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Robinhood - Conflict of interest in trading

The Robinhood case conclusions

March 2, 2021 • Konstantin Rabin

Some of you might have heard about the drama which was going around GameStop lately those several weeks. Numerous parties were involved in financial manipulation which was initially started fro...

World’s Leading Neobanks

Top ten neobank in 2021

Feb. 26, 2021 • Yulia Barabash

The neobanking wave is sweeping all countries and continents, from the EMEA to South America. The term coined in 2017 means a new type of financial institution offering state-of-the-art, quick ...

London set to remain a key financial centre

Opinion from Fujitsu’s CTO, Financial Services

Feb. 23, 2021 • Ian Bradbury

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

Exploring the benefit of Central Bank in digital payments

Feb. 22, 2021 • Himanshu Kolhekar

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

Feb. 17, 2021 • Luke Hinchliffe

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]

How technology can be a solution to corruption in public and private procurement

Feb. 15, 2021 • Enrico Molinari

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

Overview of the frictions of the onboarding process

Feb. 11, 2021 • Luke Hinchliffe

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

An in-depth overview of the growth of app-based payments

Feb. 10, 2021 • Sam Ghosh

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 ...

DevOps Success Stories in the Financial Services Industry

DevOps success stories in financial companies

Feb. 9, 2021 • Pavan Belagatti

DevOps is making its impact on almost every software powered company these days, and that being said, when it came to companies in the finance domain, they were perhaps the slowest to embrace D...

Top Digital and Fintech Supportive Countries

A selection of fintech-friendly countries

Feb. 8, 2021 • Yulia Barabash

What are the prerequisites for the Fintech industry to flourish in any given country? I would certainly name an adapted legislative framework, the so-called “regtech”, the economic environment ...