1516 Results from 2023
Steven Weber Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley at UC Berkeley
On the 8th of February, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority announced its initial findings in its investigation of Microsoft’s roughly 70-billion-dollar acquisition of Activision. Their frosty report – full of concerns that the deal could “substantially reduce the competition that Microsoft would otherwise face in the cloud gaming market in...
09 February 2023 /security /cloud
Steven Hatton Co-founder & Director at Trusek Ltd
An account that will let you accept, store and send funds in multiple currencies with the ability to exchange between currencies. But there are different ways this can be achieved. 1. Multiple single currency accounts accessed through one portal. This may give you a single interface in which you can manage multiple currencies, with sepa...
09 February 2023 /payments /inclusion Banking
Steven Rackham CTO for Financial Services at NetApp
Big Tech’s influence is becoming more and overarching across numerous different sectors. From retail to politics, Big Tech is slowly infiltrating our lives. One sector which is trying to ensure it keeps some control is the financial services sector. Last July, the Bank of International Settlements published a paper arguing that the reliance of fin...
09 February 2023 /regulation Banking Regulations
Matthew Salisbury CEO at Honey Badger
I know what you’re wondering. Wangiri. What the heck does that mean? It’s a Japanese word meaning ‘one (ring) and cut’. So called because fraudsters make one ring calls to consumers from high-rate overseas numbers. Curious consumers see a missed call from an overseas number and call it back, thus a call is made to the high-rate number and revenue ...
08 February 2023 /security /crime Exposing Financial Crime
Roman Baranovskyi Lawyer at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
Today, India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and its potential is just beginning to unfold. Speaking about the most popular business niche to which development India offers loyalty at the state level is the online gambling industry. What is the reason for such loyalty? First off, the absence of strict legislative regulation o...
08 February 2023 /regulation /markets Bigger than Technology
Colin Grieves Managing Director Marketing Services at Experian
Over the last 12 months, UK households have experienced various challenges, with many forced to cutback on expenditure on non-essential items to deal with the rising cost of living. But is that the complete picture? And what does the changing and evolving economic landscape mean for businesses and organisations looking to better understand their cu...
08 February 2023 /predictions Marketing in Financial Services
Abe Karar Chief Product & Innovation Officer at Fintech Galaxy
The financial landscape is constantly transforming, verging the modern world closer to a digitally dominated future. SMEs, being the economy boosters, choose the approach to strive and develop in this new digital realm. The World Bank reports that SMEs represent 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment worldwide. In the wake of a post-Cov...
08 February 2023 /payments /inclusion Online Banking
Toine Van Beusekom Strategy Director at Icon Solutions
Research indicates that payments transformation isn’t optional—it’s imperative for survival. Yet modernising payments infrastructure can be a costly undertaking. Tier 2 and 3 banks can roll out a successful payments transformation programme that minimises risk and maximises innovation for value-added services. Ask anyone in the industry and most w...
08 February 2023 /payments Banking
Jonathan Westley Chief Data Officer, Experian UK & EMEA at Experian
Last month, the Chancellor set out his vision for prosperity in the UK, noting his ambition to turn the UK into “the world’s next Silicon Valley”. He celebrated the UK’s “world beating” fintech sector, praising UK unicorns Monzo and Revolut. The Chancellor is right, the UK does have an opportunity to become a world leader in technology, especially ...
07 February 2023 /people Data Management 101
Ermes Dajko Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect at Temenos
If you’ve bought something online through an online retailer or through a merchant’s web site or app and you’ve selected to buy now and pay later with interest free instalments, a micro-loan is created for you. That capability of a business to offer you financial products at the Point of Sale (PoS) within their own experience without the consumer ...
07 February 2023 /cloud /predictions Embedded Finance
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