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Rising inflation across the US, UK and the Eurozone is creating massive pressures across global markets. We’re seeing a reduction in the breadth of credit products, like mortgages, as they become more unaffordable, which leads to a reduction in volume and profitability as net interest margins are squeezed. Defaults are increasing – and will continu...
23 November 2022 /markets Trends in Financial Services
Uldis Teraudkalns CEO at Nexpay
Advocates of new technologies often like to think they exist outside the usual rules and trends of business. There are plenty of signposts for how this usually works out. The most famous is the “hype cycle” from tech high priests, Gartner. In the cycle, a new tech emerges, sounds exciting and gets hyped out of sight until it reaches “the peak of ...
22 November 2022 /crypto /markets
Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 / Nucleus365
Alternative finance (alt-fi) has steadily grown as a viable payment method in the e-commerce ecosystem. According to a report from Cambridge Judge Business School, in 2020, online global alt-fi volume amounted to $114 billion. When looking at the market as a whole in 2022, the valuation of alt-fi digital assets reaches $1.05 trillion. Emerging o...
21 November 2022 /payments /markets Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Philip Chethalan Marketing Manager at Subex
In February 2021, the Reserve Bank of India published a paper detailing Digital Payment Security Controls (DPSC). The paper was developed to aid Indian financial organisations in protecting digital channels and offering commodities to clients with Identity Verification solutions. Global financial services corporations are caught between the govern...
04 November 2022 /identity /markets
Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay
As 2022 comes to an end, the global economic landscape is looking increasingly bleak. COVID-19, war, sanctions, energy shortages and inflation all contribute to a mood of uncertainty amongst business owners, and even the most successful companies are thinking hard about what the future might hold. So how can businesses stay competitive during a lo...
02 November 2022 /payments /markets BNPL
Jonny Blausten Co-founder and CEO at Sprout
With annual returns in excess of 35% for over a decade from top quartile funds, venture capital (VC) has long been recognised as a top performing asset class, yet remains out of reach for most private investors. The best VC funds are only accessible to the minority of investors capable of writing cheques in excess of £1m+ (with some funds dema...
01 November 2022 /wealth /markets Alternative Investments
Karthikeyan Rengasamy Chief Architect and Research Scholar at TATA Consultancy Services
Stock markets volatility is commonly associated with investment risk. However, if the risk is effectively managed, it can also generate solid returns for investors. The investment managers and investors acknowledge that they must consider factors other than the expected rate of return for better prediction and decision-making. The decision-making ...
28 October 2022 /wealth /markets Capital Markets Technology
Elena Berestovaya Owner, Chief Marketing Officer at Ubanksy.com, UpTrader Software Design
What happened? What problem did we solve? Once again, a developer nervously told a support engineer that the issue the customer is experiencing is not on our side. He added that it was at least the 4th time that he was answering this particular question and that it would be worth remembering it. The support manager got offended and replied that
27 October 2022 /startups /markets Customer Service 2015-2019-2025
We are entering an almost unprecedented global situation created by three converging - and interconnected - crises. As we approach 2023, the world is facing major food shortages, a commodity crisis, and a financial crisis. The question focusing on many minds is whether it’s possible to make money as an investor in the markets during these challen...
27 October 2022 /wealth /markets Personal Finance
Stephane Rio CEO at Opensee
Regulatory reporting requirements and time-sensitive business data demands are forcing financial institutions to confront the challenges of defining their global data journey strategy. At stake is constant access to aggregate or run impact simulations on heterogeneous sets of data that get larger every day. Institutions face demands from regulator...
24 October 2022 /regulation /markets Capital Markets Technology
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