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Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 / Nucleus365
Written by Anjulie Patel, VP of Partnerships at Nucleus365 With International Women’s Day looming it’s time to analyse our sector’s gender dynamics, where we’re underperforming and where we can do better. The fintech industry has a gender problem. In 2021, Deloitte research showed that only 30% of the UK’s fintech workforce was female, and only 17...
06 March 2023 /payments /markets Women in Technology
Retired Member
Despite a tough economic environment, many of the asset finance providers I talk to are confident about their growth prospects in 2023. And one of the biggest opportunities at the moment lies in green finance. Whether they are leasing more electric vehicles, financing the charging infrastructure that supports them or providing assets on a pay-as-yo...
06 March 2023 /markets /predictions Banking and Lending Solutions
Karthikeyan Rengasamy Chief Architect and Research Scholar at TATA Consultancy Services
Introduction Derivatives have a huge impact on modern finance as the financial markets are benefited by them in several ways. Derivative contract is a financial instrument whose value is determined from the price of one or more underlying assets. Typically, it is issued between an issuer and the holder with a contract expiry date, which is valid u...
05 March 2023 /wealth /markets Capital Markets Technology
Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank
If the North American market is to see a 32X jump in less than 10 years, where the plant based food market is projected to grow from $5 Billion in 2019 to $162 Billion in 2027, then it seems that we are in the final years of a substantial breakout which can no longer be ignored. As someone with deep ties to conventional farmers on three continents...
28 February 2023 /sustainable /markets Going green
Pierre Suhrcke Venture Partner at TempoCap
2021 was the year of funding records – global venture capital funding was up 111% year-on-year, with total value hitting $621 billion, according to CBI Insights. Tech companies received funding at 50- 100 x revenue multiples. FOMO and herd mentality was driving the VC industry globally. But now the brakes are on, hard – funding dropped 35% in 2022...
23 February 2023 /startups /markets Fintech
Ali Hamriti Co-Founder and CEO at Rollee
Gig workers are a rapidly growing population, and this growth has been amplified with the cost-of-living crisis which has forced 5.2m workers to take on extra jobs. From delivering takeout in the evenings, providing a taxi service or freelancing, this group of employees are combating the stresses of the cost-of-living crisis with additional work. ...
16 February 2023 /inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
(This is a commentary on how shortselling works and not a guide to carry out shortselling.) I recently posted the following update on social media: @s_ketharaman: Startup Idea: Hindenburg Research of India. Conduct research in India. Launch hit jobs on foreign companies. 10% of large publicly traded firms in USA allegedly commit securities fraud,...
16 February 2023 /markets /crime
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
There’s been a deluge of press about the collapse of Adani Group after a report from Hindenburg Research which accuses Adani Group of: stock manipulation, improper use of offshore tax havens to hide the amount of Adani’s family stock ownership in the group companies, and excessive valuations. Hindenburg releases this report and acknowledges that i...
15 February 2023 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Muluken Alemu CEO at INDEPENDENT FINTECH CONSULTANT
The African opportunity for the Fintech industry 14 February 2023. Edited by: Muluken Alemu The African houses more than a billion people today, and yet the entirety of the continent seems to suffer from the state of being ignored. The continent, while currently underdeveloped and in parts still in turmoil, has many nations that are actually in t...
15 February 2023 /markets Fintech
Mindaugas Mikalajūnas CEO at smeGo
Legacy banks are great. I say that as someone who used to work for one (for the record, it was Nordic banking leader Swedbank, with net income just over €5 billion). Behemoths like Swedbank are geared up to deal with millions of consumers and include some of the biggest corporations on the planet. That’s heavy duty. However, typically they are no...
15 February 2023 /payments /markets API
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