Hamish Monk - Community Author: Finextra Research

The future of NFTs: Democratising space and digitising endangered species

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

The future of NFTs: Democratising space and digitising endangered species

Earlier this year, the non-fungible token (NFT) bubble had swollen to colossal proportions. With the likes of musical artists such as Grimes selling $6 million worth of cryptoart in February, and artist Beeple’s ‘Everydays – The First 5000 Days’ piece pulling in $69 million at Christies in March, the NFT goldrush was in full swing. By April, howe...

17 August 2021 /sustainable

The IPCC climate change report: How is the fintech community responding?

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

The IPCC climate change report: How is the fintech community responding?

A ‘code red for humanity’ has been declared, in the form of the first major review of climate change since 2013, and the sixth report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – published on Monday. In response, the fintech community has called for further collaboration, and widespread investment in natural capital and clean t...

10 August 2021 /sustainable

Demystifying the role of the fintech CIO

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Demystifying the role of the fintech CIO

This series of articles looks to demystify the various C-level roles within fintech companies today – exploring the career paths taken by top managers, their critical skills, daily responsibilities and challenges, and even how the pandemic has impacted their understanding of running a successful business. This fifth instalment in the C-suite Serie...

14 July 2021 /people

Demystifying the role of the fintech CFO

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Demystifying the role of the fintech CFO

This series of articles looks to demystify the various C-level roles within fintech companies today – exploring the career paths taken by top managers, their critical skills, daily responsibilities and challenges, and even how the pandemic has impacted their understanding of running a successful business. This fourth instalment in the C-suite Seri...

09 July 2021 /people

The future of payments: New assets - new security challenges

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

The future of payments: New assets - new security challenges

By some, blockchain technology is considered a strong means of combatting rising cases of chargebacks, which come hand-in-hand with financial fraud. Indeed, it can be extremely difficult for fraudsters to extract customers’ information from a blockchain system, since it is decentralised, and distributed across a network of computers that form digit...

28 June 2021 /crime

The future of payments: Perfecting payments protection

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

The future of payments: Perfecting payments protection

With merchants leaning on card-not-present payments during the pandemic, and consumers themselves further embracing online banking, new opportunities have been created for financial criminals to exploit weaknesses in the digital payments system, and defraud people out of their hard-earned cash. Therefore, financial institutions are adjusting their...

23 June 2021 /security

Leveraging fraud and risk data to enhance customer experience

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Leveraging fraud and risk data to enhance customer experience

In the wake of the widespread shift to digital banking and commerce caused by national lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic, fraud teams have seen a sharp increase in cybercrime. This has been an upward trend for some time. Since 2011, financial crime has more than tripled, to $32 billion in 2020. By 2027, it is expected to exceed $40 billion by...

16 June 2021 /crime

Demystifying the role of the fintech COO

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Demystifying the role of the fintech COO

This series of articles looks to demystify the various C-level roles within fintech companies today – exploring the career paths taken by top managers, their critical skills, daily responsibilities and challenges, and even how the pandemic has impacted their understanding of running a successful business. This third instalment of the C-suite Seri...

28 May 2021 /people

Demystifying the role of the fintech CTO

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Demystifying the role of the fintech CTO

This series of articles looks to demystify the various C-level roles within fintech companies today – exploring the career paths taken by top managers, their critical skills, daily responsibilities and challenges, and even how the pandemic has impacted their understanding of running a successful business. This second instalment of the C-suite Ser...

26 May 2021 /people

Demystifying the role of the fintech CEO

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

Demystifying the role of the fintech CEO

This series of articles looks to demystify the various C-level roles within fintech companies today – exploring the career paths taken by top managers, their critical skills, daily responsibilities, challenges, and even how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted their understanding of running a successful business. Widely used terminology for describ...

24 May 2021 /people

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

The real price of the bitcoin gold rush

With international focus on sustainability sharpening, the energy consumption of the world’s first ever popular virtual currency, bitcoin, is being put under the microscope. Its most vehement detractors argue bitcoin uses an unjustifiable amount of energy, and represents a thorn in the side of the wider green transition. Bitcoin’s advocates, on th...

13 May 2021 /crypto

We are what we invest in: The importance of gender lens investing

Hamish Monk Reporter at Finextra

We are what we invest in: The importance of gender lens investing

What is gender lens investing? How do we advance gender diversity and inclusion in the fintech and renewable energy sectors? Can we accurately measure the impact of gender-smart investment? Answering these questions successfully will have a profoundly positive impact on the global economy. At SME Finance Forum’s virtual webinar ‘Gender Lens...

14 April 2021 /inclusion

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