1516 Results from 2023
Stuart Smith Head of Business Development at Acadia
In recent years, the financial industry has embraced the power of big data to gain valuable insights and drive better decision making. From identifying market trends and creating quantitative trading strategies to detecting fraud and managing risk, big data has become an indispensable tool for finance professionals. One of the key challenges of ...
10 January 2023 /payments /regulation
Ray Connolly Sales Director at Regtick
A compliance officer's journey towards ensuring regulatory compliance is challenging and fraught with obstacles. In today's world of constant change, new and amended regulations are introduced frequently on top of the constant pressure to reduce costs while increasing efficiencies. The Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) has the responsibility to ens...
10 January 2023 /regulation
Retired Member
The financial sector is facing several unprecedented challenges as we head into 2023. The future is uncertain; from political instability and economic uncertainty to technological disruption and changing consumer behaviour, financial organisations are looking for new ways to support customers. While the financial sector has long relied on traditio...
10 January 2023 /retail /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Jamel Derdour CMO at Transact365 / Nucleus365
The embedded finance market has been growing at pace since 2020. COVID proved to be a crucial catalyst, accelerating e-commerce, financial digitalisation, and consumers’ changing expectations. To add to that, fintech companies have been catching up with – and in some cases outpacing – traditional banks when it comes to gaining consumers’ trust in ...
10 January 2023 /payments /markets Embedded Finance
Lissele Pratt Co-founder at Capitalixe
Virtual IBANs: Removing Friction in Cross-Border Payments In the past, businesses wanting to engage in cross-border payments had to set up physical bank accounts in each jurisdiction. This was time-consuming, expensive and often required a great deal of paperwork. However, with the advent of new technology, businesses can now use virtual IBANs to m...
10 January 2023 /payments /markets Borderless World
Anna Monteiro Global Head of Business and Product Development at www.solutions-atlantic.com
It was a busy fourth quarter for regulations concerning foreign direct investment. It seems that not all were watching the World Cup. Several jurisdictions issued consultations concerning qualified holdings and investment screening: EU ECB – issued consultation (now closed) on a draft Guide which aims to increase transparency by clarifying the ECB...
09 January 2023 /regulation /markets Financial Services Regulation
Inna Demchenko Head of project at Bank
The number of bank branches in Ukraine and Europe is rapidly decreasing, so from 2008 to 2022, the number of branches in the EU decreased by 39%, from 225 thousand to 134 thousand, while in Ukraine during the same period the number of branches decreased more than 4 times, from 21 thousand to 5.5 thousand subdivisions as of the end of 2022. Accordi...
09 January 2023 /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Gilbert Verdian Founder and CEO at Quant
Blockchain use cases abounded in 2022, but we’ve only scratched the surface of what this transformative technology can help achieve. What’s coming down the track in 2023 for the interplay between distributed ledger technology (DLT) and the financial services sector? 1. There will be agreement that the unregulated crypto experiment has failed ...
09 January 2023 /regulation /wholesale
Cristian Gheorghita Director of Sales at Fintech Galaxy
A few years since Open Banking took off in Bahrain, the local community is yet to witness a plethora of use cases built on top of Open Banking capabilities. Bahrain has been leading the financial services’ transformation in the MENA region, especially when it comes to regulating the participants’ interaction under the Open Banking umbrella. The Bah...
09 January 2023 /payments /regulation Open Banking
Paul Shumsky Technology Advisor at Entrepreneur
One of the leading countries currently setting the bar in the developing fintech business in the Arab region is the United Arab Emirates. According to studies, UAE accounted for 47% of all financial tech deals and 69% of total funding in the MENA region and is home to the majority of the region’s fintech start-ups. Driving this growth are these th...
09 January 2023 /retail /markets
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