1148 Results from 2018
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Artificial Intelligence was everywhere at Sibos 2018. Not in the form of sentient bots roaming the halls (although Accenture did have a humanoid robot on their stand), but in the content of plenaries, panels and pitches. Some refused to use the overarching term AI to describe what’s being done today, instead preferring to refer to machine learnin...
07 November 2018 /ai /sibos
Dubai is a delight to the eyes and to the heart, I am sure you are nodding your head in agreement with what we have just asserted. Rich lifestyle is an attribute that is deeply entrenched in this city, not forgetting that this lifestyle is a fast-moving one which is not only allowing the city to grow but is also breeding growth in its inhabitants....
07 November 2018 /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Sameer Singh Jaini CEO at www.TheDigitalFifth.com
Fintechs have shown the path of digital innovations across payments, lending, wealth, insurance etc. As their business model is almost 100% focused on digital innovations (even if overall business may be pure digital or phy-gital), they are able to leverage the innovations to create top line as well as bottomline (may be bleeding initially). Legac...
07 November 2018 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
The open-loop prepaid market is booming, and all signs point to another record-setting year. The Canadian open-loop prepaid market has grown 27 percent over the last three years, according to the Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization’s (CPPO) most recent annual study, which was conducted by Mercator Advisory Group. Nearly $4 billion was loaded ...
06 November 2018 /payments
5 of the Hottest Fintech start-ups to Watch in 2019 Who are the fintech start-ups worth banking on in the year ahead? We are in the grip of a fintech revolution and 2019 is set to be a pivotal year, with seismic developments ranging from Brexit ructions to the onset of GDPR, the implementation of open banking data aka PSD2 and the ongoing evolutio...
06 November 2018 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
As a Money 20/20 series regular, arriving at this year’s show in the ever-buzzing Las Vegas, I prepared myself for four days packed with futuristic visions and startling concepts for how we might be paying in fifty years’ time. Bizarrely refreshingly, however, was the return to the near future. Or, rather, the realization that those topics once co...
06 November 2018 /payments Fintech
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
“I’m sorry, we are just not that innovative here”, said bartender in Ritz-Carlton hotel in Singapore. “Please, I need your card, enter PIN, and now sign here too”. Yep, Singapore is no Iceland, or China, or even Moscow. For those spoilt by the ApplePay or GooglePay mobile payments, Singapore might not give you the smooth experience. We can observ...
06 November 2018 /payments Asia Financial Services
Mobile commerce has risen rapidly, growing by 40% in 2017 alone. Not only does spend on mobile account for 60% of all ecommerce spend, spend on mobile now accounts for 6% of total retail sales globally! That is now $1.4 trillion USD per year! This shift is having a major and sometimes devastating impact on the retail and finance sectors. But rath...
06 November 2018
A few years back - incorporating AI in digital marketing was very much reluctant, but now, AI is evolving and has made its prominence in all aspects of our life, and; digital marketing is not an exception. Various surveys indicate that AI and ML would be the most critical platform for multiple innovations and pay the way for all the emerging techn...
06 November 2018 /ai Data Management 101
Fintech has taken over the financial industry, and it looks like we’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg here, as more changes are coming in the near future. The real estate sector is one that’s been particularly noticeably affected by the recent advances of fintech, and it’s important to pay attention to current trends if one wants to secure a s...
06 November 2018 Fintech
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