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A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.
The last two years have been tumultuous for nearly everyone. From mandated closures, lockdowns, anxieties around health and work, and well… the general state of the world, things have not been easy. T...
Over the past two challenging years, the remittance industry proved to be amazingly resilient and investment in fintech in general has reached unprecedented levels. 2022 begins with a promise of a fre...
The world today is awash with money. The global broad money supply is reaching $ 90 Trillion, the United States alone contributing about $ 30 Trillion. Roughly 30% of US money supply was added in th...
FinTechs have one main advantage in the market - flexibility. They have been able to move quickly to develop new features and roll them out before traditional banks could. Now however, we see traditio...
The energy and commodity markets are constantly changing, and have recently experienced extreme fluctuations in price due to global gas shortages, post-lockdown industrial demand, and low wind generat...
On July 22nd, FINRA CEO Robert Cook revealed that a sweep related to financial services influencers ‘is coming’. It eventually arrived in September, hot on the heels of the SEC requesting comment on t...
It’s been a boom year for startup financing in Europe, which is great news because the world needs innovative startups to take on the big challenges it's facing, from pandemic recovery to climate chan...
By now, most organisations in the business of delivering software will likely have a DevOps strategy. Even if adoption is only partial, the maturity of DevOps enables firms to improve delivery by impl...
The move from traditional credit card and consumer-finance solutions to more customer-centric payment solutions has undoubtedly been accelerated by the pandemic. As we emerge into a new cashless era (...
Back when we first heard of Bitcoin in 2009, many brushed off the cryptocurrency as just a new fad, refusing to believe that technology had the power to impact such a stalwart industry as finance. Now...
As climate change continues to move up the agenda of not just policy makers, but also the wider public, many of us were glued to watching the events unfold at this year’s annual United Nations Climate...
Telephone banking and chatbots unsurprisingly proved popular for customers during the pandemic because of how they allowed them to interact with people at their bank in a safe and convenient way. Rese...