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Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers
In 2021, a friend of mine bought an NFT for €1800. Today, it costs €10. The difference is impressive. With the market decline, all token purchases made a year ago lost 80–90% of the margin. The loudest story is connected with Logan Paul, an American YouTube blogger. In 2021, he purchased an NFT called K4M-1 #03 from the Azuki Bumblebee collection....
06 December 2022 /crypto /markets
Rajesh Tengshe Consultant at TCS
Metaverse is the new buzzword in the world of business. It promises to transform customer engagement and deliver a captivating and immersive experience to users. The metaverse exists at the intersection of the physical and virtual worlds. While the concept of virtual world gained popularity with advent of video games, other industries are quick to...
05 December 2022 /retail /predictions
Sergio Barbosa CIO of Global Kinetic, and CEO of FutureBank. at Global Kinetic and FutureBank
Businesses are losing billions due to poor quality software. And, as the economy tightens and skills remain scarce, this is likely to get worse, forcing them to pay to fix avoidable problems and resulting in stalled growth. According to the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ), poor software quality cost US organisations $2.08...
29 November 2022 /devops /predictions
Retired Member
Rising inflation across the US, UK and the Eurozone is creating massive pressures across global markets. We’re seeing a reduction in the breadth of credit products, like mortgages, as they become more unaffordable, which leads to a reduction in volume and profitability as net interest margins are squeezed. Defaults are increasing – and will continu...
23 November 2022 /markets
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
eTRADE eMBRACEING eCOMMERCE Trade, acquiring things we need and want, is the oldest profession known to man. Now I know what everyone thinks of as the oldest profession, but that would not be possible without trade. Over many centuries trade has evolved and adapted to our changing world. Trade is still alive in all its forms. From barter to bargai...
24 October 2022 /payments /wholesale
Justin Van Til Head of Strategy & Marketing at QUODD
The inflationary environment is hitting all corners of the economy. Yes, even financial services companies. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the cost of market data. The challenge for financial institutions – and by extension, their wealth management servicing platforms – is that this information is not a discretionary purchase that th...
13 October 2022 /wealth /predictions
Gilbert Verdian Founder and CEO at Quant
New rules, like the UK’s Financial Services and Markets Bill and the EU’s Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), should be welcomed, argues Quant’s Founder and CEO, Gilbert Verdian. Republished with the permission of Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence. Over the last five years, investment in cryptocurrency increased from $100 billion to a market cap...
11 October 2022 /regulation /crypto
Koen Vanpraet CEO EMEA at Moneycorp, CEO EMEA
From the very first ATM in the 1960s to the rise of smartphones leading to mobile banking in the 2000s, and now in the booming digital era with super apps and fintechs, the financial industry has evolved to improve the customer experience. While customers may choose a financial product or service for its function and features, user experience is w...
03 October 2022 /payments /people
Crypto market is going through wild changes, and record drawdown of key coins during the last five months has made people nervous. However, the current decline is a natural and, in my opinion, temporal event. Vitalik Buterin proclaimed the beginning of the crypto winter in February 2022. In his interview for Bloomberg, he said that the stagnatio
17 August 2022 /crypto /markets
Omkar Nisal Managing Director UK & Ireland at Wipro Ltd
Last year reports of cybersecurity incidents targeting UK financial services providers skyrocketed by more than half in comparison with previous year and the trend continues this year, at even faster pace, fuelled with Global events. While financial institutions are some of the best protected with ‘industry leading’ Cyber defence and response c
16 August 2022 /security /cloud
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