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Bekhzod Botirov

Bekhzod Botirov Сo-owner and member of Supervisory Board at PayWay

From Reform to ROI: Why Uzbekistan is Gaining Ground as a Top Destination for Global Investors

Author: Bekhzod Botirov, fintech expert, co-owner and member of the PayWay Supervisory Board In recent years, Uzbekistan has emerged as a key destination for international investors in Central Asia. The country’s economy is experiencing rapid growth: in 2024, GDP expanded by 6.5%, reaching $115 billion. The government's ambitious goal is to incr...

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Prakash Bhudia

Prakash Bhudia HOD – Product & Growth at Deriv

Is the U.S. already in a recession? A closer examination

Economic discussions in the United States have increasingly revolved around one pivotal question: Are we already experiencing a recession or merely bracing for a downturn that has yet to emerge fully? Shifting corporate sentiment, considerable market volatility and ongoing trade disputes have all contributed to the conversation. Below is an in-...

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Dmytro Spilka

Dmytro Spilka Director and Founder at Solvid, Coinprompter

Southeast Asian Economies Plan to Out-Innovate Uncertainty as Tariffs Threaten Growth

The disruption caused by tariffs on trade with the United States threatens to adversely impact Southeast Asian economies, particularly the regional juggernaut, China. However, early indications suggest that these challenges are being met with a strong degree of resilience. It seems as though the uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s tarif...

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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.

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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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Research

Survey

US Regulation Survey 2025: Compliance at a Crossroads

Assessing financial industry preparedness in a shifting US regulatory landscape as organisations struggle with deadlines, cost, and technology. In an environment of rapidly evolving regulations, driven by legislative and policy shifts at the federal and state levels, the US regulatory landscape is marked by complexity and uncertainty. Understanding the level of preparedness across industries is crucial for ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and enhancing operational efficiency. This survey was conducted at the beginning of 2025, gathering financial services industry sentiment as the Trump Administration took office and began pivoting on key regulatory elements. With the US financial regulation regime also somewhat in limbo, that uncertainty was – and is – increasingly impacting the views of the 200 organisations surveyed. Analysis of our survey responses provides a comprehensive overview of the state of regulation readiness in the US, differences in reporting obligations, the impacts of automation for compliance, the roles of technology and data, and industry plans for modernisation. We explore: Which regulations will have the biggest impact on US financial services in 2025; Regulatory effects on organisational frameworks, budgets and staffing; How organisations are leveraging technology and partnerships to streamline regulatory compliance.

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Event Report

Sustainable Finance Live – Natural Capital Finance

A Record from the Sustainable Finance Live Conference and Hackathon 2024  On 8 October 2024, Finextra Research and ResponsibleRisk held the annual Sustainable Finance Live hybrid conference and hackathon, in partnership with NayaOne.  The conference took place at Events@ No6 in London, and started off with a welcome from founder of ResponsibleRisk and contributing editor for Finextra, Richard Peers. Peers opened with an introduction outlining the themes and objectives of this year’s event: to understand natural capital risk, pricing, and trade.  The focus areas of the conference were natural capital, agriculture, supply chains, as well as regulation and reporting. The sessions also highlighted highlighting new technologies that are being used to collect nature-related data such as Earth observation and satellite reporting.  Richard Peers, contributing editor at Finextra and founder of ResponsibleRisk, moderated the conference: “What we wanted to do is to put on an event aimed at explaining the landscape of a natural capital transaction, with the associated data providers identified along the way. Ending the process in an asset management trading platform, taking into consideration all the steps that a regulated entity has to undertake, to prove to the financial industry that this can be an asset class, that is as tradable as any other.”  Download a Visual Record of the event below to discover key themes of the event’s panels, keynotes, and hackathon. We cover:  Natural capital trading from field to trade;  How nature financing can be achieved;  The role of data, economic profit, and policy for natural capital;  How to build a sustainable ecosystem using natural value;  Visions and results from the hackathon;  And more. 

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White Paper

Beyond Tomorrow In The Capital Markets

Technology has long been transforming the capital markets industry, but the tides are changing for what is considered success. Now more than ever, firms need to prioritise operational resilience.  Technological advances are indisputably reshaping how firms in the capital markets operate, however, as the reliance on technology grows, so does the impact of glitches and outages when they occur. Take the CrowdStrike global outage, for example, which caused an estimated $1.15BN and $140M in financial losses for the banking and financial sectors respectively.  The consecutive outages expose the fragility of technical infrastructure and underscore a need for better operational resilience across the capital markets. It also reiterates the importance of preparing for the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), implementing uniform operational resilience rules for financial entities throughout Europe, and its equivalents elsewhere.  This Finextra whitepaper, produced in association with CJC, explores:  The challenges in the capital markets industry;  How institutions can address these challenges;  Ensuring future resilience by bridging the skills gap;  Real-world case studies;  And more. 

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FinextraTV

Banking and Fintech; More Partnership than Competition

At one point, as the industry was first evolving in its technological innovation, banks and fintech firms often saw each other solely as competition. In this FinextraTV interview, Sarah Biller, Co-Founder, Mass Fintech Hub and Claire Verville, Head of Ventures & Strategic Partnerships, M&T Bank join the virtual studio to discuss how that has changed. From exploring the history of blossoming partnerships to extolling the benefits of collaboration in the modern era, Biller and Verville narrate the truth of a new interconnected industry of opportunity.

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Long reads

Dominique Dierks

Dominique Dierks Senior Content Manager at Finextra

To Tariff or Not To Tariff: Feeling the shockwaves of a looming trade war

The first three months of President Trump’s second term in the White House have been turbulent to say the least. Most concerning for economists, financial markets, and international trade industries have been the whirlwind of tariffs. The ‘will he, won’t he’ back and forth on announced – and then paused – tariffs have left the global community ree...

Madhvi Sonia

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Trump's Liberation Day and its impact on fintech

Stocks are now in major decline after US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on at least 10% across all countries. Those that have a high trade deficit with the US have been impacted the most; China, for instance, will face a 54% tariff and will prepare countermeasures. According to Trump, Liberation Day on 2 April 2025 was the day the US s...

Hamish Monk

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

What is T+0 settlement?

In February 2025 it was announced that the EU will switch to single-day settlement – otherwise known as ‘T+1 settlement’ – of stock and bond trades in 2027. So what does this mean and why is it important? ‘T+0 settlement’ refers to a same-day settlement in stock markets; T+1 refers to a settlement in the stock market that takes a maxim...