Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank
Global wealth is on the move, quietly but decisively. Across continents, high-net-worth individuals and family offices are reassessing where they hold their assets, establish residence, and structure their businesses. The traditional bastions of capital: North America and Western Europe are tightening taxes and regulations at a pace that is promp
09 November 2025 /wealth /predictions Trends in Financial Services
Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group
Understanding how stablecoins are transforming Global Finance — and the urgent need for coherent, Cross-Border Regulation. 1. Introduction: The Emergence of Stablecoins as a Systemically Relevant Asset Class The global financial landscape is witnessing the rapid ascent of a new asset class: the stablecoin. With a market capitalization now soaring t...
08 November 2025 /payments /crypto
Kaustuv Ghosh CEO at Nxtgen Payment Infra
We are hurtling headlong towards co-existing with machines. I will not write about the good or bad here-it will need a book. Instead, I would like to put forward one use case and hope people can debate this a bit. Debate and free discussion is extremely, extremely important for personal and professional progress-and the business of tech. Let's ta...
08 November 2025 /ai Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Paul Holt EMEA Group Vice President at Digicert
There’s a lot of talk right now about artificial intelligence, automation and blockchain. But quietly, in the background, another technological shift is gathering pace, which is one that will redefine the foundations of digital security and trust. Quantum computing has moved from theory to practicality faster than anyone expected. What used to be c...
07 November 2025 /ai /security Information Security
How Strategic Pessimism Builds Resilience in Risk Management and Life. For decades, the business and self-help worlds have been flooded with the gospel of positive thinking. We’re told to “stay optimistic,” “visualize success,” and “banish negativity.” Yet, in the world I’ve inhabited for close to forty years — operational risk management in bankin...
07 November 2025 Operational Risk Management
Nkahiseng Ralepeli VP of Product: Digital Assets at Absa Bank, CIB.
Tokenisation has shifted from concept to operating agenda - it is literally everywhere now as a tag line. Exchanges, CSDs, transfer agents, custodians, banks, and fintech platforms are building rails for tokenised cash, funds, treasuries, repos, private credit, real estate, and increasingly, public securities. The motivation is not novelty, it is ...
07 November 2025 /crypto /markets
Rural and small community banks are where large numbers of people and small businesses find access to lending and wealth creation. This is as much true in Asia as it is anywhere else. Community banks in non-metropolitan areas have to contend with high penetration of smartphones and varied product offers from neo or digital banks. At the same time, ...
07 November 2025 /ai /retail Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
I was very impressed by the German estimate that large and medium sized enterprises will save 84,7bn€/year - only in master data work - by taking EUBWs in use. https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/27963/in-germany-847-billion-euros-is-a-lot-of-money And this more easily taken in use by using DIIP. https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/29252/diip-h...
06 November 2025 /ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services
Mark Whale Global Account Director at FICO
CROs are taking on broader roles, covering risks for which it’s extremely rare to have the full breadth of expertise. Mark Whale from global analytics software leader FICO discusses how a host of new risk categories are making the CRO’s role tougher than ever, and spurring the rise of the Super CRO. The role of the Chief Risk Officer at a bank is ...
06 November 2025 /security /regulation
Andrew Bonsall COO at AperiData
Key takeaways UK SME lending has fallen 20% in real terms over the past decade, leaving a £22bn funding gap. Traditional credit data and manual processes keep viable firms locked out of finance. Open Banking gives lenders real-time visibility of SME cashflow and affordability. Consistent, complete and current data supports faster, fairer lendi...
06 November 2025
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