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2025 capital markets trends and Finextra’s predictions for the new year

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

2025 capital markets trends and Finextra’s predictions for the new year

Launching soon, Finextra’s PREDICT 2025 channel will gather insights and ideas from the industry's top thought leaders, capturing how the financial services industry will tap into technology trends in 2025 and these predictions will be shared with our 700,000 monthly readers. From November 2024 to March 2025, Finextra will be hosting video intervi...

14 November 2024 /predictions

US 2024 Elections: What President-Elect Donald Trump’s win means for fintech

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

US 2024 Elections: What President-Elect Donald Trump’s win means for fintech

After passing the threshold of 270 electoral votes needed to win, former President Donald Trump is expected to return to the White House to take up his post for the second time, after beating Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris. After a nail-biting few months, Trump was elected with many of his voters citing inflation as the reason f...

06 November 2024 /predictions

2025 payments trends and Finextra’s predictions for the new year

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

2025 payments trends and Finextra’s predictions for the new year

Launching soon, Finextra’s PREDICT 2025 channel will gather insights and ideas from the industry's top thought leaders, capturing how the financial services industry will tap into technology trends in 2025 and these predictions will be shared with our 700,000 monthly readers. From November 2024 to March 2025, Finextra will be hosting video intervi...

31 October 2024 /predictions

Why registering under Canada’s Retail Payments Activities Act has a multitude of benefits

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Why registering under Canada’s Retail Payments Activities Act has a multitude of benefits

Registering under the Retail Payments Activities Act (RPAA) will allow payments services providers (PSPs) operating in Canada to bolster the safety and reliability of their retail services, while also protecting end users from specific risks. By November 2024, registration will be mandatory because of the importance of secure and effective movemen...

24 October 2024 /regulation

Instant payments will change the payments landscape in 2025

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Instant payments will change the payments landscape in 2025

This is an excerpt from the Future of Payments 2025 report. Will the future of payments be digital, instant and profitable? What is for certain in 2025 is that the payments industry will increasingly become complex and multi-faceted due to the sheer number of players entering the market. New rails will be leveraged to settle a growing number of p...

21 October 2024 /Sibos

US Election 2024: What will Vice President Kamala Harris bring to fintech?

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

US Election 2024: What will Vice President Kamala Harris bring to fintech?

This week, Vice President Harris pledged to provide Black male entrepreneurs with one million forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to help them get their businesses off the ground in collaboration with the Small Business Adminstration, bolstering their potential and removing barriers for this group. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Techno...

15 October 2024 /Sibos

Hurricane Milton: How to avoid natural disaster scams and fraud

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Hurricane Milton: How to avoid natural disaster scams and fraud

As Hurricane Milton gradually tracks away from Florida, leaving deadly storm surges, flooding rain and high winds in its path, it is an unfortunate reality that fraudsters will try and capitalise on the misfortune and vulnerability of those affected. This week, the US Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financi...

10 October 2024 /crime

What California's AI Safety Bill SB 1047 means for fintech

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

What California's AI Safety Bill SB 1047 means for fintech

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that SB 1047, the first-of-its-kind, controversial AI safety state bill that had Silicon Valley tech giants such as Meta, Google and OpenAI divided, had been vetoed by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Here’s everything you need to know. What is SB 1047? Also known as the Safe and Secure Innovation fo...

01 October 2024 /ai

How can a nonprofit become a for-profit?

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

How can a nonprofit become a for-profit?

OpenAI is restructuring to no longer be led by a non-profit board, and will become a for-profit company, as exclusively reported by Reuters. The ChatGPT creator will own a minority stake in the for-profit and CEO Sam Altman will receive equity in OpenAI, predicted to be worth $150 billion and removing the cap on returns for investors. This news ...

30 September 2024 /ai

Payments processing: Why banks should take a composable approach

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Payments processing: Why banks should take a composable approach

Over the last two decades, many banks have faced the frustration of being locked into high operating costs. Minimal budgets cannot meet business needs for expansion or support the improvement of product offerings. This is partly due to regulatory requirements consuming the lion’s share of the budget and the high cost of maintaining legacy systems. ...

24 July 2024 /payments

US election 2024: What will Trump VP pick J.D. Vance bring to fintech?

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

US election 2024: What will Trump VP pick J.D. Vance bring to fintech?

“AI poses a number of safety concerns and I fully admit that there are a number of issues I worry about as AI continues to develop. In particular, you could imagine a scenario where AI makes these chatbots much more efficient, much more believable, allows predators to prey on children more easily online. That is a real concern and something that I...

18 July 2024 /markets

US election 2024: What does Project 2025 say about finance and fintech?

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

US election 2024: What does Project 2025 say about finance and fintech?

We went through The Heritage Foundation’s 922 page document 'Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conversative Promise' so you didn’t have to. While it is common for think-tanks from opposite sides of the political spectrum to propose policies for governments-in-waiting, the initiative dubbed ‘Project 2025’ has resulted in recent widespread concern des...

11 July 2024 /markets

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