 1% of people globally. At a...
06 May 2022 /inclusion /markets
Ivan Zhiznevskiy Founder & CEO at 3S Money
There’s a long-standing belief among Fintech founders that you need VC (Venture Capitalist) investment when starting out to make the biggest splash. But this just isn’t the case. I know this from first-hand experience. “It’ll never take off,” is what I was told bluntly by one VC as he tucked into lobster linguine in a central-London restaurant. N...
25 April 2022 /inclusion /markets Small Business Lending Innovation
Retired Member
“Do you take plastic?” There was a time when consumers where asking that question in Retail outlets around the world. Nowadays, the ability to pay for goods and services with a debit or credit card is so commonplace that consumers simply assume that card acceptance is available virtually everywhere. It wasn’t always like this but several decades o...
21 April 2022 /payments /inclusion Fintech
Gregg Early Director of Market Engagement at Moven
A number of years ago, I wrote a blog regarding an interesting factoid I stumbled upon. It has to do with economist Charles Goodhart and his idea known as Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Over the years, as the fintech space and quite frankly the tech space in general has expanded, I keep coming back ...
19 April 2022 /retail /inclusion Digital Bank Transformation
Maria Schuld Head of Regional and Community Banking at FIS
According to the BAI Outlook report, the greatest business challenges for bankers in 2022 is improving the digital experience and new customer acquisition. Only 9% of bankers describe their digital customer experience as excellent. Community banks face a dilemma: invest in digital innovation or focus on the personalized service that serves as their...
13 April 2022 /retail /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Arjeh Van Oijen Head of Product Management at Icon Solutions
Central banks across the globe are exploring and testing Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to provision Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). In this blog, Arjeh van Oijen, Head of Product Management, and Atul Verma, Senior Payments Architect at Icon Solutions, explore how DLT overcomes the restrictions of existing financial infrastructures, t...
12 April 2022 /payments /inclusion Cryptocurrency Insights
Brad Goodall CEO at BANKED
More than ever before, innovative payment methods are being used as a force for positive social change, especially as charities recover from shortfalls experienced during the pandemic. UK charities suffered greatly over recent years, especially at the start of the lockdown in 2020: 40% of charities were forced to dip into reserves at the height o...
12 April 2022 /payments /inclusion Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Jairo Riveros Managing Director of the United States and LatAm at Paysend
Propelled by the pandemic, consumer demand for digital financial services has begun to soar. With stores shutting down across the country and consumers forced to buy online, many businesses and consumers switched to contactless methods of payments over the last couple of years. Many financial services took this opportunity to begin implementing di...
07 April 2022 /payments /inclusion Frictionless Payments
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