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Trends in Financial Services

A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.

Paul Marcantonio

Paul Marcantonio Head of UK/Western Europe at Ecommpay

Anti-fraud solutions that can’t detect fraud rings are redundant in 2023

In today’s e-commerce landscape, fraud prevention and detection solutions must include tools such as graph analysis to track data across numerous transactions. Over the last few years, the e-commerce sector has witnessed unprecedented growth. As volumes of digital transactions continue to skyrocket, merchants and payment providers find themselves a...

/payments /crime

Oliver Carson

Oliver Carson Founder and CEO at Universal Partners

Bridging the FX Gap: How Fintechs Are Equipping Banks To Support Global SMEs

When it comes to supporting larger Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) scaling internationally, the established banking sector has been falling behind for some time. Despite the size and reach of traditional banking institutions, they struggle to support important FX aspects like hedging, local accounts abroad and exotic currency payments. C...

/payments /retail

Sameer Pethe

Sameer Pethe Partner at Kearney

The Future of BNPL?

At the end of March, Apple launched Apple Pay Later in the US, its much anticipated buy now, pay later (BNPL) service, which will allow consumers to spread payments of between $50 and $1,000 over six weeks.The programme will rival BNPL incumbents including Klarna, Clearpay and Affirm who have, until now, dominated a market in which payments are ex...

/payments /retail

Luigi Wewege

Luigi Wewege President at Caye International Bank

Insights on Wealth Management and Asset Protection Trends

Success frequently comes with a significant drawback: it can make you a potential lawsuit target! This includes unfounded and frivolous lawsuits that can devastate your financial well-being. That means you must take precautions to keep the assets you've toiled to acquire from being taken unfairly. Asset protection is not about "hiding money&q...

/people /wealth

Yuliya Barabash

Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers

Cappuccino with Crypto. What can you buy with cryptocurrency today?

Cryptocurrencies have come a long way since their inception, and their influence is not limited to the online space anymore. From everyday purchases to extravagant investments, the world of digital currency is rapidly expanding, and the possibilities are limitless. Despite the recent downturn in the crypto market, the range of goods and services t...

/payments /crypto

Retired Member

Retired Member 

Data privacy – the new Normal in Digitization

The raising prominence of Data privacy: As per the market stats published by Statista, the amount of data/information generated, gathered, copied, and consumed is expected to reach 180 zettabytes by 2025! And a majority of the data generated is on customer and customer only! All of this can be used to infer valuable insights and patterns on the cus...

/regulation

Satinder Lala

Satinder Lala Director of Marketing at Capium

Is AI really the future of accountancy?

Is AI really the future of accountancy? Artificial intelligence (AI) has been subject to a great deal of both hype and scepticism throughout its history. It’s a technology that sparks most people’s imagination – or fear – by calling to mind futuristic, sci-fi concepts. In the accounting industry, an ongoing debate surrounds AI’s ability to carr...

/inclusion /predictions

Steve Morgan

Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems

2023 Global Banking Predictions

AI & ML Harnessed in Fight to Build up Customer Financial Resiliency Financial institutions are under intense pressure to look after their customers as economic uncertainty and recession hits people’s lives and livelihoods. What has happened already in the UK in 2022 suggests it may get uncomfortable for some in the industry who do not do enou...

/predictions

Yuliya Barabash

Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers

Firewall To ArtNFT: Another Bubble Or NFT Rebirth?

In 2021, a friend of mine bought an NFT for €1800. Today, it costs €10. The difference is impressive. With the market decline, all token purchases made a year ago lost 80–90% of the margin. The loudest story is connected with Logan Paul, an American YouTube blogger. In 2021, he purchased an NFT called K4M-1 #03 from the Azuki Bumblebee collection....

/crypto /markets

Rajesh Tengshe

Rajesh Tengshe Consultant at TCS

Banking in the Metaverse: Perspectives on Opportunities and Realization

Metaverse is the new buzzword in the world of business. It promises to transform customer engagement and deliver a captivating and immersive experience to users. The metaverse exists at the intersection of the physical and virtual worlds. While the concept of virtual world gained popularity with advent of video games, other industries are quick to...

/retail /predictions

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