Tag: Financial Services

April 24, 2024

Embedded finance platforms hold the key to ensuring both buyers and sellers feel empowered within online marketplaces. To understand how this can truly be achieved, we reached out to the industry. Finance automation must be adopted Rick Verma, head of […]

January 16, 2024

However, while many firms seek to provide accessibility to basic financial services to the masses, not quite so many have sharpened their focus and risen to the challenge of making financial services more accessible and easier to use for disabled […]

November 29, 2023

This month, Philip takes an in-depth look at GenAI in financial services. I’ve stayed away from writing a ‘state of play’ piece on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) due to the sheer pace of change and my concern that any analytical […]

September 29, 2023

My career has been spent trying to work out how to make complex technology and digital experiences consumable by users. The last three decades have seen rapid advancements in interaction design, graphics, and multimedia capabilities. But while the digital interfaces […]

August 30, 2023

According to Bloomberg citing undisclosed sources, the US private equity company Apollo Global Management, investment firm Sixth Street and the AI fintech Pagaya Technologies are all actively engaged in the bidding process. Bloomberg says Apollo has formed a bidding group […]

June 2, 2023

After launching in November 2022, ChatGPT had gained 100 million users by January of this year, making it the fastest growing and most speedily adopted app yet—it took Instagram more than two years to reach the same kind of numbers, […]

May 10, 2023

Some members of the United States House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee and Agriculture Committee pointed to crypto asset frameworks being employed outside the country when discussing regulatory gaps at home. In a May 10 joint hearing on the future […]

December 27, 2022

The world’s largest investment management firm, Fidelity Investments, has submitted trademark applications in the United States for a variety of Web3 goods and services. These applications cover a marketplace for nonfungible tokens (NFTs), as well as financial investment and cryptocurrency […]

December 27, 2022

While advanced security systems managed to prevent a further £736 million from being taken, it does raise questions about what other preventative measures banks should be putting in place to further protect their customers. When blockchain technology is spoken about, […]

December 7, 2022

Through the acquisition, Tonik aims to augment its lending portfolio and integrate payroll-enabled financial services into its operations. Launched in 2019, TendoPay offers services including virtual cards, prepaid health insurance cards, 0% interest purchasing loans, emergency cash loans, a personal […]

November 30, 2022

Digital transformation is democratizing data across all industries, enabling richer features, greater transparency, and a better customer experience. As new technologies allow fintech and other companies to access legacy systems, Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions have emerged as an important component of […]

November 1, 2022

In the days of cryptocurrency and Apple Pay, many people are more and more comfortable with the intersection of currency and the digital world. Financial institutions are in this transition period, too. It can be nerve-wracking to think about changing […]

October 27, 2022

More nimble, higher-tech rivals are making the economics of garden-variety retail banking “unsustainable” for traditional financial services companies, driving them to focus on specialized digital services for more profitable customers, according to a new study from the consulting firm McKinsey […]

October 19, 2022

Given that blockchain is changing the dynamics of many industries, it’s no surprise that it has become a buzzword in recent years. Blockchain has revolutionized the way we do business in many areas, including healthcare, retail, banking, government, and more. […]

September 26, 2022

Even before the pandemic hit, sectors like retail, gaming or e-healthcare moved quickly to embrace the speed, convenience and experience of digital services – led by technology pioneers like Amazon or Google. Traditionally, conventional banks and financial institutions have encouraged […]

September 12, 2022

Once the acquisition is complete, Renovite will become part of JP Morgan Payments – which provides corporate treasury services, trade finance, card and merchant services. Founded in 2015 and based in Fremont, California, Renovite offers cloud-native software products for payment […]