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The crucial role of seamless bills and payments processes to organisational success

While the benefits of fast payment processing for merchants and e-billers are well understood – the pressures of today’s payment landscape mean that the need for seamless billing and payment has never been more pronounced, regardless of whether payments are digital or paper-based. Firms are juggling the pressures to remain compliant with new regul...

29 April 2024 /payments

Kirstie McDermott Senior Content Editor at Amply

How to develop green skills

Last year, 39% of UK residents said they were “very concerned” about the effects of climate change, with another 43% indicating that they were “fairly concerned”. Just 4% said they weren't at all concerned, according to the DESNZ Public Attitudes Tracker. The figures also show that those who are the most worried tend to be in the over-65 bracket (...

26 April 2024 /people

How to define cloud sovereignty and the quest for balance

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

How to define cloud sovereignty and the quest for balance

With the everchanging geopolitical landscape and new regulations coming to the fore, where data is kept, where it is shared, and who can access it are all considerations for financial institutions in a world where more data equals more power. As a growing amount of data is stored in cloud-based data centres, the EU, US, and China have issued regul...

24 April 2024 /cloud

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

What Gen Z want from UK fintech

As the digital era of financial services progresses, the UK fintech sector has reached new and diverse audiences that have varying demands from their financial providers. Gen Z is a significant demographic that are currently entering or are in the workforce, and having been raised in a more virtual and digitalised environment, expect ease, speed, ...

19 April 2024 /retail

What will the UK climate fintech space look like in 2035?

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

What will the UK climate fintech space look like in 2035?

This is an extract from the recently published report, 'The Future of UK Fintech - 2015-2035'. 2006 ‘The Economics of Change – The Stern Review’ released by Nicholas Stern: the report assessed a wide range of evidence on the impacts of climate change and on the economic costs. The conclusion of the study is that the benefit of a strong and early ac...

18 April 2024 /sustainable

Will embedded finance change UK fintech by 2035?

Scott Hamilton Contributing Editor at Finextra Research

Will embedded finance change UK fintech by 2035?

Buying vs. building is not going away, it’s accelerating in the business world. This is an extract from the recently published report, 'The Future of UK Fintech - 2015-2035'. Three in five (60%) UK adults has used embedded finance services as part of the checkout process when shopping online in the past 12 months. Embedded finance services include...

18 April 2024 /payments

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

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

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

Top technologies that will disrupt UK fintech

Karan Jain CEO at NayaOne

Top technologies that will disrupt UK fintech

The UK has made itself a centre for innovative technologies which evolve, disrupt and drive the global fintech ecosystem. This is an extract from the recently published report, 'The Future of UK Fintech - 2015-2035'. The UK fintech environment provides a perfect recipe to help foster innovations which are transformative, as well as impactful. T...

16 April 2024 /cloud

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

What will UK fintech look like in 2035?

Huge growth across the UK fintech industry over the last decade has been driven by a combination of factors, namely support from the UK government and regulators such as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Because of this, the development between 2025 and 2035 will unsurprisingly be substantial. This is an extract from the recently published re...

16 April 2024 /startups

5 common types of data breaches in the financial sector

Dominique Dierks Content Manager at Finextra

5 common types of data breaches in the financial sector

Global cybercrime is thriving. The 2023 UK Cyber Security Breaches Survey found that over the last 12 months, 32% of businesses have experienced a data breach, with that number climbing to a stunning 69% for large businesses. The financial sector is a popular target for cybercriminals, and ranks second in the global cyber incident damage statisti...

12 April 2024 /security

Survival tactics for hybrid working: A guide

Aoibhinn Mc Bride Content Editor at Jobbio

Survival tactics for hybrid working: A guide

Do you feel as though you are constantly wading through a never-ending sea of video call requests? Or maybe you feel disconnected from your colleagues—figuratively and literally—and are struggling to collaborate on projects, and would much rather you were left alone to focus in peace and complete tasks solo. While hybrid work has afforded many pos...

12 April 2024 /people

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

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