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Fintech discussions and conversations around the development of fintech.
Mergers and acquisitions hold promise for owners and investors of combinatorial synergies to reduce costs, increase profit, extend market and product coverage, as well as accelerate innovation. 2020 h...
Over the last few years, the practice of options trading has grown substantially. This growth has coincided with a series of unpredictable political and social events, which have caused high levels of...
Fintech has been a major factor on the financial market for a while now, and it’s becoming quite hard to ignore its presence and wide sweeping effects. It doesn’t just exist in a vacuum though – there...
Last year, Thales announced the latest version of its payShield product family, the 10K. Since MYHSM’s inception we’ve been using the Thales 9000 for some of our services and were aware that a new mod...
Cryptocurrencies have been around for a while now, and we’re well past the point where they were considered a temporary, passing gimmick. At this stage, many people agree that cryptocurrencies are the...
Today, fintech firms and digital banks have become major disruptors of banking services and have transformed the traditional way of banking and payments that have been practised for years. Naming the ...
The gig economy is exploding these days, especially in the wake of the global virus outbreak. According to the Bureau of Labor projections, the portion of gig economy workers will increase to 43% in ...
The majority of financial institutions have or are developing a cloud strategy, and most are already making some use of the cloud. There are a number of reasons why the cloud is an attractive alternat...
Over recent years, unpredictable political and social events have given way to high levels of volatility in the foreign exchange (FX) market. From Brexit to the coronavirus pandemic, the past four yea...
770 words, 3 minute read The Wirecard debacle has hit the headlines with a vengeance, begging the question: flawed regulation or flawed Fintech models? On first appearance, it feels like that there is...
Acceleration of digitalization COVID-19 has led to a dramatic uptake of digital products and services. This has caused a shift in priorities for many financial institutions to ensure they stay relevan...
The SME segment is the backbone of the economy. According to the Federation of Small Businesses there were 5.8 million small businesses at the start of 2019 and SMEs accounted for 99.9 per cent of th...