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Here’s how to get hired at Gresham Technologies
Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Here’s how to get hired at Gresham Technologies

Our Breaking into Fintech series looks into what leading fintech companies are seeking in new hires, to give job-searchers an edge when joining the industry. This time around, Finextra interviewed Tamsyn Cole, director of people and culture at Gresham Technologies, a software company that specialises in reconciliation tools and regulatory reporting...

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Banking customer experience in 2024: Personalisation, accessibility and AI
Tracey Dunlap

Tracey Dunlap MD, Customer Experience at Jenius Bank

Banking customer experience in 2024: Personalisation, accessibility and AI

Financial institutions have undergone a reckoning in the last decade, driven by rapid digital transformation and the explosion of fintech apps providing services for everything from budget tracking to crypto investing. Customers are inundated with banking options, and most aren’t settling for just one. Further, expectations are at an all-time high...

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The death of cash: What does it mean for the future?
Retired Member

Retired Member

The death of cash: What does it mean for the future?

The use of physical cash in payments has gradually declined in recent years as consumers are increasingly using electronic money, whether through cards or mobile payments. Between 2016 and 2022, the proportion of cash transactions declined from 79% to 59% in Europe. This development reflects the growing confidence in digital technology and a stron...

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How upcoming legislation will harness algorithms, AI, and big tech for public good
Chris Holmes

Chris Holmes Peer at House of Lords

How upcoming legislation will harness algorithms, AI, and big tech for public good

The fourth industrial revolution, as with the previous three, has ushered in an age of exciting new opportunities thanks to the digital tools and products now available to us, initiating innovation and making more choice and better services for consumers and citizens possible. These are all positive benefits that we should celebrate but as we desi...

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Labour’s Financial Services Review: Everything fintechs need to know
Níamh Curran

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

Labour’s Financial Services Review: Everything fintechs need to know

The UK’s Labour Party published its Financial Services Review this week and highlighted fintech as the future of financial services in the UK. The Review has been released ahead of a potential election later this year. The foreword of the report said: “We believe a strong financial services sector will drive investment in jobs and new industries....

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Here’s how to get hired at Flutterwave
Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Here’s how to get hired at Flutterwave

In the latest of our Breaking into Fintech series, which dives into the other end of the fintech hiring market and learns from leading companies in the field, Finextra interviewed Flutterwave’s chief people and culture officer, Mansi Babyloni, and associate vice president of talent management, Reni Odebiyi. Flutterwave is a Nigerian fintech compa...

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Cross-border digital wallets are key to financial inclusion
Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Cross-border digital wallets are key to financial inclusion

Cross-border remittances are increasingly essential in a globalised world. With the influx in mobile wallet usage, cross-border payments can become easier, less expensive, and more inclusive to those needing to move money abroad. Payments giant Revolut launched its Mobile Wallets service to ease cross-border remittances using IDs alongside only ph...

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Crypto disputes on the rise – a 2024 look at litigation, arbitration and regulation
Nell Perks

Nell Perks Partner at Latham & Watkins

Crypto disputes on the rise – a 2024 look at litigation, arbitration and regulation

The English courts and international arbitral institutions have observed a steady uptick in crypto disputes (especially fraud claims) as investment in cryptocurrencies has become more widespread. The value of these disputes is on the rise, and they increasingly involve sophisticated commercial entities such as crypto exchanges and lenders, not jus...

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Why developers are the most susceptible to burnout
Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Why developers are the most susceptible to burnout

83% of software developers feel burnout from work. Almost overnight, the world made the switch to digital for a multitude of processes in 2020 and the increased workload this created for developers was not considered. At the time computer scientist Junade Ali designed a study that revealed the high rate of concern developers have for software rel...

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Diversity in tech: Why Gen Z is facing an employment crisis
Sehrish Alikhan

Sehrish Alikhan Reporter at Finextra

Diversity in tech: Why Gen Z is facing an employment crisis

The technology and financial services industry have had ongoing issues with maintaining diversity within the workforce. Women and ethnic minorities are often under-represented in fintech and banking alike. Wiley Edge’s Diversity in Tech Report 2023 dove into how Gen Z is treated in the tech industry and how diversity in tech can be encouraged. Nume...

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Fintech Regulation Update: Preparing for a sustainable Lunar New Year
Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Fintech Regulation Update: Preparing for a sustainable Lunar New Year

Here’s the second edition of a new Finextra long read series summarising the latest regulatory updates impacting the financial services, technology or fintech industries, and how financial market participants should mind the gap between the regulations that have not fully caught up with the pace of innovation. Payments Lunar New Ye...

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Which fintech founders are billionaires?
Dominique Dierks

Dominique Dierks Content Manager at Finextra

Which fintech founders are billionaires?

Last month, City Index released a list of top 10 youngest UK billionaires in 2023. Revolut founder Nik Storonsky emerged in second place, highlighting not just the decreasing age of today’s super-rich, but also the growing wealth emerging from fintechs. Digitisation, evolving consumer demands, and pandemic-induced shifts in the way people save, i...

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