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Dmitrii Barbasura Chief Operating Officer at Fintech Galaxy
Open Banking is steadily penetrating most of the world’s regions and MENA is no exception. With the majority of the region’s population being young and demonstrating one of the highest rates of smartphone usage globally, saying that this region is more than ready to fully welcome Open Banking sounds like an understatement. The last couple of year...
14 September 2022 /regulation /markets Online Banking
Vlad Dobrynin Founder & CEO at Humans Group
In Uzbekistan 22 million people use remote banking services. That equates to more than half of the country's population. However, the Uzbek market has relatively few startups, and those that do exist address users' pain points without solving the market's fundamental problems. Let's explore why this is happening, what niches are available in the c...
12 September 2022 /payments /markets Fintech innovation and startups
Rodrigo Zepeda CEO at Storm-7 Consulting Limited
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Cumulative analysis of The Merge In Part I of this ‘Ethereum (ETH) Merge’ Primer Series of blogs, we provided a background to the Ethereum platform and its originally envisaged range of potential applications, such as sub-currencies (token systems), financial derivatives, savings wallets, and ‘decentral
12 September 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen
Insurance is one of the industries actively introducing technology into its processes. In 2021, 59% of insurance firms increased their investment in innovation to show customers new and better ways to deliver services, collect data, and detect fraud. Currently, blockchain technology constitutes a small but significant part of InsurTech's innovatio...
08 September 2022 /payments /markets Financial Transformation
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Introduction Part III of this Primer Series will seek to explain the importance of certain events that will occur after The Merge within the Ethereum ecosystem, and why these events are so important. These events include the concept of Ethereum ‘Triple Halving’, the proposed Ethereum ‘Shanghai’ upgrade,
07 September 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
The word "Fintech" has become such a hype and such a widely used term, that it can actually mean anything today. Therefore when people ask for trends in the Fintech industry, this becomes harder and harder to answer, as anything even remotely associated with financial services can be linked to Fintech. Additionally traditional financial ...
06 September 2022 /inclusion /markets Fintech World
Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's (BCBS) Standardised Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) was introduced to improve the risk sensitivity of capital framework for derivatives transactions without creating undue complexity for banks. One of the Committee’s key objectives in formulating the SA-CCR standard was to design an appro...
06 September 2022 /regulation /markets Banking Regulations
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting A brief history of Ethereum developments It is helpful to briefly understand historical developments pertaining to Ethereum, in order to frame the developments ushered in by The Merge. On 1 April 2014, the Ethereum Yellow Paper was published which set out a technical definition of the Ethereum protocol (
06 September 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Introduction This ‘Ethereum (ETH) Merge’ Primer Series of blogs, will seek to describe what the event referred to as ‘The Merge’ is, and why it is so relevant and important to the overall evolution of the Ethereum platform. It has now been proposed that The Merge is scheduled to commence on Thursday 15
05 September 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Bertrand Chen CEO at GSBN
A crop of technology is fast emerging which is set to disrupt the multi-trillion trade finance market, and banks have a substantial opportunity to capitalize on it. Banks have always played a vital role in underpinning global trade where they are “trusted” parties, issuing letters of credit and financing trade flows. Without banks, the internation...
05 September 2022 /markets /predictions Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
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