Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre. Please read our Privacy Policy.
Fintech discussions and conversations around the development of fintech.
RBS’s recent announcement that it will close its ‘green-field’ challenger bank Bó did not surprise many in the FinTech industry. The writing had been on the wall for some time. The digital-only bank m...
Financial Technology or Fintech is having a major impact on the world right now. These are the companies directly competing with the traditional financial service providers trying to come up with more...
This really is the decade of the Fintech start-up. The payments world is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change; new payment methods and technologies are resulting in increasingly frictionless p...
The finance industry is a prime use case for machine learning, thanks to the abundant data sets, access to capital and strong incentive for efficiency and predicting future outcomes. While rule-based ...
Online crime gangs were quick to capitalise on Coronavirus. So much so that almost 3% of global spam is estimated to be Covid-19 related, according to internet security company Sophos, and 36% of peop...
At a time, when banks are finalizing their Open APIs, fintechs are developing their superb applications, and consumers are thinking whether they need Open Banking or not, I decided to share my thought...
The global gaming industry has been growing rapidly in recent years and continues to flourish; it’s predicted to be worth more than $565 billion by 2022. That’s an increase of more than $100 billion s...
Last summer, experts predicted that global ecommerce sales would increase by 16% in 2020. Of course, they were not able to predict COVID-19 crisis and the impact it would have on consumer behaviour. ...
During his 1962 State of the Union Address, John F. Kennedy declared: “The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”. While the original philosophy behind the sentiment wasn’t intended ...
The European market moved from a passive state of tighter spreads, lower volumes and longer resting times during January and early February to a much more aggressive state in late February and March t...
COVID-19: changing the rules of engagement For many years, banks and financial institutions have been reluctant to adopt cloud technologies. The root of the banking industry’s problem is the reliance ...
Recently we were Finextra’s guest for a webinar on 'Big Data: Empowering banks to drive customer-centricity'. We shared insights on how we see the banking industry changing due to several causes. An o...