Affirm’s IPO is a wake-up call for banks
Affirm is placing pressure squarely on banks and fintechs to challenge its BNPL market share.
Worldwide
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 12 February 2021
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Not noise
Before obsessively pressing the send button: pause, rewind.
New direction, same destination for ISO 20022
Despite the extra time, there is little scope for market participants to relax.
Webinar: How to stop massive mobile banking fraud with app security and risk-based authentication
Approaches to eliminate the impact of fraud threats and strategies to protect mobile device users.
Fintech funding deals globally 1-7 February 2021
Featuring Stash, Built, LeaseLock, Valon Mortgage, and Metromile.
How to optimise your digital account opening process
If banks want to start 2021 on the right foot, they can start with these five steps.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 05 February 2021
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
What the Fintech? | S.2 Episode 3 | Israel’s mobile lending tech scene
Featuring Shlomi Turgeman, founder and CEO of BTB Israel.
This “new normal” looks pretty familiar to me
How about we choose a new normal, the one that fixes the fundamental ways of working, not just the tool we use.
Video: Remote onboarding – how banks are evolving and changing the game
Featuring Jumio’s Dean Nicolls, Fintrail’s Robert Evans, and banking consultant Neil O’Brien.
The one big thing missing from modern digital banking
Rethinking the data layer is a key to genuine personalisation in fintech.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 29 January 2021
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
FinTech Futures Jobs: five ways to stay positive while searching for your dream job
Positivity is the key to making the most out of applications, interviews and new roles.
Why the financial industry needs Redis Enterprise
Use cases in risk modelling, apps for banking and brokerage, and solutions for buy-side institutions.
Benjy, the Carolinas most famous fintech dog
This is the story of Benjy. It’s part comedy, part tragedy, part buddy movie.
What the Fintech? | S.2 Episode 2 | Back office processing for real-time payments
Featuring special guest Jack Baldwin, CEO at financial software provider BHMI, and everyone’s favourite Fintech Jail.
Rapyd raises $300m in Series D, plans more acquisitions
It will double the engineering and product teams and expand the “self-service” element of the platform.
Working amid COVID-19: why the cloud is the silver lining
How COVID-19 has accelerated the transition to the cloud.
FinTech Futures Jobs: five awesome fintech companies founded by women
Featuring Aya Payments, Modularbank, First Boulevard, GoHenry, and Alinea Invest.
Ten trends set to influence the payments industry
The financial services and payments sectors have a bright future, should these trends continue to develop.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 22 January 2021
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Three new security strategies for financial services
Continuous compliance remains a challenge because many organisations lack contextual data.
A thing apart
Teamwork, trust, and support come from a place of pure emotion.
Technology lies at the heart of the ethical banking revolution
We have a collective opportunity to lift our communities out of this dire situation.
Lessons from The Boring Company
Perfecting the art of boring requires some rare skills.
CME Group and IHS Markit create post trade joint venture
A handful of CME’s systems will combine with IHS’ MarkitServ.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 15 January 2021
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Fostering a growth mindset is key to getting through challenging times
Mastering an ability to deal with tough times will strike a path towards growth.
My mother was right about everything
What good are the choices, if you don’t act?
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 08 January 2021
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Standard Chartered goes live on Cobalt brokerage platform
Major bank signed up to Cobalt’s network last year.
Digitisation answers the quest for risk mitigation in global trade
These concerns have been heightened by a series of fraud allegations relating to commodity transactions.
Webinar: Deep dive on ServiceNow’s purpose built product for finserv operations
How to improve customer and employee experiences. Featuring a demo of The Now Platform from ServiceNow.
Lock up your innovation department
Perfect the art of incremental business improvements in the cheapest and most efficient ways, before the competition.
Fintech funding deals globally 28 Dec 2020-3 Jan 2021
Featuring Mission Lane, Narmi, Finja, CarPay, and ZipLoan.
Six trends that will change the crypto world in 2021
Which coins will rise in price and which ones will fall?
Invincible TikTok: why video services are exciting and daunting at the same time
The ethical side of using AI video is becoming an increasingly acute problem today.
Bitcoin soars to record $34,000, but dips $5,000 in 24 hours
Bitcoin hit lows of around $18,700 in early December.
Embedded insurance: a $3tn market opportunity, that could also help close the protection gap
All players should look carefully at this space and define strategies of “where to play” and “how to win”.
