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A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.
In 2021, a friend of mine bought an NFT for €1800. Today, it costs €10. The difference is impressive. With the market decline, all token purchases made a year ago lost 80–90% of the margin. The loudes...
Metaverse is the new buzzword in the world of business. It promises to transform customer engagement and deliver a captivating and immersive experience to users. The metaverse exists at the intersecti...
Businesses are losing billions due to poor quality software. And, as the economy tightens and skills remain scarce, this is likely to get worse, forcing them to pay to fix avoidable problems and resul...
Rising inflation across the US, UK and the Eurozone is creating massive pressures across global markets. We’re seeing a reduction in the breadth of credit products, like mortgages, as they become more...
eTRADE eMBRACEING eCOMMERCE Trade, acquiring things we need and want, is the oldest profession known to man. Now I know what everyone thinks of as the oldest profession, but that would not be possible...
The inflationary environment is hitting all corners of the economy. Yes, even financial services companies. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the cost of market data. The challenge for fin...
New rules, like the UK’s Financial Services and Markets Bill and the EU’s Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), should be welcomed, argues Quant’s Founder and CEO, Gilbert Verdian. Republished with the per...
From the very first ATM in the 1960s to the rise of smartphones leading to mobile banking in the 2000s, and now in the booming digital era with super apps and fintechs, the financial industry has evol...
Crypto market is going through wild changes, and record drawdown of key coins during the last five months has made people nervous. However, the current decline is a natural and, in my opinion, tempor
Last year reports of cybersecurity incidents targeting UK financial services providers skyrocketed by more than half in comparison with previous year and the trend continues this year, at even fast
We are truly in the era of the customer. Gone are the days when standard products sets and a one size fits all approach was possible, as technology and intelligence propels us into an ever increasingl...
There is a clear trend with the young generation to be averse of credit cards. They have seen from their parents what a too high usage of credit cards can lead to and at the same time feel that credit...