103 Results from 2020, /inclusion
Retired Member
The financial environment is changing significantly in Europe and beyond, putting pressure on the lending market. Current conditions raise demand for instant credit products which forces lenders to go digital. Lenders are faced with a serious challenge to ensure business continuity. They need to create a mechanism that allows the assessment of bor...
22 April 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Open Banking
Scott Raspa Head of Marketing at Hydrogen - www.hydrogen.tech
Financial technology, or fintech, is on the verge of a breakthrough in Brazil in 2020. In late November 2019, Brazil’s Central Bank set out draft rules for open banking, intending to phase in the rules during the second half of 2020. These new regulations make substantial changes to the way existing financial institutions and banks share transacti...
21 April 2020 /startups /inclusion
Steve Cook Digital Identity & Biometrics Consultant
Biometrics will be in high demand in order for economies to function during the Covid-19 virus outbreak. Many onboarding practices with traditional banks involve the customers making a trip to the local branch to verify who they are with their ID documents. Now that most countries have introduced stay-at-home policies due to the coronavirus crisis,...
15 April 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Biometrics
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on almost every area of our lives: from travel to shopping, the economy to health services. Understandably, these are emotive issues – things that we previously may have taken for granted are now being put under enormous pressure at a time when people are very anxious. Amid the uncertainty, there is a danger that som...
06 April 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Financial Supply Chain
Tim Duncan Founder/CEO at FinTechCommons.org
The Coronavirus economic crisis is putting already financially distressed households in much greater distress. It als presents an enormous challenge for nonprofits and government agencies that must immediately transition from financial guidance to what is essentially complex disaster relief services at huge scale - while also having shut down thei...
31 March 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Whilst the current pandemic induced crisis is yet to reach its peak, and is leaving a trail of personal and economic destruction, we should expect a new landscape to emerge, in many respects, when the dust settles. What does this mean for the Fintech sector in terms of opportunities and how does this impact the individual? 2019: A bumper year for ...
30 March 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Capital Market Technology
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
As the pandemic known as Covid-19 is changing the way we live our lives, there are a couple of innovative technologies that have made this transition period much easier. We don’t know much about this virus but so far it has completely turned the world upside down. Not only are we running a risk of overwhelming our healthcare systems and possibly l...
30 March 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Fintech
These are confusing times for everyone both mentally and financially. While the stock market is crashing and governments are spending trillions trying to salvage the situation caused by the coronavirus, cryptocurrency has been sort of hanging in the air. At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin, the most famous and mainstream cryptocurrency out there...
27 March 2020 /inclusion /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
The importance of passive facial liveness detection is key for digital onboarding and a frictionless user experience. Liveness detection has become a critical part of the digital identity process for face biometric authentication, onboarding and fraud prevention. With today's facial recognition systems, there are two questions that need to be asked...
27 March 2020 /inclusion /identity Biometrics
Daniel Fasnacht CEO&Founder at EcosystemPartners AG
In the hardest times, there is always a way to get better. With The Way Forward, I’d like to share disruptive changes that shape industries, businesses, and societies in the context of financial services. The 21 notes synthesise the findings of openness, flexibility, and customer-centricity in a digital world driven by platform business models and...
25 March 2020 /wealth /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
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