842 Results from /inclusion
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Yet another African startup is raking up millions from investors around the world during its round of financing and this time around the major investor is America’s most prestigious investment bank- Goldman and Sachs. The bank is just one of the investors willing to put its assets into the South African fintech startup Jumo that just recently clos...
06 March 2020 /inclusion Fintech
A Southeast Asian country is set to become one of the top fintech countries, showing impressive rates of adoption and the willingness to work for progress. Malaysia which is typically known for its beaches and rainforests isn’t very active on the tech market, or so we thought till very recently. Malaysia has managed to create a thriving fintech s...
03 March 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Bhavesh Vaghela SVP B2B Product and Innovation at Collinson
Anyone working in product development needs to think, feel and live like a customer to truly understand what they need to do. I’ve worked in digital for over a decade, but all too often I’ve heard the phrase “you are not the customer” used (usually incorrectly) like a carefully calibrated torpedo to blow any argument out of the water, even if it w...
28 February 2020 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Tim Duncan Founder/CEO at FinTechCommons.org
The Private, Public and Impact Sectors Join Forces for AI for Good Close to 4,000 people are expected to attend the 2020 United Nations AI for Good Summit in Geneva. Senior executives from impact organizations and major companies and high-ranking government officials from around the world will gather in May to further the use of artificial intel...
27 February 2020 /regulation /inclusion Inclusive FinTech
Citibank is one of the most active larger banks that actively tries to follow the trends and the demands of their customers and for the longest time, the prime request for their customer has been more present in fintech. Last year Citibank was involved in one of the biggest fintech projects, partnering up with Google on Google Pay and backing all...
17 February 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Earlier last month, news feeds were abuzz about a major acquisition within the financial industry, when Visa purchased fintech startup - Plaid, for a substantial sum of $5.3 billion. Although major news, for the majority of the readers this was the first time they have heard about Plaid, raising the questions of how could this company that many ha...
11 February 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In recent years, the usage of the term "Financial Inclusion" has risen exponentially. As with any buzzword, it is used and misused by many companies to boost their corporate image and get support from different governments (e.g. subsidies). As with so many buzzwords, the term has become so much overloaded, that it now encompasses a wide ...
10 February 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
The “gig economy” is growing rapidly. Technology acceleration has enabled businesses like Deliveroo to pioneer its working model in the UK. The increasing number of contractor jobs has risen from 1.3 million in 2018 to 4.7 million and it seems that more industries are shifting to an ad hoc basis when it comes to employing staff. For insurers, this...
10 February 2020 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
Bernd Richter SVP - FIS Impact Ventures at FIS
Pension is known in the western world as income at age and what pays the bills, when one retires from his/her job life, what was put aside during work life. But not many actually understand how much is needed to be prepared for age or may be in false hope that state pension will be enough for a living. The EU recently progressed a Pan-European Per...
08 February 2020 /regulation /inclusion Trends in Financial Services
Retired Member
Developments in the digital space are changing the dynamics of the remittance market, driving it on a steady upward curve. According to the World Bank, in 2018, remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) amounted to $529 billion – an increase of 9.6% over the previous year. Global remittances, which include flows to high-income countr...
03 February 2020 /inclusion Fintech
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