DeFi is a term that is becoming increasingly common for the concept of upending the traditional finance. But how does DeFi work, and what’s next for an industry that has …

In the last decade, big techs have moved increasingly toward providing financial services and have been particularly active in offering credit products and services to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) …

Uzbekistan’s technology sector has been experiencing a boom in 2022, with thousands of IT specialists and major technology companies relocating to Tashkent. Moreover, fintech services in the country are becoming …

Despite a year filled with the turmoil caused by interest rate hikes, Russia’s war on Ukraine and inflation, four innovative fintechs focused on investing have managed by sign up millions …

An open and decentralized metaverse, which is likely to become a reality at some point in the future, implies some way of owning and transacting using digital objects that are …

Domestic digital payment usage surged during the pandemic, and now customers are increasingly demanding a similar revolution in cross-border payments. At the center of this is the Swift network, which …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …