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Kent Henderson

Kent Henderson VP Product Management at Mangopay

The Rise of Programmable Wallets: A Game Changer in Digital Payments

As digital platforms grow, the ability to process payments at scale becomes a crucial competitive advantage. With transaction volumes increasing, managing the flow of money across a growing network of users, vendors, and service providers while ensuring a smooth customer experience puts increasing pressure on platforms to perform. At every stag...

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Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

What Alphabet and Microsoft earnings could reveal about the future of AI and quantum.

When two tech titans with a combined market cap of over $4 trillion prepare to reveal their Q1 earnings, the stakes stretch far beyond Wall Street. This isn’t just another earnings season - it’s a reality check on how big tech plans to handle the rising costs of AI, shifting alliances, and new threats from competitors and regulators. Alphabet and...

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Arun Poojari

Arun Poojari CEO & Co - Founder at Cashinvoice

What's Next for Fintech Partnerships in 2025 and Beyond

Over the past decade, there's been a noticeable shift in how consumers view financial services. Today's customers are no longer satisfied with just standard offerings; they expect financial institutions to be agile, responsive, and capable of providing personalized and tailored products to their unique needs. This shift is not limited to B2C marke...

/startups /inclusion Fintech innovation and startups

Prashant Bansal

Prashant Bansal Sr. Principal Consultant at Oracle

Resilience at Scale: Understanding and Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern in Microservices

Resilience at Scale: Understanding and Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern in Microservices In the evolving landscape of financial services, where milliseconds matter and system reliability is non-negotiable, modern software architecture must accommodate resilience by design. Distributed systems—particularly those employing microservices—are i...

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Darya Lyhach

Darya Lyhach PR manager at Noda

How QR Codes Are Making Payments Easier for Local Businesses

As contactless technologies continue to reshape commerce, QR codes have emerged as a flexible and efficient method for facilitating digital payments. Ubiquitous across industries, QR codes are not only being used in marketing and logistics but are also becoming a reliable tool for transactions — particularly among small and medium-sized businesses...

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Ekaterina Andreeva

Ekaterina Andreeva Software Engineer at Kriya Finance Limited

Postmortem Lessons. What Startup Failures Teach New Businessmen.

Startup failure in the UK is lower than in other countries but still remains high at 60%, according to growthrate.com. This means that almost two-thirds of launched businesses have failed in the past three years. Therefore, there are plenty of lessons that can be learned by entrepreneurs who are considering or launching their businesses. In 2023, ...

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Teo Blidarus

Teo Blidarus CEO and Co-Founder at FintechOS

The evolution of life-centricity in banking

The banking industry is shifting from a customer-first approach to a life-centric model. This will align financial services with modern life. Financial institutions usually focus on products and risk management over complete customer engagement. Banks have focused on pushing loans, mortgages and credit cards. This is different from addressing broad...

/ai /retail Fintech

Shuvo G. Roy

Shuvo G. Roy Partner–Industry Solutions & Head–FinServ (EMEA) at Mphasis

Role of Gen AI in Accelerating Digit Transformation in Financial Services

If the financial sector were The Matrix, generative AI (GenAI) wouldn’t be Neo—it would be Morpheus. Not the chosen one, but the brilliant strategist who expands possibilities while also ensuring the system doesn’t collapse under its own weight. Yet, many institutions are treating AI like an all-powerful saviour, rushing to integrate it without a ...

Ruchi Rathor

Ruchi Rathor Founder at Payomatix Technologies

How Open Banking is Reshaping Financial Services in 2025

Open Banking has moved beyond concept—it’s now a catalyst driving real transformation in financial services. By enabling secure, permissioned data sharing between financial institutions and third-party providers, Open Banking is changing how individuals interact with their money, and how the industry evolves. 1. Putting the Consumer in Control At ...

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Dominic Mensah

Dominic Mensah Director Strategic Accounts at Lakeside Software

What is digital employee experience, and why should financial services care?

I wanted to introduce the community to what Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is and explore how financial organisations are using it to deliver real, measurable results, backed by examples from global banks, investment firms, credit unions, and more. In financial services, where every second counts and margins are razor-thin, operational success d...

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