Amidst all the hype about the metaverse, observers are attempting to describe what it means for the banking industry. EuroMoney wrote: “Incumbent banks are already being disrupted by blockchain techno...
For decades, China has been a top priority for American companies looking to expand. This is because the country’s middle class is simply enormous, growing from 3.1% to 50.8% of the country’s total po...
View the high resolution version of this infographic. Buy the poster. The inflation rate in the U.S. has surged, reaching 7% year-over-year in December 2021. This marks the highest level in 40 years. ...
The transition towards a cashless society on the Isle of Man « must not leave people behind », the enterprise minister has said. His department has agreed to monitor the ATM network and to « plug any ...
Since COVID-19 started its spread around the world in 2020, the global economy has been put to the test with supply chain disruptions, price volatility for commodities, challenges in the job market, a...
January was a strange month for fintech deals. As with other tech stocks, the financial sector has taken a tumble over the past month. Companies like Coinbase, PayPal and Mastercard have all seen the ...
Fintech companies have established themselves as viable competitors in the financial-services business, but now they face a new challenge: Some mainstream banks have started to offer fintech-inspired ...
When Diana Styles joined N26 as chief people officer in September 2020, she had a big task ahead of her to improve employee wellbeing at the $9bn German fintech. Just a month before her arrival, the c...
Google’s digital cards might soon enable users to hold bitcoin and spend fiat. The company has formed partnerships with Coinbase and BitPay to enable the functionality. It is still unclear when Google...
The global startup fundraising boom has lifted nearly every sector you can name: Edtech took off during the pandemic, software in general got a lift, and even more risky and long-term wagers like spac...
It’s fair to say that today fintech has become firmly entrenched within society and our economy. I like to say that it’s ‘crossed the chasm’: as founders, we spent the early days explaining to p...
Fintech is about progress. As a concept, it represents the modernisation of an old, archaic industry – making services faster, simpler, easier to use. We often hear of fintech growing at such-and-such...
If you’re under 40 and looking for help managing your finances, there’s a long line of companies eager to sell you something. Most likely, it’ll be a service built to work on your mobile phone. Younge...
Natural language processing (NLP) has been one of the hottest sectors in AI over the past two years. Will the string of big data breakthroughs continue into 2022? We checked in with industry experts t...
According to the US Census Bureau’s survey of 583,000 US companies in 2018, only 2.8% uses machine learning to leverage advantages to their operations. About 8.9% of surveyed use some form of AI such ...