Articles
DAOs, Reputation and the Future of Work
How social media, gaming, Github, bootcamps and soon, on-chain activity in decentralized networks, provide forms of reputation that exist outside the framework of the education system
May 2, 2022 • Andrew Beal
A few minutes after publishing last issue on DAOs, I wanted to change something. In my parting thoughts, I wrote that “future college graduates may chose to work for a DAO instead of a company”...
Impact of AI on FinTech
More than 70% of FinTech firms have adopted AI in various ways for their key business functions
April 27, 2022 • Stan Kihu
The FinTech industry has grown tremendously in recent years, and it continues to grow due to emerging markets that entail digital financial services. Statistics show that the global FinTech m...
Truth of payments fintech game: its no longer about acceptance — its about marketing and retention
Evolution of payments today and in near future: tools, services and platforms all point to the numbers game of improving the attribution — and redemption of marketing outreach.
April 26, 2022 • Daniel Gusev
A story where payers and those accepting payments constantly change places as both intermittently lead the evolution of payments: Without going too deep in the backstory of payments (lest we...
How Fintech can help businesses with scaling and compliance
There are two main areas in which Fintech can be applied to support scaling businesses.
April 21, 2022 • Kris Simpson
Although essential, financial services compliance can be difficult for scaling businesses to manage. Without the firepower of larger organisations, which may have a dedicated team overseeing co...
AI-Powered Finance Assistants In the Corporate Sector: Do The Benefits Outweigh The Costs?
a closer look into the current challenges of financial management in the corporate sector and discover how AI-powered finance assistants are aiming to automate success
April 18, 2022 • Rebecca Barnatt-Smith
As we step into a post-Covid corporate landscape, automation and digitalization have become the new focus for entrepreneurs looking to see success. From a surge in remote working to cybersecuri...
Managing risk capability in financial organizations
The ability to understand and control risk allows organizations to be more confident in their business decisions.
April 15, 2022 • Yahya Mohamed Mao
The culture of risk analysis is characterized by the alignment of risk management with the strategy of the organization and the promotion of an integrated approach to risk management. It is a d...
Why are Fintech Investors Ditching BNPL?
With consumer demand slowing down and ethical dilemmas rising, have Fintech investors decided to start leaving BNPL behind?
April 14, 2022 • Samuel Feldman
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), one of the biggest new disruptions in recent financial history, allows customers to purchase items and pay for them in interest-free installments. This new option for ...
The Rise of Tokenized Deposits
As the New York Fed noted in its paper, The Future of Payments Is Not Stablecoins, there is a third way: tokenized deposits.
April 13, 2022 • Marten Nelson
According to Arcane Research’s The Weekly Update, 2021 Summary (the “2021 Summary”), the total market cap of stablecoins grew 500% to reach over $120B in 2021—a rate of growth twice as fast...
Open Finance – the revolution has already started
With high level adoption of Open Banking by financial institutions introducing ground breaking capabilities at pace, what’s next?
April 11, 2022 • Alexi Karalis
New products and services delivered with ease In an era of rapid development where proposition and customer experience is paramount, it’s never been more important to secure the effective ...
Over 1.2 million subscriptions stopped by customers as households feel the squeeze
Streaming services make up nearly half of regular payments stopped since June 2021
April 8, 2022 • Lloyds Banking Group
Over 1.2 million subscription payments have been stopped since summer 2021, as technology puts customers in further control of their spending, according to new data from Lloyds Bank*. Popular ...