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Recent holiday shopping season data showed U.S. shoppers spent $16.6 billion dollars using BNPL plans, with BNPL volume increasing 14% year-over-year. A survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New Yor...
Across the UK and Europe, property technology (PropTech) is rapidly gaining momentum, enhancing the way properties are bought, sold, rented, and managed. Yet, there's an untapped potential in these ma...
In 2023, global crypto ownership rose by 34% to 580 million, widely believed to have been driven by the expected approval of a Bitcoin spot exchange traded fund (ETF). Fast forward to day one of tradi...
In a world where Technology has become deeply ingrained in our lives, its ability to bring about change and contribute to the betterment of society goes beyond mere convenience and efficiency. The tru...
We’re on the cusp of a new arms race. That is the description given to the phenomenon involving the world’s largest cloud service providers competing to invest into the largest financial exchanges. L...
The Christmas trees have come down, and the industry is getting its feet back under the table and thinking about what 2024 will bring. I’m very excited about this year because I think the future of f...
Financial inclusion initiatives are transforming the global economic landscape by making financial services accessible to underserved populations. These efforts are about broadening access and empowe
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What is Democratized AI: The democratization of artificial intelligence entails universal access to AI. Put simply, open-source datasets and tools, which were created by prominent corporations , requ...
Small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs, make up 99% of all European companies and are the backbone of the EU economy, as they account for the vast majority of growth in the labor market. Despite tha...
If I could improve just one thing in the payments industry this year, it would be fostering greater financial inclusion through seamless integration and accessibility. Now this might sound broad, but ...
Financial inclusion is providing access to financial services on an equitable and universal basis. Financial inclusion comprises a sequence of processes by which individuals and organizations can acqu...