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Guy Melamed

New Year’s Resolutions for Market Infrastructures in 2024

Traditional financial infrastructure providers are increasingly considering upgrading their trading systems to align with modern times. This is both based upon strategic developments taking place over...

11 Jan 2024
Capital Market Technology
Priya Kumari

The Resilience of Credit Unions: Shaping the Future of Consumer Loans

Introduction While credit unions have experienced a slight slowdown in growth, they have proven to be more resistant to market fluctuations compared to banks. Despite facing challenges, credit unions ...

11 Jan 2024
Banking
Steve Wilcockson

Niklaus Wirth, and How Financial Computing Can Help Save The Planet

More than a few computing luminaries have sadly passed over recently, unsurprising given many pioneers from the fifties, sixties, and seventies reaching end of life. One who caught my eye was Niklaus ...

11 Jan 2024
Capital Markets Technology
Janine Grainger

Crypto ETFs have been approved - a simple guide to what it means for investing in crypto and beyond…

Listening to the news, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s approval of a Bitcoin spot exchange traded fund (ETF) has widely been lauded as ‘the legitimisation’ of Bitcoin and other cry...

11 Jan 2024
John Bertrand

Will HSBC become the Google of Forex?

Brilliant start to the year with HSBC head of wealth announcing a new Foreign Exchange (Forex) app to take on Wise (1). The app is for existing and new customers wanting to make foreign exchange trans...

05 Jan 2024
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Steve Wilcockson

Three GenAI Terms Financial Practitioners Learnt in 2023

2023 was a troublesome year for many on our planet – wars, violence, population displacement, catastrophes, extremism, higher costs of living and poverty. Folks working in our industry were comparativ...

03 Jan 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Shoshana Weizenblut

The Hottest Innovations of 2023 that Revolutionized Agriculture

As our planet takes on the challenges of an ever-growing population, necessity is at the forefront of agricultural innovation. Advanced technologies in the agricultural sector are helping usher in an ...

28 Dec 2023
Business
David Newns

Blockchain Technology: The Future of Finance or a Distant Dream?

Blockchain has emerged as a transformative force, promising to reshape the very foundations of capital markets. As we navigate through this era of unprecedented innovation, it becomes imperative to un...

22 Dec 2023
Blockchain in Banking and Financial Services
Priya Kumari

The Emergence of Embedded Fintech in the European Office of CFO SaaS

The European office of CFO SaaS is witnessing a fierce battleground as leading SaaS platforms embrace the integration of FinTech solutions with their software workflows. In this article, we delve into...

18 Dec 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Nick Hall

The future of retail trading relies on trust and transparency

Following a turbulent year for retail trading, Nick Hall, co-founder at Stocknet Institute, discusses why trust, transparency and education must become the essential ground rules for a positive and in...

15 Dec 2023
Fintech
Maria Schuld

Enabling Proactive Risk Management

Why manage risk? Banking leaders realize their organizations are exposed to more risk than in the past given the scope of cyber occurrences, more frequent global and geographic catastrophic events, an...

12 Dec 2023
Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Drake Paulson

Private Equity's New Frontier: Targeting Individual Investors Amidst Rising Challenges

The democratization of private markets has captured the industry’s attention, and it’s easy to understand why. Individual investors own about half of the estimated $275 trillion in global assets under...

12 Dec 2023
Capital Markets Technology

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