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Featurespace, the world leader in enterprise-grade fraud and financial crime technology, revealed the data findings of a new report: The State of Fraud and Financial Crime in North America Annual Report 2023.
In 12 months, the UK will be gearing up for a general election, and the themes that will define it are already emerging. While immigration and the NHS remain key battlegrounds between the parties, one area dominates – the economy. A glance at recent IPSOS polling shows the scale of the problem. Sitting first and third as the most important issues facing Britain today according to voters are inflation and the economy, respectively. Reacting to this, politicians are putting pressure on retailers to cut their prices and introduce reductions. In May, we even heard warnings from The UK Chancellor, threatening new laws to set price caps for essential food items.
Yet while cutting prices can lead to short-term relief, it does not provide the long-term solution that retailers and consumers desperately need.
Retailers should be cautious of jumping on the cashless retail bandwagon: the answer lies not in turning cash buyers away, but by automating cash acceptance wherever possible.
Partnerships have enormous power, that should never be underestimated. This is especially true in the financial services sector, which is undergoing a substantial transformation as the ecosystem shifts toward partnerships rather than individual organisations.
Howard Wimpory, KYC Transformation Director, Encompass Corporation, shares about boosting productivity with technology can aid economic recovery in the financial sector.
Mike Hughes, VP of Product Marketing FintechOS shares how high-productivity Fintech infrastructure is being used by pet insurers.
Perry Krug, Director, Shared Services
at Couchbase explains why enterprises must prioritise the customer experience.
By James Lynn, CEO and co-founder, Currensea
HPD Lendscape, a leading secured finance technology vendor, has today announced that Rabobank, the second-largest bank in the Netherlands, has welcomed their first clients to the secured lending solution Lendscape.
insightsoftware, a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, today announced the integration of its market-leading financial and business reporting solution, Jet Reports, with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Financial & Supply Chain Management (F&SCM).
FinGo, a biometric identity authentication solutions provider is introducing FinGoVend, the world’s first retail vending machine where users can now pay and prove their age through a simple scan of their finger.
In this article, Ralf Gladis, CEO, a global payment service provider, Computop looks at the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on the world of payments.
Philipp Buschmann, Co-Founder, and CEO at AAZZUR informs us of the latest in Fintech personalization.
Martin Rehak, CEO of Resistant AI, explains why combining AI and the human touch is the only way to successfully fight financial crime.
Will Marwick, CEO of IFX Payments, looks ahead at the 2022 Fintech predictions and reflections.
Zilch, the London-based unicorn Fintech company, has announced today that it has expanded its partnership with Mastercard.
Security is a big topic for healthcare right now and has been for some years. Johan Sörmling, Managing Director at Encap Security and Head of Mobile Identity at Signicat, believes that healthcare has a great deal to learn from other markets—in particular fintech. He believes it’s important to think of app users, no matter the app, as consumers when considering how to attract and keep people using healthcare apps.
In addition to being the world’s most internationally connected city with a strong tradition of regulating the financial industry, London for a long time has been home to the largest financial institutions, tech companies and universities. Hirbod Assa, Senior Lecturer in Finance and Fintech at Kent Business School, University of Kent, argues how all the aforementioned aspects give London unique characteristics to maintain its world FinTech position. It is also discussed that to this end, the government needs to encourage quicker finance adoption of technology, investment needs to be injected into the industry and regulations need to be rightfully set.
Seshika Fernando, VP and GM of WSO2 BFSI Practice discusses that banks need a combination of the right technology, the right partners and the right kind of leadership commitment to implement a robust digital strategy to build strong adoption that delivered benefits across banking ecosystems.
Will Marwick, CEO of IFX Payments, looks at how companies that had a pre-established international business presence are better prepared for post-Brexit success. He offers some tips on how to help an organization guarantee the best international move.