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KYC Utilities - is technology the answer?

KYC Utilities - is technology the answer?


17 Dec 2020

KYC utilities will expedite onboarding and other processes, helping to improve user experience and o...

How to Maximise the Remaining Time Before the Extended SCA Deadline

How to Maximise the Remaining Time Before the Extended SCA Deadline


15 Dec 2020

It has been an extraordinary year for e-commerce, with web traffic reaching a record high in 2020 an...

Shaping the future of payments and securities through responsible innovation

Shaping the future of payments and securities through responsible innovation


14 Dec 2020

For more than 40 years, SWIFT has collaborated with its network to identify industry-wide challenges...

Fintech Salary Survey 2021: A sneak peek

Fintech Salary Survey 2021: A sneak peek

Neill Butcher
11 Dec 2020

Looking to benchmark your salary in payments or fintech? Need to know the 'market rate' for employin...

Brexit: The end of the saga is almost in sight...and now what?

Brexit: The end of the saga is almost in sight...and now what?

Stephen Surpless
10 Dec 2020

Assuming that both parties can agree, the ratification process will not be easy and there will be di...

Reinventing the banking business model for the digital world

Reinventing the banking business model for the digital world

Ben Poole
03 Dec 2020

With rapidly changing consumer spending trends, the rise of e-commerce, and the growth and success o...

Are CBDCs a question without an answer?

Are CBDCs a question without an answer?


02 Dec 2020

The Singapore Fintech Festival takes place next week with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on...

A vision for data driven lending

A vision for data driven lending

Tom Renwick
30 Nov 2020

“The past is a foreign country - they do things differently there" - so runs the infamous first...

The evolving European payments landscape

The evolving European payments landscape

Ben Poole
26 Nov 2020

Transaction speeds are increasing. Faster payments rails and instant transaction policies are being ...

Time to understand identity

Time to understand identity

Andrew Smith
25 Nov 2020

Identity has long been a hot topic, but more recently it has become red hot. There are so many discu...

Strategic advantage lies in the journey, as much as the destination

Strategic advantage lies in the journey, as much as the destination


23 Nov 2020

Covid-19 has exposed the status of banks’ digital transformation strategies. While the steps that ba...

European sovereignty shackled to its payments

European sovereignty shackled to its payments


19 Nov 2020

March 2014: in the midst of the diplomatic crisis following Russia's invasion of Crimea, some Russia...