1068 Results from 2020
Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier Founder and CEO at iBanFirst
In a globalised economy, being able to make and receive payments in international currencies is critical for businesses of all sizes, including start-ups and SMEs. Yet the costs of doing so can be substantial, and small businesses are disproportionately affected. High upfront fees for making international payments are just part of the problem. Mor...
26 February 2020 /payments Fintech
Rishi Chauhan Strategy Director at Haydon & Company Limited
This blog builds on the last blog, that can be found here[1]. The reader may wish to read the last one for context, although this blog should make sense on its own as well. Here, the attempt is to answer the following key question - what could financial technology companies (fintechs) do, to build greater consumer or SME (customer) trust in order...
26 February 2020 Fintech
Sheza Gary Project Strategiest at Self Employed
Many analysts are of the opinion that there is merit in using Bitcoin (BTC) as a safe-haven contrarian investment for hedging purposes. A caveat is in order: "Volatility plays a major role and the BTC value fluctuates at any given time. ResearchGate conducted extensive analysis into the merits of Bitcoin and gold for hedging purposes and thei...
26 February 2020 /markets Cryptocurrency Insights
Retired Member
The overhaul of the financial services industry in the post Great Financial Crisis (GFC) era has created a swathe of new rules and regulations for the regulators to monitor, and financial firms to adhere to. While such changes have presented firms with significant challenges, transforming how they operate and behave on a day-to-day basis, it has c...
25 February 2020 /regulation /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Thomas Pintelon Head of Strategy at Capilever
Since 1 July 2007, the Belgian electricity market has been liberalized. While in the first years, only few consumers switched electricity provider, this has reached a new high this year. Incumbent providers are still trying to convince customers with product-differentiation slogans that they offer the best reliability or the greenest electricity. ...
25 February 2020 /retail Financial Risk Management
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In the current digital world, we are continuously digitally transacting with companies all over the world. Each transaction leaves a digital trace, allowing the company (in case of litigation) to prove you, as the user, have explicitly accepted the transaction. However, as you have probably noticed while surfing on the internet, confirming a trans...
24 February 2020 /security Digital Identity Management
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
With the proliferation of algorithms in currency markets and regulatory pressure to prove best execution, buy-side trading desks are adopting algorithms to source liquidity and lower trading costs in FX trading. “Adoption of algorithms and TCA has been growing on the buy side for the past ten years”, said Yue Malan, senior analyst, Aite Group durin...
24 February 2020 /regulation Capital Markets Technology
This blog attempts to answer the following key questions at a high level: What could financial technology companies (fintechs) do to enable greater consumer or SME (customer) adoption of their products and services beyond early adopters? What could fintechs do to pull under-served and well-served customers away from incumbent banks and established...
24 February 2020 /startups Fintech
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
Financial infrastructure plays a critical role in a country’s economic development and stability. It determines how efficiently financial services can be provided. A high-quality infrastructure lends itself, among other benefits, to lower transactional costs and more accurate risk evaluations, improving lending and access to capital. In short, a f...
24 February 2020 /startups /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
This is the third in a series of three blog posts which looks at how a digital finance transformation enables a future-ready finance department - one that can use data, technology and human talent to go beyond governance to provide commercial leadership to the business. In this series I outline how a digital finance transformation enables efficien...
21 February 2020 /regulation /cloud Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
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