787 Results from /markets
Gregg Early Director of Market Engagement at Moven
An interesting article in Tearsheet discusses a recent CapitalOne study that shows how much concern there is for financial wellness within Gen Z. It’s a significant amount. Nearly 80% wish they were taught basic money skills at school. And 83% say they learn about finance from their families. Let’s put this in perspective. Gen Z are people that ar...
01 November 2021 /retail /markets Financial Transformation
Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, widespread digital acceleration has catapulted fintech firms further into mainstream usage than ever before. As the highly advanced technological infrastructures of challenger banks outpace their more-traditional counterparts, it’s worth asking whether there’s a place for banking as we know it in a fintech-dr...
01 November 2021 /retail /markets
Farah Miller CEO at Helixtap Technologies
The crackdown on power consumption coupled with the crisis of Evergrande Group looms large over the demand for natural rubber in China as the industrial manufacturing sector of the country faces a setback. With the ongoing Evergrande crisis and Beijing’s unprecedented curbs on the property sector, the power supply crisis has affected Jiangsu, Zheji...
01 November 2021 /markets /predictions Financial Supply Chain
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
Just when you are simply unable to get onboard the right resources from your area or just when you want to hire skilled resources without paying a premium, you may decide to go remote hiring. There are two challenges involved in this. First of all, hiring a skilled team of offshore developers is not always easy and secondly, managing a remote deve...
20 October 2021 /startups /markets Fintech
Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank
Mention gold and heads are likely to turn. That’s because gold is seen as a sign of wealth and prosperity. Most people around the world own something that happens to be made with gold. As it relates to investing, gold is something that should be included in just about any type of portfolio. Why would you want to consider this type of investment? Co...
19 October 2021 /markets /predictions Personal Finance
Retired Member
It is safe to say that fintech technologies have been drastically impacted by open-source tech. A study from Research and Markets suggests that the open-source service market is set to grow by 24 percent by 2025, compounded by the adoption of the technology by larger institutions. Yet despite the rapid spike in growth, financial services and banki...
18 October 2021 /cloud /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
After one of the most heavily anticipated IPOs of 2021, Robinhood has endured a tumultuous introduction to public life. With the emergence of formidable competitors and regulatory scrutiny of the company’s payment-for-order flow model, the value of HOOD shares has fallen some 40% from its $70 peak in early August. Now it’s worth asking whether the...
07 October 2021 /markets
Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai Consultant at Infosys
The need for digitization has increased during the pandemic- change in existing process, adoption of new systems and process, new businesses, and the applicability in diverse industries. This has been glaringly visible in the banking /financial services industry where Banks are not able to service the consumer online or meet the needs of new age c...
30 September 2021 /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Fintech, like many other tech-oriented industries, is constantly evolving. There are new finance apps that are seemingly cropping up on a daily basis, offering bold new approaches to the managing and processing of payments. While this industry has been constantly growing, the arrival of blockchain technology threatens to bring an unprecedented lev...
29 September 2021 /markets
The pandemic has propelled us into an environment where geography has become secondary. The ubiquitous Microsoft Teams or Zoom calls do not differentiate location when they bring everyone together in a virtual room with limited visual cues of where people are based. Conversation starters such as ‘what’s the weather like there?’ and for east to wes...
28 September 2021 /markets Capital Markets Technology
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