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Introduction As businesses increasingly recognize the benefits of having their own payment gateways, the demand for comprehensive knowledge on building and operating such systems has surged. Whether it's to reduce service fees, cater to underserved regions, or overcome technical limitations, understanding the intricacies involved in developing a pa...
31 May 2023 /payments /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Daniel Schlaepfer CEO at Select Vantage Inc
The application of artificial intelligence to financial markets has been making the headlines in recent weeks. Each day we see new articles about the countless and evolving use cases of chatbots and machine learning for trading and other varieties of capital allocation. But I’ve long thought that the only thing more interesting than the capabiliti...
31 May 2023 /markets /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Katia Andropova Associate Director Cognizant Consulting at Cognizant Technology Solutions
Financial institutions must navigate a complex and constantly evolving environment of securities and transaction taxes that differ not just for each region, country, and asset class but also with client type, trading frequency and channels. Institutions are under obligation to comply with tax regimes such as FATCA, Financial Transaction Taxes (FTT...
31 May 2023 /wealth /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Michele Tucci MD Americas, Chief Strategy Officer at Credolab
While North America and Europe have long been considered fintech heavyweights, South-East Asia is emerging as a worthy addition to the list of major global fintech markets. The region's ability to innovate and adapt quickly has influenced the global fintech landscape. A recent KPMG report found that, while global fintech investment dropped by 30%...
31 May 2023 /startups /markets Fintech
The 409A valuation is not a good indicator of a company's true value. You heard me right. The 409A valuation isn't an accurate representation of how much the company you work for is actually worth. For those not familiar with it, the 409A valuation is an IRS required independent appraisal of the fair market value of a private company’s common ...
29 May 2023 /startups /markets
Arijit Goswami Innovation Manager at Capgemini
Green bonds are a type of financial instrument that is designed to raise funds for environmentally sustainable projects. In recent years, the concept of green bonds has gained a lot of popularity around the world, with many countries issuing them as a way to finance projects that address environmental issues such as climate change, air pollution, ...
25 May 2023 /sustainable /markets Climate Fintech
Esteban Lopez Global Industry Director FinTech at Kantox
Embedded finance, the placing of a financial product or service in a non-financial platform, is quickly changing the global economic landscape. According to Bain Capital, financial services embedded into software platforms will exceed $7 trillion by 2026 in the United States alone. Consultants McKinsey, in turn, foresee revenues of about $20 bill...
25 May 2023 /payments /markets Embedded Finance
Steve Sabin SVP, Division Executive, Lending at FIS
Ever since its launch in November 2022, OpenAI’s text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT, has been making headlines as a revolutionary technology. But with business use of AI growing all the time, what makes ChatGPT and other so-called generative AI tools such good news for commercial lending? The story so far Previous incarn...
25 May 2023 /markets /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Even the most challenging economic times come with opportunities to grow. But as gaps open for asset finance providers in the current market, it’s more important than ever to understand the risks that growth could bring, too. Right now, there are chances to be seized. With unsecured lenders increasingly losing their credit risk appetite, asset fina...
Konstantin Dzhengozov CFO at Payhawk
Despite 2022 being, on average, a strong year for M&A, 2023 has got off to a slow start. In fact, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, globally it was the slowest start to a year in two decades. In the UK’s public markets space, for example, there were only 12 announced bids in Q1, representing a decrease of £1.44bn (36%) for the same peri...
25 May 2023 /payments /markets Fintech
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