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While gender representation has certainly seen an overall improvement in the world of work over the past few years, the question remains whether it has had an impact in business leadership yet. Recent data shows that across the FTSE 100, there are three times more female employees today compared to ten years ago, up from 12.5% to 39.1% over the
09 March 2022 /people /inclusion Women in Technology
The virtual world has been a mind-boggling concept in the sci-fi genre for decades. This has pulled in a wide range of audiences and furnished them with an immense amount of mesmerization and entertainment. As the concept of virtual reality and augmented reality started to expand rapidly, every technological domain started to take notice and deci
04 March 2022 /startups /crypto Blockchain Observations
Introduction Digital banking services are now of critical importance to financial services customers. In the digital age we live in, banks must be able to offer complex products whilst giving customers access to services at their fingertips. Many of the ‘analogue’, traditional banks have been slow to change the way they prioritise business cases t...
02 March 2022 /retail /predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Facebook has a problem. Gen Z thinks it’s a stale old “boomer” platform. In 2012, 94% of teens had an account. A decade later, it’s thought only 27% of adolescents use the network. Last year, Mark Zuckerberg hastily announced attracting younger users should become its immediate north star. However, as its stock plunged $230 billion in a single d...
01 March 2022 /inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion
All enterprises, regardless of their industry, are seeking to maximise the output of their efforts whilst reducing the effort in creating the output, basically, creating ‘more bang for their buck’, which is why the inefficient, difficult-to-use and expensive-to-own applications they commission are such a bone of contention. But, why historically d...
28 February 2022
White label NFT marketplace can now be the positive trigger to take up your ecommerce business into the emerging digitized, creative economy The vivid growth of NFTs, crypto assets and digital currencies in the economy, the growth rate kept soaring in the space with almost a quarter percent increase than the appraisal at the second quarter of 202...
25 February 2022 /crypto Blockchain Observations
A new payment regulation, Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), will soon be mandatory in the UK. In March 2022 this once-in-a-generation change will come into force for UK retailers, and bring with it the potential to massively disrupt an enterprise or to push an enterprise ahead. SCA will undoubtedly be a vital pillar of protection for merchants...
24 February 2022 /payments /regulation Business
Decentralized finance has been evolving according to the trend, and people have started to adapt to the newest technology that eliminates traditional finance. The impact has been huge, and many people, including women, have joined decentralized finance. The blockchain is open-access and inclusive to anyone around the world. However, this is a onc
23 February 2022 /startups /crypto Blockchain Observations
I recently explored challenges for merchants with buy now pay later (BNPL) solutions that are currently on the market. High rates of credit approval declines and the high cost for merchants, at 3-7% on top of normal credit card processing fees, were the biggest concerns. To help address the BNPL challenges merchants face, just this month we laun...
22 February 2022
Neobanks have received significant attention but also massive investments from venture capital firms. Neobanks globally raised more than $12 Billion in 2021, despite the global economic slowdown due to Covid 19. Funding of this scale is not limited to geographical boundaries. The number of digital-only banks has risen from 250 in 2020 to 333 in 20...
22 February 2022 /retail /startups Business
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