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The Explosive Growth of the Payment Gateway Market: Projected to Reach $32 Billion in 2023

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...

/payments /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Daniel Schlaepfer

Daniel Schlaepfer CEO at Select Vantage Inc

Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents

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...

/markets /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Katia Andropova

Katia Andropova Associate Director Cognizant Consulting at Cognizant Technology Solutions

Navigating challenges and solutions of securities and transaction taxes

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...

/wealth /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Michele Tucci

Michele Tucci MD Americas, Chief Strategy Officer at Credolab

Unraveling Asia's Fintech Success: Lessons for the Global Industry

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%...

/startups /markets Fintech

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The 409A Valuation Misses the Mark Big Time

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 ...

/startups /markets

Arijit Goswami

Arijit Goswami Innovation Manager at Capgemini

Green Bonds in India face unresolved challenges

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, ...

/sustainable /markets Climate Fintech

Esteban Lopez

Esteban Lopez Global Industry Director FinTech at Kantox

The Currency Revolution in Embedded Finance

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...

/payments /markets Embedded Finance

Steve Sabin

Steve Sabin SVP, Division Executive, Lending at FIS

Banking on ChatGPT – Why generative AI will be good for commercial lending

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...

/markets /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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Handle asset finance growth opportunities with care

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...

/markets /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Konstantin Dzhengozov

Konstantin Dzhengozov CFO at Payhawk

Overconfident founders and BaaS: The UK's 2023 mergers and acquisitions landscape

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...

/payments /markets Fintech

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