Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
The fundamental notions of “bull” and “bear” trends originating from the stock exchange have penetrated the cryptocurrency market and represent the tactics of animal attacks in wild nature. Should you ever confuse the terms, you only need to remember that bears wave their paws and halt to fight while bulls lift up their horns and simply run forw
29 April 2021 /crypto /markets Trends in Financial Services
James Corcoran VP Engineering at KX
As a consequence of the global pandemic, there’s arguably never been a greater focus on the value of high quality, real-time data. As governments plot their roadmaps to recovery, it’s data that is informing the big decisions from vaccination strategies to the re-opening of shops, services and public transportation. At KX, we’ve long understood the...
28 April 2021 /cloud /markets Big Data
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
Financial earnings in early 2021 turned out to be better than most were expecting. Ed Hyman—chairman and head of the economic research team for Evercore ISI—wrote in a note to clients, “There’s evidence every day that growth is clearly improving around the world, today from the US to Australia.” So far, first-quarter earnings have been reported by...
28 April 2021 /markets Post-Trade Forum
Louisa Murray COO Europe at Railsbank
There have been many headline-grabbing moments in crypto in recent months, episodes that have inspired breathless op-eds about the industry’s growing maturity and mainstream acceptance. Whether due to the activities of Visa, Paypal, Square, Tesla, or some other world-famous company, the enthusiasm coursing through the sector is palpable. And yet, ...
26 April 2021 /crypto /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Sheza Gary Project Strategiest at Self Employed
The advent of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi) has been a boon to financial inclusion. These new technologies provide financial service access to people who could not avail of the services of banks and other traditional financial service providers. The popularity of crypto and DeFi has paved the way for the rise of crypto trading,...
23 April 2021 /markets Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
Dmitry Dolgorukov CEO at GiniMachine
In this text, you can find some analytics that may help reveal the sweet spots for business and investment on the world’s map in 2021. Certain regions and countries are friendly to innovation that have millions of users with a high level of tech adoption and expanding fintech market. How FinTech was doing in 2020 According to the World Bank’s re...
21 April 2021 /markets /predictions Fintech innovation and startups
The Fintech industry is thriving as ever. Investments, cryptocurrencies, cashbacks and other similar notions have come into common use, and not only that of the millenials. But how much effort and money does one need to invest to establish and grow their own project? Let’s consider the case of neobanks which are the most vivid and frequent example...
20 April 2021 /payments /markets Trends in Financial Services
Laurent Descout CEO at NEO Capital Markets
Ron Kalifa’s UK fintech review has been greeted relatively well across the market. Kalifa’s review identified many of the foreseen headaches that are anticipated by the fallout from Brexit and the pandemic, as well as identifying steps to solve them. Ahead of what is shaping up to be the UK’s most important budget for some time, the findings and r...
31 March 2021 /markets /predictions Fintech
Reghunathan Sukumara Pillai Consultant at Infosys
Traditionally, software products were programmed with business logic using multiple programming languages. There was an underlying business which was converted into logic using different software programmes/languages and the same was maintained over a period. The type of programming language evolved from early 1950s like the Fortran developed by I...
31 March 2021 /markets Trends in Financial Services
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Exchanges today mirror the Internet networks of yesterday; they are siloed therefore lacking interconnection and are focused on a subset of assets. This fragmentation has been exacerbated, with the advent of the new digital asset markets. What can be the glue creating interconnectedness as the first truly hybrid full exchange and post trade ecosys...
29 March 2021 /crypto /markets Digital Asset Class (DAC)
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