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Tommaso Migliore

Tommaso Migliore CEO & Co-Founder at MDOTM Ltd

AI Adoption Increases AuM, Revenues, and Productivity - Research Finds

‍According to Deloitte, financial institutions that use AI in the investment process grow AuM by 8% and raise productivity by 14%. Now that financial markets have changed, Wealth and Asset Managers are racing to develop AI solutions that can assist their clients by successfully navigating through new market conditions. ‍ — ‍ As we are witnessing a ...

/wealth /markets Fintech

Victor Martin

Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot

How Much Should Companies Invest In Their Marketing Spend?

Milan Cundera once declared, "Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation." Even though ongoing studies demonstrate a higher Return On Investment (ROI) with investing in Marketing, businesses often neglect this critical component of their operation to focus on Innovation alone. Investing in both is essential for maintainin...

/startups /markets Financial Inclusion

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What the financial sector should expect from blockchain in 2023

We are entering 2023 with tighter belts this year. However, we leave 2022 with unmatched blockchain experience, both good and bad. Will trends from 2022 roll into the new year? We look at how the financial system reacted to distributed ledger technology (DLT) in 2022 and what that predicts about its direction in 2023. Cutting a long story short, ...

/markets /predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

King Leung

King Leung Global Head of Financial Services and FinTech at InvestHK

Proactive policies creating “eastern wind” moment for Hong Kong in battle for fintech leadership

In the Chinese novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, military strategist Zhuge Liang prays for the “eastern wind” as the final missing element to feed the fires that would rage across the ships and the armies of warlord Cao Cao. Just like the novel, Hong Kong’s fintech fires are primed and the policy announcements made by regulators at the Hong K...

/crypto /markets Asia Financial Services

Alan Vaksman

Alan Vaksman Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Digital Horizon

What can we expect in venture capital in 2023?

From growth in the number of cheques, to startups with stronger economics and more specialised VCs: What can we expect in venture capital in 2023? With a new year ahead of us, the industry is rife with speculation for what the next 12 months hold for venture capital and the startup scene. The drop in valuations in 2022, alongside prolonged economic...

/startups /markets

Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa

The Cloud Paradox, and Four Ways Financial Services Firms Can Solve It

Nowhere is cloud use being more dynamically adopted at the moment than in finance - just ask any cloud vendor, from hyperscaler to cloud service provider to SaaS provider, about how strategically important the sector is to them and their current growth. Big, massive, deals in financial services offer huge prestige when successful. Financial serv...

/cloud /markets Banking Architecture

Victor Martin

Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot

eCommerce Customers Pain Points and Their Tech Solutions

Online shopping is set to take over the retail space, like how mobility has replaced desktops. According to Statista, e-commerce will account for 22% of retail sales globally, doubling within the next five years. But the actual prospect of online retail is more significant than this, but some customer pain points are checking the galloping growth ...

/startups /markets Business Knowledge for IT

Jamel Derdour

Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 - www.transact365.io

2023: The year of Embedded Finance

The embedded finance market has been growing at pace since 2020. COVID proved to be a crucial catalyst, accelerating e-commerce, financial digitalisation, and consumers’ changing expectations. To add to that, fintech companies have been catching up with – and in some cases outpacing – traditional banks when it comes to gaining consumers’ trust in ...

/payments /markets Embedded Finance

Lissele Pratt

Lissele Pratt Co-founder at Capitalixe

Virtual IBANs: Removing Friction in Cross-Border Payments

Virtual IBANs: Removing Friction in Cross-Border Payments In the past, businesses wanting to engage in cross-border payments had to set up physical bank accounts in each jurisdiction. This was time-consuming, expensive and often required a great deal of paperwork. However, with the advent of new technology, businesses can now use virtual IBANs to m...

/payments /markets Borderless World

Anna Monteiro

Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com

A Busy Fourth Quarter for Foreign Direct Investment

It was a busy fourth quarter for regulations concerning foreign direct investment. It seems that not all were watching the World Cup. Several jurisdictions issued consultations concerning qualified holdings and investment screening: EU ECB – issued consultation (now closed) on a draft Guide which aims to increase transparency by clarifying the ECB...

/regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation

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