1068 Results from 2020
Gustav Korobov Senior Sales Executive - Core Banking platform at Advapay
Today, fintech firms and digital banks have become major disruptors of banking services and have transformed the traditional way of banking and payments that have been practised for years. Naming the most popular ones like digital, neo or challenger banks, everyone understands that they have brought new ideas and elevated customer experience in th...
17 July 2020 /retail /startups Fintech
Vladimir Ershov Head of Data Science & Machine Learning at Clausematch
Last week, the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics took place online. Most of the discussion was dedicated to AI and linguistics, with round tables based around cognitive and computational building blocks for creating more natural and human-like language in machines. Events like this are a valuable source of unique...
17 July 2020 /regulation /devops Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Tim Simon CEO at Madiston plc
Is there any aspect of our lives that isn’t wholly dependent upon trust? Our relationships with our partners, family, friends, colleagues, suppliers of our goods and services, medics, law makers, governments, world leaders – all fundamentally rely on trust. With it, those relationships can be successful and productive. Without it, relationships...
16 July 2020 /retail /covid-19 Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Hugh Cumberland Director - UK & EMEA at txtsmarter
The advent of the telephone nearly 150 years ago, followed by the rapid creation of local, national and then international telephone networks, put an end to the use of the telegraph in trading of financial products fairly swiftly. But it was not long before traders grew frustrated with exchange- based telephone services – due to unanswered calls a...
16 July 2020 /regulation /covid-19
Andrew Beatty Head of Wealth, Retirement & International at FIS
There is no more business as usual. Even before the sweeping changes brought about by the pandemic, global banking and payments were already experiencing unmatched upheaval – and that pace of change is now accelerating. Digitalization redefines what’s possible in the banking industry. On the supply side, boundaries between channels and services ar...
16 July 2020 /payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Sunil Jhamb Founder and CEO at WLPayments
Purchasing items on social media is a growing international trend with huge potential. During the COVID-19 crisis, 42% of people in an international Global Web Index survey reported spending a greater amount of time on the likes of Facebook and Instagram. And with social distancing continuing for months, that trend is likely to continue. Accordin...
16 July 2020 /security /payments The future of Payments in Europe
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Regulatory distribution is systemically broken The conventional way governments distribute rules for use by citizens, businesses, other private actors and for the institutions of government is through documents and other forms of content. As highlighted in an earlier paper “The Dangerous Risk of Interactions with Regulation”[i], the use of docume...
16 July 2020 /regulation /cloud Fintech innovation and startups
Nikhita Hyett Managing Director - Europe at BlueSnap
The retail and ecommerce industry has already seen a number of significant unexpected events to contend with in 2020. The effects from the unplanned outage caused by Wirecard’s issues can be added to a growing list of unwelcome surprises this year, which have put huge pressure on retailers from both a financial and a technical perspective. For any...
16 July 2020 /payments /regulation
Oliver Kroll Managing Director at Scorable (part of the BondIT Global Group)
As lockdowns following the Covid-19 outbreak are easing, we see some cautious optimism about a beginning economic recovery. But there’s no doubt that this crisis will take its toll on growth in 2020 and beyond. In a report released last month, the OECD outlined two equally probable - and equally gloomy - scenarios for the world economy. In the “
15 July 2020 /markets /covid-19 Financial Risk Management
Olivier Gazon CEO at Sustainable Base Finance
The current economic slump creates a trade finance paradox: Banks do not grant new credit limits, tight be regulatory constraints. Credit insurers face deep losses on traditional credit insurance schemes. Credit reinsurers have substantial reinsurance capacity available but cannot place it. The result: major losses for all parties. Heading towar...
15 July 2020 /wholesale /covid-19 Financial Supply Chain
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.