London set to remain a key financial centre

The UK, particularly London, benefits from a vibrant and competitive financial services industry. It’s a validation of the way the country has adopted technology quickly while transforming the ...

The Threat Of Central Bank Digital Currency To Digital Payment Service Providers

Long before most of the Central Banks in the world started to mull on creating their own digital currency, I wrote about the concept of "The Smart Digital Programmable Money". Later i...

7 Ways APIs Are Revolutionizing KYC & AML

Anyone working in a compliance role in financial services will appreciate the critical part that software plays in effective onboarding, due diligence and anti-money laundering investigations. ...

Fintech, Blockchain & transparency: the anti‐corruption's "Trust System" for Public & Private Procurement. [Part 1‐2]

Bad dealing and corruption have its roots since the Greeks and Romans times and represent a negative value no longer attributable only to social and cultural factors. Nowadays, it's also ...

The onboarding conundrum – a poor experience for business customers and banks

The onboarding process for opening corporate accounts at banks is littered with friction points. But it’s not just the customers who are suffering, it’s also the banks themselves. It is eviden...

UPI and Face-off of Giants to dominate Payments in India

India recorded Rs. 1,378 trillion or US$19 trillion (@1USD=Rs.72.8) digital transfers in the 12 month period from December 2019 to November 2020. Mobile app-based payments represented around ...