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Willem Lambrechts

Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel

The pre-seed funding gap.

56 % drop in fintech investments...interesting number... however, the headline doesn't tell it all... The total amount invested in fintechs fell 56 %, ok. However , the total number of investments in fintech dropped only by 18 %. If it were for rising interests exclusively, the number of investments would have gone down proportionally... Where the...

/wealth /startups Fintech innovation and startups

Ali Hamriti

Ali Hamriti Co-Founder and CEO at Rollee

Gig Workers Denied Equal Opportunity to Financial Services - A Cue for Change

Gig workers are a rapidly growing population, and this growth has been amplified with the cost-of-living crisis which has forced 5.2m workers to take on extra jobs. From delivering takeout in the evenings, providing a taxi service or freelancing, this group of employees are combating the stresses of the cost-of-living crisis with additional work. ...

/inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

What the ChatGPT do you know about generative AI in banking?

ChatGPT, while getting much attention, is just the beginning of a new era of using a specific category of AI as a tool for organisations to improve their operations and provide better service to customers. Taking a look at the core of its capabilities, the banking sector is one of the industries that stands to benefit most from the emergence of th...

/devops Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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Retired Member 

Trade Digitalization - Key Drivers, Challenges and Solution Approach(es)

Changing customer expectations, quest for process efficiency and business growth, growing industry and regulatory support for digital trade continue to be the key drivers for digitalization of trade finance. Given the archaic interaction mechanisms and customer demand for better experience, channels continue to be the area of immediate focus for ba...

/wholesale Banking

Sean Salloux

Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital

The Role of Financial Institutions in the Growth of Cryptocurrencies

With crypto adoption still restricted by negative perceptions, the participation of financial institutions is recognised as a key agent for change. As inflation continues to affect how much we can spend, and, more importantly, where we can spend it, perceptions of risk and a lack of understanding around cryptocurrencies are slowing adoption rates i...

/payments /crypto Fintech

Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Shortselling For Normies

(This is a commentary on how shortselling works and not a guide to carry out shortselling.) I recently posted the following update on social media: @s_ketharaman: Startup Idea: Hindenburg Research of India. Conduct research in India. Launch hit jobs on foreign companies. 10% of large publicly traded firms in USA allegedly commit securities fraud,...

/markets /crime

Adam Preis

Adam Preis Global Strategist at Ping Identity

Unleashing the Value of Open Banking

The market opportunity for developing seamless, secure, and scalable services across the UK Open Banking landscape continues to grow. More than 6.5 million users access services through open banking and APIs on a regular basis. On top of that, there was a 500% rise in payments made through open banking this past year, according to the 2022 Open Ba...

/security /identity Open Banking

Harriet Christie

Harriet Christie Chief Operating Officer at Mirrorweb

Digital Archiving Trends 2023

In 2023, digital archiving finds itself planted firmly in the corporate spotlight. The volume of data being consumed is growing rapidly in all facets of life, and certainly in the workplace. We have seen a proliferation of platforms and digital channels being used by businesses, particularly post Covid-19, and while the sheer volume of informatio...

/regulation /cloud Data Management and Governance

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Data privacy – the new Normal in Digitization

The raising prominence of Data privacy: As per the market stats published by Statista, the amount of data/information generated, gathered, copied, and consumed is expected to reach 180 zettabytes by 2025! And a majority of the data generated is on customer and customer only! All of this can be used to infer valuable insights and patterns on the cus...

/regulation Trends in Financial Services

Leo Lipis

Leo Lipis Chief Executive at Lipis Advisors https://www.lipisadvisors.com

What does the European Commission's proposed regulation on instant payments mean for the industry?

In October 2022 the European Commission (EC) announced a legislative proposal to make instant payments in euros available to all citizens with a bank account in the EU/EEA. In short, the EC proposal contains four major initiatives: All Payment Service Providers (PSPs) that already offer credit transfers in euros (excluding payment institutions an...

/payments /predictions SEPA and European Payments

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