FinTech Weekly Magazine
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Surging fraud expenses eat into digital lenders’ bottom linesLenders have long faced down the issue of fraud, but now, digital lenders are now facing even greater challenges. Digital lenders have become an easy target for identity and transaction-related fraud, compared with non-digital lenders, as criminals can now hide behind a mobile or computer screen.
Tuesday, March 27th 2018
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Banking & Fintech: Better TogetherWhile Fintech companies were initially viewed as a banking competitor, the two are finding that there is greater benefit to working together. According to the 2017 World Retail Banking Report, 91 percent of banks and 75 percent of Fintechs responded that they expect to partner with one another in the future.
Saturday, March 24th 2018
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How to stop the subscription economy burstingIn the subscription economy, businesses should give people easier solutions to cancel their subscriptions – as they do when it’s time to sign up.
Wednesday, December 21st 2022
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Changing How We Use Tech Can Change FinanceA change in our approach, and the ways we use technology, can be disruptive to the Financial Service Industry.
Wednesday, March 21st 2018
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How to Ensure Financial Services Industry Employees Can Survive in Todays New Digital DynamicThe past few years have been a technology roller coaster ride for financial services companies. From heightened cybersecurity threats to increased demands from customers on the digital front, the very rules that defined the industry have changed. And 2018 will be no different.
Thursday, March 8th 2018
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Regulation of the crypto market: The darknet of the stock exchange lightens upFrom hype to crash – in light of the most recent exchange rate developments of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple & Co., disillusionment is reigning on the crypto market. Volatile exchange rates, black sheep amongst traders and the learning that trading with crypto currencies is actually not as easy as buying a lottery ticket, have certainly put a damper on the gold rush atmosphere. Pressure is growing on the crypto traders – most of all because of regulations.
Thursday, March 1st 2018
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Bridging Finance & Crypto Via Fintech App DevInnovative fintech apps can bridge cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology with more traditional financial products and services.
Thursday, December 15th 2022
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Blockchain: The good, the bad, and how to tell the differenceBlockchain has been touted as a disruptive technology that can be used to benefit virtually any transaction, ranging from money transmission to supply chain management, to restaurant reservations. With its promise of highly secure, private and instantaneous transactions, blockchain would seem to enhance any transfer or transaction.
Monday, February 26th 2018
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Unified IT Monitoring for Financial Services: Improving the Customer ExperienceFinancial services companies are growing through an intense period of acquisitions and mergers. This has resulted in requiring a parent company to maintain IT infrastructures for several different organizations, each with their own lines of business.
Wednesday, February 21st 2018
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Alternative Investments: A path to transparencyCapital has been flowing into the alternative investment industry over the past few years, with sources projecting that money invested in private funds will reach as much as $20 trillion by 2020. Preqin recently published a study stating that there are as many as 17,000 private funds open for investment.
Monday, February 19th 2018
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How AI Improves Customer Onboarding in FintechOnboarding is pivotal to start clients’ journeys in the best way. Fintech products can use AI to optimize this process.
Monday, December 12th 2022
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Cryptocurrency Accounting Guide: How Do I calculate My Crypto Gains?The increased interest and excitement towards cryptocurrencies has resulted in an influx of new money flowing into the cryptocurrency market. However, entering into the crypto world is extremely intimidating, especially when you’re dealing with a subject matter that is technically complex. With many making a considerable rate or return on their investments, it is vital to understand how we should value our crypto gains (or losses).
Friday, February 16th 2018
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Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg: exploring blockchain’s full potentialIf there is one topic setting tongues wagging in FinTech, it is blockchain. Because of its distributed ledger system, Blockchain makes processes easier, faster and by extension, cheaper. Bitcoin is only one case among the many applications of crypto. Once its potential is fully explored, blockchain could generate much more than digital money, and empower individuals by putting them in full control of their money and transactions.
Wednesday, February 7th 2018
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Friday, February 2nd 2018
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5 Essential Things You Need to Set Up a BusinessRunning a business can be one of the best ways to be financially secure and achieve your goals.
Saturday, November 26th 2022
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Open Banking – Intellectual Property ConsiderationsOn 13 January 2018, the starting pistol was fired for the Open Banking race. Retail banks (and building societies) are now required, with their customers’ consent, to provide access to their customers’ banking data to approved third parties in a standardised, straightforward and secure way. Open Banking has been hailed as a catalyst for the Fintech sector, facilitating innovative new banking apps and services for consumers and small businesses.
Thursday, February 1st 2018
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How big data and AI has revolutionized financial tradingMany banking and finance companies have already taken advantage of big data analytics to simplify the process of personalized offers, targeted cross sales and to improve their customer service. The term big data keeps expanding and today incorporates numerous new meanings, such as Deep Learning, Cluster Analysis, Neuron Networks and Artificial Intelligence.
Wednesday, January 31st 2018
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The role of blockchain in the Open Banking eraPSD2 - the second Payment Services Directive - offers European consumers significant control over the use of their personal financial data. But while they trust their banks with this sensitive data, a recent Accenture study shows that consumers are overwhelmingly reluctant to share their bank details with third-parties. So how can fintech companies generate trust and encourage consumers to sign-up? I believe empowering consumers to manage their own data could be the answer.
Wednesday, January 24th 2018
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Different Types of Personal Loans in SingaporePersonal loans are often used in Singapore to benefit from the many opportunities offered by the country.
Friday, November 18th 2022
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A Cautionary Tale for TokensAs the digital asset community tries to project how the world’s governments and agencies will ultimately regulate the cascade of coins and tokens now being blockchained into existence, we could use a good anecdote. Do we have a relatively recent story that features large quantities of regulatory uncertainty, customer frenzy and start-up obsession? One that might illuminate basic truths that help token investors and issuers navigate the unusual regulatory landscape they find themselves trying to cross? In fact we do. The story of daily fantasy sports companies during the second half of 2015 offers the digital asset community several valuable insights.
Friday, January 19th 2018
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Mobile Payment: NFC, QR Codes, In-app and beyond…‘Mobile payments’ is a broad term. As the ecosystem has developed, various new technologies have emerged to change the way we act and transact in-store.
Wednesday, January 17th 2018
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PSP ecosystem explained and global mapping of key playersAs the PSP segment in the payments value chain is maturing, retail prices for online payments are steadily dropping, while the level of service offered to merchants is only increasing. Consequently, players aim to gain scale and increase capabilities through strategic acquisitions. This report describes the global PSP space today and defines the capabilities offered by the different participants in the ecosystem.
Monday, January 15th 2018
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GreenOnline Wins Hearts & Minds in EuropeThe CEO of GreenOnline talks about the logic behind the company – and how it helps customers.
Wednesday, November 16th 2022
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Navigating Cryptocurrency Regulation: Common Sense in an Uncommon IndustryThe recent, exponential growth of bitcoin, Ether, and other cryptocurrencies has brought cryptocurrencies firmly into the public eye. Some have created crypto-products or tokens to raise funds in a veritable cash grab with little foresight, planning, or disclosure. Others – by the tens and hundreds of thousands – are signing up to purchase crypto-assets. Often these purchasers have no understanding of the underlying technology or the risks involved, proving that, as Mark Twain opined, “common sense is very uncommon.”
Monday, January 15th 2018
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Cryptocurrencies – Does the Next Big Thing have Staying Power?Cryptocurrencies – not just bitcoin, but any of the hundreds of different currencies that have been created using blockchain technology – have caught the imagination of the public. There are, seemingly, daily articles that predict either the demise of all traditional currencies in favor of cryptocurrencies, and just as many articles predicting the demise of cryptocurrencies.
Saturday, January 13th 2018
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