Andrew Bonsall COO at AperiData
Over 20 million adults in the UK are still underserved by the financial system. And it’s not because they’re financially irresponsible—it’s because traditional assessments don’t tell the full story. These individuals might be gig workers with irregular income, young professionals without a credit history, or renters who’ve always paid on time but ...
01 April 2025 Open Banking
Dan Robinson Founder & CEO at Hackford
What does high churn in compliance oversight roles tell us about the financial services landscape? In 2024, the FCA’s SMF16 function—responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance—saw significant turnover, with some segments like building societies reaching a 35.7% churn rate. This isn’t just a staffing issue or an opportunity for recruiters; it’s...
01 April 2025 /regulation /people RegTech
Ankit Batwara Senior Product Manager at ACI Worldwide
$7.6 Billon – Yes this is the amount of loss globally from Authorized Push Payment (APP) scams projected by 2028 out of which around 80% is expected to be from Real time Payments. To mitigate APP fraud, one effective measure is payee or counter party verification during payment initiation, often referred to as Confirmation of Payee. Confirmation of...
01 April 2025 /payments
Francesco Fulcoli Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Flagstone
On 31 March 2025, the Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) announced a significant proposal: raising the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) deposit protection limit from the current £85,000 to £110,000. This move marks the first change in the limit since 2017 and reflects an effort to keep pace with inflation and evol...
01 April 2025 /regulation /retail Fintech
Souvik Chakraborty Product manager and SME at Veefin Solutions
The rise of streaming services like Netflix has transformed the way we consume entertainment. But the impact of Netflix could be extended beyond the entertainment industry, influencing the way businesses operate, including trade and supply chain finance. In this article, we'll explore the Netflix effect on product/solution offerings in Trade and S...
01 April 2025
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
Neobanks — also known as digital-only banks or challenger banks — are at the forefront of financial innovation. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, they offer seamless, customer-centric services without the overhead of traditional banking infrastructure. Gaining traction in the early 2010s, particularly in Europe and the U.S., neobanks have rap
31 March 2025 /retail /startups Fintech World
Cassy Ramsey Chief Risk Officer at Aion Bank
Compliance is often dismissed as a business blocker. In my experience, it can be quite the opposite if organizations can rethink the way they operate. Putting people in the second line of defence on deals from the start has been crucial for Aion Bank to roll out banking-as-a-service to customers, sometimes within weeks. Cassy Ramsey is chief risk...
31 March 2025 /payments /regulation
Gobind Ghattoraya Client Solutions Director at GFT
Hyperpersonalised banking is a customer-centric approach to providing personalised solutions to individuals at the most relevant time using data analytics. Some of the drivers that are fuelling this paradigm shift include: advancements in technology and its use in other industries, combined with the prevalence of smart devices, placing more and mo...
31 March 2025 /retail
What is the biggest risk for an investment manager? Financial risk. All financial services providers are in the business of buying, selling, slicing, and repackaging risk—by financial means. So, a firm's operational risks are mostly also financial risks. And when your marketplace is the financial market, your market risk is really financial risk a...
31 March 2025 /ai /regulation RegTech
Toine Van Beusekom Strategy Director at Icon Solutions
In response to rapidly changing payment requirements, more and more banks are migrating from big monoliths to a microservices approach for payments processing. By leveraging reusable functions related to the critical parts of a payments flow, microservices are a way for banks to accelerate the development and deployment of new capabilities. But if...
31 March 2025 /payments
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