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Sergio Barbosa

Sergio Barbosa CIO of Global Kinetic, and CEO of FutureBank. at Global Kinetic and FutureBank

Big competition from non-banking brands coming soon

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...

/retail /inclusion Embedded Finance

Aurélie L'hostis

Aurélie L'hostis Principal Analyst at Forrester Research

The Time To Act On Inclusive Finance Is Now

“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...

/retail /inclusion Financial Inclusion

Jatin Ondhia

Jatin Ondhia Co-founder and CEO at Shojin Property Partners

Moving sands of property investment that promise to make savings go further

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...

/inclusion /markets

Ivan Zhiznevskiy

Ivan Zhiznevskiy Founder & CEO at 3S Money

Fintechs don’t have to rely on VCs to raise 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...

/inclusion /markets Small Business Lending Innovation

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Retired Member 

Changing the Payment Card Monopoly: What Does it Take?

“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...

/payments /inclusion Fintech

Gregg Early

Gregg Early Director of Market Engagement at Moven

Keep People at the Center of Your Data

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 ...

/retail /inclusion Digital Bank Transformation

Maria Schuld

Maria Schuld Head of Regional and Community Banking at FIS

Collaboration creates successful digital strategies

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...

/retail /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Arjeh Van Oijen

Arjeh Van Oijen Head of Product Management at Icon Solutions

The benefits of using DLT for digital currencies

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...

/payments /inclusion Cryptocurrency Insights

Brad Goodall

Brad Goodall CEO at BANKED

How are payments are being used as a force for good

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...

/payments /inclusion Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Jairo Riveros

Jairo Riveros Managing Director of the United States and LatAm at Paysend

Setting Yourself Up for Financial Success in 2022

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...

/payments /inclusion Frictionless Payments

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