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Sridhar Ramamurthi

Sridhar Ramamurthi Industry Advisor at TCS

Being purpose-led: Considerations for Financial Services firms – Customer and Provider Perspectives

In an earlier blog (titled: Being purpose-led: Considerations for Financial Services firms – What does it mean?), we explored what purpose-led means with a few examples. So far, the articulation of the (positive) impact of the aforementioned (earlier blog) financial service instances has been largely qualitative and subjective, making inferences a...

/wealth /retail Finextra site news

Victor Martin

Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot

How Much Should Companies Invest In Their Marketing Spend?

Milan Cundera once declared, "Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation." Even though ongoing studies demonstrate a higher Return On Investment (ROI) with investing in Marketing, businesses often neglect this critical component of their operation to focus on Innovation alone. Investing in both is essential for maintainin...

/startups /markets Financial Inclusion

Sean Salloux

Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital

Digital Payment Innovation is Driving Financial Change in Emerging Markets Worldwide

In emerging markets, digital transactions are booming and providing financial inclusion to underserved countries. Emerging markets are driving technological advancements in the digital payments sector, as non-bank providers capitalise on the need for increased financial accessibility and wider services. Digital wallets, QR codes, and smartphone app...

/payments /crypto Fintech

Deepshikha Mittal

Deepshikha Mittal Senior Manager at Cognizant

FCA MarketWatch 70-Observations and suggestions in Transaction Reporting / Instrument Reference Data

Regulators, in recent years, have increased market surveillance by enforcing mandatory disclosures via Trade and Transaction Reporting (as per MIFID II and EMIR). In MarketWatch 70, the FCA highlighted some observations on the deviation from its regulatory guidance by firms as evidenced in the inaccuracies and shortcomings in their Transaction Rep...

/regulation /wholesale Regulatory Reporting

Daniel Cohen

Daniel Cohen Chief Product Officer at PayU GPO

4 FinTech trends to keep an eye on in 2023

In comparison to 2021, last year saw a slowdown in growth across many fintech sectors, including banking, insurtech, and regtech. Despite this, Deloitte pegs the value of the fintech sector at $180 billion, and projects that figure to soar to a mind-boggling $213 billion by 2024. It’s often during times of recession and economic strain that we...

/predictions Fintech

Brad Goodall

Brad Goodall CEO at BANKED

Add Value or Go Home - why payments delivering customer value and helping merchants foster loyalty

The past 12 months have been tough for payment providers across the board, with market volatility and the end of cheap money leading to funding cuts, mass layoffs, and redundancies. Many firms have been struggling, and certain news stories demonstrate the ongoing challenges. Last year, Klarna laid off 10 per cent of its workforce, and its valuatio...

/payments /startups E-commerce

Brad Goodall

Brad Goodall CEO at BANKED

How to reduce online payment fraud without adding too much friction

Back in 2002, the fraud losses related to eCommerce fraud on UK-issued debt and credit cards amounted to 28 million pounds. Decades later, that number continues to skyrocket, with the annual losses hitting 376.5 million pounds as of 2020. During the pandemic, as people spent more time online than ever, there were new waves of online crime. Ove

/payments /crime Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Bency Byju

Bency Byju Consulting Patner at Not Applicable

How Digital twin technology can be leveraged in insurance industry

How Digital twin technology can be leveraged in insurance industry Digital Twin technology has been around for decades. The concept is believed to have its origin at NASA when simulations were carried out to bring back the Apollo 13 astronauts. Gartner defines digital twin as a digital representation of a real-world entity or system. Simulations ...

/predictions Digital Insurance Trends

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Retired Member 

What the financial sector should expect from blockchain in 2023

We are entering 2023 with tighter belts this year. However, we leave 2022 with unmatched blockchain experience, both good and bad. Will trends from 2022 roll into the new year? We look at how the financial system reacted to distributed ledger technology (DLT) in 2022 and what that predicts about its direction in 2023. Cutting a long story short, ...

/markets /predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Brian Montgomery

Brian Montgomery Senior Director, International Finance at Workday

Predictions for CFOs in 2023 and Beyond

In this turbulent macroeconomic environment, CFOs are expected to steer the business through difficulties, outwit the opposition, and come out stronger on the other side. This calls for financial executives to be flexible, set new priorities, and reevaluate what is technically and procedurally feasible. CFOs and their teams will need to reimagin...

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