786 Results from /markets
Rodrigo Zepeda CEO at Storm-7 Consulting Limited
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Crypto Market Developments in Europe and the United States In Part I of this Blog Series, readers were introduced to underlying financial market fundamentals relating to ‘exchange-traded funds’ (ETFs). It was identified that the United States (US) and Europe formed the top two markets for ETFs globally (
29 June 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting Introduction In recent years, terms such as ‘Crypto ETF’, ‘Bitcoin ETF’, ‘Bitcoin futures ETF’, and ‘Bitcoin spot ETF’, seem to have been widely featured in crypto news articles. Yet, many of these cursory articles seem to skip crucial underlying financial market fundamentals. At the same time, many wri
28 June 2022 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Karthikeyan Rengasamy Chief Architect and Research Scholar at TATA Consultancy Services
For almost half a century, scientists across the world have put significant efforts in building quantum computers and were looking at use cases for wider adoption. Quantum Computing is a parallel computing system in nature, so it is of no surprise that it is gaining traction in a wide variety of businesses, especially in the financial services se
27 June 2022 /wealth /markets Capital Markets Technology
Daire Ferguson CEO at AvaTrade
Around the world, inflation rates are surging, rising to near unprecedented levels. Last month, it was revealed that inflation in the UK had surged, hitting a 40-year high of nine per cent. What’s more, inflation in the Eurozone hit a new record high of over eight per cent, while the Federal Reserve recently raised its benchmark policy rate by 0.7...
22 June 2022 /wealth /markets Personal Finance
Retired Member
In 2009, former Fed chair, Paul Volcker, said that the ATM has been the only useful innovation in banking over the previous 20 years. How much innovation have banks done since? Does the current market downturn create an opportunity for them to catch up? I would argue so, yes. If they want to of course. Brendan Greeley, wrote in the FT over the wee...
22 June 2022 /startups /markets Fintech
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting [Part IV of a four part blog series] Last year it was reported that the amount of CO2 production that is financed by British banks and asset managers is nearly double the entire annual carbon emissions attributable to the United Kingdom (UK) as a nation (Makortoff 2021; Shukaman 2021). The City provided...
20 June 2022 /sustainable /markets Climate Fintech
Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC
Rather than competing, fintechs and traditional banks might possibly create more value by working together. While fintech companies continue to drive innovation in the financial services industry, many enterprise-startup relationships are hampered by stringent laws, data privacy issues, and security concerns. As a result, many business banking ins...
19 June 2022 /markets /predictions Finance 2.0
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting [Part III of a four part blog series] It was previously seen that the issue of greenwashing in consumer and capital markets was identified more than a decade ago. In theory, if green and environmental issues in finance were a top priority, the United Kingdom (UK) Government and UK regulatory authorities...
16 June 2022 /sustainable /markets Climate Fintech
Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 / Nucleus365
The rise of digital payment systems in Latin America (LATAM) is typically dominated by discussions on the region’s largest markets. Brazil and Mexico feature heavily in this discourse, a reflection of the economy’s respective sizes and untapped consumer potential. Yet this is only part of a bigger payments transformation taking place in the region...
15 June 2022 /payments /markets Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
By Rodrigo Zepeda, CEO, Storm-7 Consulting [Part II of a four part blog series] In order to gain a better and more in-depth understand of greenwashing, it is helpful to first venture beyond mere definitions and to look at what it may entail, as well as its impact on financial investments in practice. In the United States (US), at the beginning ...
15 June 2022 /sustainable /markets Climate Fintech
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