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Pankaj Upadhyaya Vice President - Data Science, BI & Analytics at Maveric Systems
Through the ages, data analytics has been a key aspect of every financial institution. From invest banking to credit scoring to securities trading – data analytics has played a major role in arriving at a data-driven decision. With the advent of technology, big data analytics has gained significant ground in the banking and finance sector. In the ...
01 October 2019 /inclusion Analytics in Banking
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Africa has one of the world’s most mobile populations, and African nations account for a large and growing slice of the global remittance market. In 2018, the World Bank reported that remittances to sub-Saharan Africa grew by almost 10% to $46 billion. African migration has been rising steeply in recent years, fuelling the growth of cross-border f...
30 September 2019 /regulation /inclusion Trends in Financial Services
Sarah Jackson Director at Equiniti Credit Services
Let’s talk about representative APRs. Those enticing little percentages that influence a consumer’s decision to apply for one loan product over another. Far too often excitement turns to disappointment when they get down to the fine print and discover that the headline percentage was too good to be true, usually after going through the extensive a...
26 September 2019 /retail /inclusion
Canada’s prepaid market continues to experience strong growth, according to a report conducted by the Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization (CPPO), a not-for-profit organization representing the voices of the Canadian open-loop prepaid payments industry, and Mercator Advisory Group. The annual report, The Canadian Open-Loop Prepaid Market: 201...
20 September 2019 /inclusion
“Residual income is passive income that comes in every month whether you show up or not. It’s when you no longer get paid for your personal efforts alone, but rather, get paid for the efforts of hundreds or even thousands of others and on the efforts of your money. It’s one of the keys to financial freedom and freedom of time”, — Steve Fisher, “Re...
20 September 2019 /inclusion Fintech
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
The advantages that fintech brings to the industry cannot be taken lightly, especially after we’ve seen so many traditional companies switch to this new understanding. In the past, there was absolutely nothing that could challenge traditional finances. The bank was the only place where you could possibly store your cash, and hope for some kind of r...
16 September 2019 /regulation /inclusion Fintech
How Asian family firms need to behave to survive? How Wealth Managers can profit from this environment? Disruptive technology is the greatest threat and biggest opportunity for Asian family businesses. Technologies ranging from robotics to cryptocurrency to machine learning are reshaping almost all markets. For instance, cryptocurrency and mobil
04 September 2019 /inclusion Asia Financial Services
There are many challenging areas for the traditional Fintech industry to get into, with one of the most challenging areas in the world being the Post Soviet space. This includes Russia and any country that used to be part of this space. The issues faced by the Fintech industry are many, and solving them goes beyond simply offering a superior servi...
02 September 2019 /inclusion Financial Services Regulation
The United Nations estimates that there are more than 258 million expats worldwide who send money to their home countries. These remittances support more than 800 million families, including those living in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). World Bank data reveals that remittances to LMICs reached $529 billion in 2018, a growth of 9.6% com...
29 August 2019 /inclusion Trends in Financial Services
Not for profit banking is a way of lending money that is not like traditional bank lending. Unlike how the local banks work, this form of banking comes from money that has been collected by the community. This would mean that select people of the neighborhood will have control or say-so of who is able to be lent some money. This has actually been ...
26 August 2019 /inclusion Behavioral Economics in Banking
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