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Fintech discussions and conversations around the development of fintech.
It truly feels that the world is becoming smaller. We now live in a global economy where the ability to make international transactions – for businesses and consumers – is almost taken for granted. De...
As the fallout from the FTX collapse continues, the crypto industry is reckoning with a major lack of trust and transparency. It is telling that the industry has become so used to major hacks and coll...
The Republic of Cyprus is a haven for entrepreneurs who need to set up a company, in most cases due to its dynamic relationship with global trade and the favorable tax rates it offers. What are the ad...
Fintech, a multifaceted industry, has gained considerable popularity, with banks and insurance companies leading the charge for its growth. Eager to acquire any promising technology, these players hav...
Following industry turbulence, governments in the US, UK, and Europe are proposing measures to protect digital asset owners from the threat of unregulated risk. The fall of FTX has capped off a diffic...
Evolution of Payment System In the last decades, payment processing has been organized around the usage of payment plastic cards and POS terminals. In many countries, inserting or rolling a card throu...
After a decade aptly described as the 'golden age of FinTech', last year saw a substantial dip in global FinTech investment (from $238.9bn in 2021 to $164.1bn in 2022). The industry, as one easily can...
Time and again digital transformation initiatives fail. Research by McKinsey shows that 70 percent of complex, large-scale change programs don’t reach their stated goals. Some companies are now frigh...
While the sophistication of chatbot technology has been steadily increasing over the past decade, the release of Large Language Model-based ChatGPT is set to be the harbinger of the next wave of power...
2021 was the year of funding records – global venture capital funding was up 111% year-on-year, with total value hitting $621 billion, according to CBI Insights. Tech companies received funding at 50-...
Using the right credit bureau has never been more important. Aside from the usual need for the best priced credit data – to keep profit margins lean and ensure credit providers can compete – the best ...
In this series we are looking at where financial institutions stumble on the path to building high-performing change organizations, limiting their ability to deliver meaningful strategic transformatio...