816 Results from /markets
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
Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
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)
Anne Plested Regulation at ION Markets
The review of MiFID/MiFIR is now well underway following the regulations’ 2-year anniversary in 2020. In their most recent consultation paper ESMA, the European securities and markets authority, was keen to hear from trading venues and investment firms engaged in algorithmic and high-frequency trading. Consulting on the efficiencies of the existin...
25 March 2021 /regulation /markets
South East Asia has seen a Fintech boom and immense growth since 2016 but this market is still considered underpenetrated, and the reason is obvious: a limited availability of financial services creates major potential for development. For instance, according to the World Bank, only 49% of adults in Indonesia have official bank accounts; in Cambod...
23 March 2021 /payments /markets Fintech innovation and startups
Derek Boirun CEO at Realio Fund
The dust has settled on the GameStop saga, and so has the stock price. Noise about Robinhood's questionable trading restrictions is calling into question the feasibility of current market infrastructure in our new, digitally connected world. The redditors came and saw, but they didn't conquer in their valiant mission to "beat the hedge funds....
22 March 2021 /inclusion /markets Blockchain Observations
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