Stay up-to-date on all the all the latest FinTech news and information from around the world in the BFC FinTech Monitor. Around the World Visa has announced the launch of its AI-powered …
Read More »Digitization and Cashlessness: 2 Financial Market Inevitabilities
While market dynamics and financial infrastructure vary greatly by country and region, it is clear that changes across financial markets have 2 commonalities: digitization and cashlessness. Both of these inevitabilities …
Read More »Top 5 Mobile Financial Institutions Operating in Europe
Mobile-only financial institutions are revolutionizing personal banking, offering faster, cheaper, more secure and easier-to-use products and services via a simple Android or iOS app. Not to be confused with the …
Read More »Integrating Front-to-Back, Digitized Consumer Value Streams
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed consumers into using digital channels at a pace never imagined, with online banking use increasing 23% and mobile banking use increasing 30% during the pandemic. These …
Read More »BFC FinTech Monitor 25th January – 1st February
Stay up-to-date on all the all the latest FinTech news and information from around the world in the BFC FinTech Monitor. Around the World Analysts at CB Insights have prepared a report …
Read More »4 Digital Payment Trends for 2021
BPC Banking Technologies, a company that offers smart digital solutions and works with banking institutions and neobanks, has analyzed global markets and determined that the following 4 trends will define …
Read More »Are Central Bank Digital Currencies a Go Around the World?
he Bank for International Settlements (BIS) recently conducted a study on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), finding that 86% of central banks worldwide are exploring the benefits and drawbacks of …
Read More »The Evolution of Credit Scoring
Traditional financial institutions have worked tirelessly to develop their own unique methodologies for assessing the creditworthiness of clients, typically relying on data collected from private credit bureaus. While the ultimate …
Read More »BFC FinTech Monitor 18th – 26th January
Stay up-to-date on all the all the latest FinTech news and information from around the world in the BFC FinTech Monitor. Around the World Organizers of the World Economic Forum are devoting …
Read More »New Report Highlights Consumer Trends in Global Retail Banking
Consumer-oriented financial institutions are traditionally known for having more personal relationships with their customers due to the intimacy of personal finances. But in 2020, many such financial institutions have found …
Read More »Central Banks’ Rising Interest in Blockchain Technology
MINDSMITH, a technology think tank, recently carried out a semantic analysis of publications from 191 central banks around the world. Interestingly, they found that 74% of the world’s central banks …
Read More »The 2 Biggest AI Trends Right Now
Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to deliver on its potential, with its benefits for businesses really shining amid the pandemic. For example, chatbots have helped answer a flood of pandemic-related …
Read More »BFC FinTech Monitor 1st – 18th January
Stay up-to-date on all the all the latest FinTech news and information from around the world in the BFC FinTech Monitor. Around the World Mastercard has launched a cybersecurity center …
Read More »A Glimpse of 2025
The world 0f 2025 will be characterized by a very different landscape from the one we lived in just a few short years ago. While this will include some positive …
Read More »2021 Predictions
2020 was a difficult year. At the same time, it did facilitate extraordinary progress in digital transformation. Against this backdrop, here are some of the biggest predictions for 2021: Companies …
Read More »The Importance of FinTechs in Post-Pandemic World
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we interact and conduct business. And, although many FinTechs initially struggled with the onset of COVID-19 (due to increasingly limited access to …
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