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Oleg Boiko

Oleg Boiko Founder at Finstar Financial Group

Fintech Startups in Emerging Markets: Opportunities and Risks

Launching a fintech business in a new region presents both opportunities and significant risks. Emerging markets demand financial products, but ambition alone is not enough. How can one choose the right country and avoid failure? Where’s the Fintech Boom happening? Developing countries with rapidly growing GDPs are attracting investors’ attention.

/inclusion /markets Financial Inclusion

Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson Technical Product Marketing at Quantexa

The Future of Contextual Risk Simulations and Scenarios

Simulations are important. It was ever thus since the dawn of computing, but they have become even more important in AI-infused complex business environments. Simulations are core to any organization’s toolkit for making optimal decisions. Combining simulations with domain models (ontologies) rooted in an organization’s platform, model and data ar...

/ai /regulation Financial Risk Management

Alex Kreger

Alex Kreger Founder & CEO at UXDA

New Battle Field: Win Banking Race on the Client's Smartphone

Let’s cut to the chase. Financial institutions have spent decades obsessing over branches, brand identity, and service fees, believing those were the competitive battlefields. But in 2025, that war is being waged on a device that fits in your back pocket—the touchscreen smartphone. If a mobile banking app feels generic, devoid of real innovation, ...

/retail /predictions Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Trust is the foundation for AI-agents

By now it is clear - not only to the ChatGPTs I have asked (and posted here) - but also to most of us - that the identity building credentials in general purpose organisational wallets are a must-have when employing AI-agents. The bicycle made for two (personal identity used at work and organisation's wallet) can then safely be equipped with an AI...

/ai /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Devendra Singh Parmar

Devendra Singh Parmar Independent Researcher

Banking 2030: The Role of Autonomous AI Agents in Fraud and Risk

As the financial services industry continues to undergo rapid digital transformation, the landscape of banking is set to look dramatically different by 2030. One of the most pivotal forces shaping this evolution is the emergence of autonomous AI agents—intelligent systems capable of operating independently to solve complex problems, adapt to new en...

/ai /crime Banking

Rolands Selakovs

Rolands Selakovs Founder at avoided.io

Visa's New VAMP Program Raises the Bar for Merchants: Here's What You Need to Do to Stay Compliant

With Visa's VAMP program introducing stricter compliance measures, are you prepared to navigate these changes and safeguard your business? Introduction to VAMP Visa's Acquirer Monitoring Program (VAMP) is designed to uphold the integrity of the payment ecosystem by consolidating risk monitoring efforts. Effective April 1, 2025, VAMP will integrate...

/payments /regulation Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

Steve Marshall

Steve Marshall Director of Advisory Services, at FinScan

Tackling Financial Crime at Speed: How to Adapt to a Faster, More Complex Payments World

Demand for digital payments continues to hit new heights, sparking a wave of payment innovation to meet demand. Meanwhile, the shift to real-time payments means more transactions are settled faster than ever. This new payments landscape can deliver enormous benefits but also opens the door to new financial crime (FinCrime) risks. Regulated instit...

/payments /crime

Shailendra Prajapati

Shailendra Prajapati Associate AI Engineer at Compunnel Inc.

Revolutionizing Finance: How AI Agents Are Transforming Financial Reporting and Compliance

​Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents have rapidly evolved from conceptual innovations to integral components within the financial services sector. By 2025, these intelligent systems will not merely enhance operational efficiency but fundamentally redefine financial analysis, reporting, and compliance methodologies. This article explores the evolut...

/ai /inclusion Artificial Intelligence

Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

JPY at a crossroads: How tariffs and policy shifts could reshape Forex

The Japanese yen is once again in the spotlight, caught in a storm of trade tensions and monetary policy uncertainty. With the global economy teetering on the edge of major shifts, forex traders are on high alert. The stakes are high-escalating trade policies could trigger massive market volatility and create unique trading opportunities. Let’s di...

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Samuel Crompton

Samuel Crompton Associate Partner (Banking, Resilience and AI) at IBM

The Growing Interest in AIOps: ML and Generative AI Use Cases

The hype surrounding generative AI is fuelling a wave of interest in AIOps, with a recent Kyndryl-IDC study revealing that 63% of companies plan to increase spending on automation and AIOps over the next two years, even as overall IT budgets remain flat or decline. While AIOps has traditionally leveraged machine learning (ML) for insights and au...

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