New analyses are showing that the staff of major banks and some of the world’s largest tech giants are increasingly pursuing opportunities with fintech startups. This includes bankers, engineers, data …
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BIS Features CBDCs as the Center of a Future Monetary System
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has drawn up a blueprint for a future monetary system that is grounded in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), noting in its Annual Economic …
Read More »BFC FinTech Monitor (22nd April — 20th May)
Stay up-to-date on all the latest FinTech news and information from around the world in the BFC FinTech Monitor. Around the World #Reports and Studies According to a new Juniper Research …
Read More »EC to Launch Fintech Challenge for Ukraine Initiative
The European Commission (EC) is launching the Fintech Challenge for Ukraine initiative, which will be an international coding competition that will take place in June 2022 in the format of …
Read More »Is a Fintech Crash Looming?
Recent events are giving cause for fintechs to worry. In particular, there are concerns regarding investment cooldowns, large-scale layoffs and plummeting stock value following the very public implosion of the …
Read More »10 Trends Poised to Shape Banking in 2022
In 2021, many financial institutions became much more proactive in questioning long-held assumptions about the banking sector. In doing so, they discovered that transformation can be a quicker and more …
Read More »Cybersecurity Review of 2021 and Expected Challenges for 2022 (Infographic)
Experts from Positive Technologies have identified the main cybersecurity trends from 2021 as well as forecast the most relevant cyber security threats for 2022. Take a look inside this revealing …
Read More »Global Insurtech Market Estimated to Grow to USD 10.7 Billion in 2027
A recent study conducted by BlueWeave Consulting has shown that the global insurtech market was worth USD 5.3 billion in 2020. The study also revealed that the global insurtech market …
Read More »Financial Services Industry Struggling with Rapid Rate of Digital Transformation
A survey of 300 technology and IT executives across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region has found that financial service firms are struggling to keep up with the unprecedented …
Read More »Key Findings of Dentons’ AI Survey
Dentons has conducted a survey of global business leaders on their organizations’ use of artificial intelligence (AI). The results of the survey reveal that companies around the world recognize the …
Read More »Digital Banking Trends for 2022
Digital banking has really taken off in the last few years. In a crowded marketplace, the key to success lies in increasing lifetime customer values by moving beyond the role …
Read More »7 Payment Predictions for 2022
The way that we pay for goods and services seems to be ever-changing, with new technologies leading to new innovations in how to transfer payments. This will no doubt continue …
Read More »What’s Holding Blockchain Back?
Though blockchain has many advantages, it still has a lot of growing pains to go through before its full potential can be unlocked. Here are a few of the main …
Read More »McKinsey Report Highlights “Inevitable Changes” from CBDC Adoption
On the first day of the Sibos 2021 online conference, McKinsey released it annual Global Payments Report. Overall, the report outlined a positive (albeit somewhat unbalanced) forecast for post-COVID financial …
Read More »Digital Development in the CIS
Economists often say that the financial infrastructure is the circulatory system of any economy. When thinking about economies on a supranational level however, things quickly become more complex. As the …
Read More »The Big Business of Deep Tech
In recent years, an increasing number of European corporations in non-technology sectors are investing in and/or forming partnerships with startups and smaller companies engaged in developing solutions based on emerging …
Read More »The Importance of FinTech in Central Asia
Central Asia has enormous FinTech potential as access to mobile communication devices and the internet continue to increase, especially with the rising popularity of digital payments, better government support initiatives …
Read More »A New Age of Digital Assets: Deloitte’s 2021 Global Blockchain Survey
Deloitte has published the results of their 2021 Global Blockchain Survey, following up on the 2020 edition. The survey, conducted in March and April 2021, polled a sample of 1,280 …
Read More »Crypto Asset Management Market to Reach USD 9 Billion by 2030
Allied Market Research recently conducted fascinating new research into crypto asset management. The research suggests that the crypto asset management market size, which was just USD 0.67 billion in 2020, …
Read More »Interest in CBDCs Growing Among Consumers Globally
New research from leading European deep tech company Guardtime shows that consumers worldwide are increasingly receptive to the launch of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The research, conducted across 10 …
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