Sehrish Alikhan - Community Author: Finextra Research

IFGS 2024: What do the 2024 elections mean for international finance?

What do the UK, US, Mexico, South Africa, European Parliament, and India have in common? They, among many other countries, are all holding elections in 2024, which will impact the geopolitical state of the world and the global banking industry. In the session ‘The Globe At The Polls: What 40+ Elections Around The World In 2024 Means For Our Sec...

17 April 2024 /markets

Apple’s digital wallet monopoly: The juicy drama

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Apple’s digital wallet monopoly: The juicy drama

Digital banking is at the core in the war against Apple’s monopolisation of smartphones that has been occurring on a global scale. In the last few years, tech giant Apple has been hit by multiple lawsuits for monopolising the smartphone market by blocking third-party apps from offering contactless payments on their devices. Russia and US pushback ...

10 April 2024 /regulation

Climate anxiety on the rise as environmental crisis looms on the horizon

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Climate anxiety on the rise as environmental crisis looms on the horizon

Global warming, environmental catastrophes, and natural disasters are becoming more commonplace globally. With the climate crisis looming above our heads, there has been a serious negative impact on the general public’s mental health. Along with fear, hopelessness is encroaching on minds globally, with climate anxiety affecting people on a daily ba...

03 April 2024 /people

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What are eSIMs and what can they do?

eSIMs are a recent trend that have taken the world by storm. Short for embedded Subscriber Identity Module, eSIMs are designed as an alternative to the physical, plastic SIMs that you slot into your phone. SIMs hold your mobile number and allow you to send texts and receive calls on your phone. SIMs ease the process of changing your phone, but can ...

27 March 2024 /devops

Silicon Valley Bank collapse one year on: What was the impact?

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Silicon Valley Bank collapse one year on: What was the impact?

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed one year ago on Sunday, an event which created a ripple effect of widespread damage across the financial sector. The failure of SVB was the third-largest in US history, and the biggest bank to shutdown that year. Finextra previously covered the downfall of SVB, explaining the reasons for its failure, which was a...

11 March 2024 /markets

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What are AI chatbots?

The hottest trend in tech and financial services has been artificial intelligence (AI) and its infinite potential to revolutionise and transform the industry to make it more efficient, reliable, secure, and accessible. However, as AI grows in popularity, fear of the sentient AI also lurks in the back of many minds. Not exactly the apocalyptic Termi...

07 March 2024 /devops

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Top 5 payments updates this month

The payments field is a fast-paced and dynamic sector, with an increasing amount of products and services being launched on the daily. To keep updated with the latest innovations, here are the top stories in cards and digital payments in February 2024. Check out my colleague Niamh Curran’s payments update to see what you missed in January 2024. BN...

28 February 2024 /payments

EU CBDC: What do we know so far about the digital euro?

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

EU CBDC: What do we know so far about the digital euro?

The European Central Bank (ECB) has been working on developing the digital euro, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) that would operate as an electronic equivalent to cash in the EU. The progress on the digital currency has not been without its hiccups, with the ECB recently publishing blog post debunking common myths on the impact of the digi...

21 February 2024 /crypto

Spotify is David, Apple is Goliath, and the DMA could be its slingshot

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Spotify is David, Apple is Goliath, and the DMA could be its slingshot

The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is coming into action on March 7, 2024, and it’s making Big Tech sweat. The new antitrust EU regulation’s aim is to make digital markets more equitable and competitive, and is doing so by categorising certain big monopolising companies as ‘gatekeepers’. Gatekeepers are defined as having core platform offerings in...

21 February 2024 /regulation

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Here's how to get hired at Sonovate

Our Breaking into Fintech series presents those looking to get hired in the fintech industry an insight into what skills and values fintech businesses are prioritising in the current market. This time Finextra heard from Elise Lockyer, chief people officer at Sonovate, an invoicing financing solutions company which recently launched internationally...

19 February 2024 /people

Lost my heart to a deepfake: Dump your fraudster this Valentine’s

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Lost my heart to a deepfake: Dump your fraudster this Valentine’s

Shadows are creeping up from the depths of the dark web, ensnaring lonely hearts at their lowest by using loving words and falsified images to sink their claws into their bank accounts, emptying their funds and leaving them heartbroken and penniless. Romance fraud has become a common form of gaining the trust of a victim to financially exploit the...

14 February 2024 /crime

How are bank closures impacting local communities?

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

How are bank closures impacting local communities?

Following the news of HSBC installing its first ever ‘cash pod’ in Nasilea, North Somerset comes the questioning of how the general public will gain access to cash among numerous bank branch shutdowns. HSBC announced the closing down of 114 bank branches in the UK from April 2023, reporting the reason for the closures due to low footfall for in-pe...

07 February 2024 /inclusion

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