Category : Guest Posts

Banking Guest Posts

Tips to Fight Vender Impersonation Fraud in 2021

John Heyel
by John Heyel0
The dual mandate of the finance and accounting team in my company is to support business growth and help mitigate against risk.  Due to the significant increase in people working remotely because of COVID-19, there has been a massive rise in vendor impersonation fraud. Through May of 2020, the Internet......
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Embedded Finance Explored: How Financial Institutions Can Navigate New Territory

Zil Bareisis
by Zil Bareisis0
There’s growing buzz about embedded finance—with good reason. It is a burgeoning space with the potential to dramatically reshape the way customers engage with financial services. But because varied things get labeled as embedded finance, conversations can get confusing. What is it? What are the examples? How can financial institutions......
Guest Posts Security

Why SHOULD Customers Share Their Data with You?

Toby Evans
by Toby Evans0
The death of the third-party cookie. The” cookiepocalypse.” The cookie has crumbled. It’s the hottest of the hot topics right now: the big move by Google to do away with third-party cookie tracking – not to mention Apple’s privacy changes with iOS 14 – has pulled the rug from under......
Artificial Intelligence Fintech Guest Posts

2021: Back to Business with Fintech Learnings from 2020

Chen Amit
by Chen Amit0
When prognosticating 2021, it’s useful to consider some of the technology and payments forecasts made about 2020. Many predicted technical consolidations, AI, moving processes to  the cloud, and improved strategic positioning for the finance organization. These were pretty safe bets. What was unexpected was the pandemic, which had the impact......
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Covid-19 Spending Habits – Has The Pandemic Caused An Increase In Acquirer Fraud?

Justyna Bialobrzeska
by Justyna Bialobrzeska0
As the Covid-19 virus started to spread around the globe and a sharp economic downturn became apparent in many sectors, acquirers, and the financial institutions who maintain merchant accounts in order to accept card payments, faced a decline in the number of transactions being processed through their systems, and therefore......
Capital Markets Fintech Guest Posts

Three Top Fintech Cyber Security Trends for 2021

Todd Golub
by Todd Golub0
The Fintech cybersecurity market is ever-evolving with new technologies and regulations influencing change. Here are three trends in the market we expect to see in 2021. Financial Services Firms and Exchanges Shift to High-Speed, Full Packet Capture and Analysis to Boost Security One of the first uses of PCAP, or......
Banking Fintech Guest Posts

Four Small Business Lending Predictions for 2021

Jorge Sun
by Jorge Sun0
As we come to the close of a tumultuous year, the fintech industry is looking ahead to new policies and technologies to help power a recovery in 2021. A key part of recovery is focusing on the survival of small businesses, which are looking to lenders and community banks to......
Banking Digital Payments Guest Posts

Partnerships, Access, and Speed will Define Fintech in 2021

Jennifer Tramontana
by Jennifer Tramontana0
The payments and fintech ecosystems have been rapidly converging for years due to greater investments in open banking, stronger partnerships between fintechs and finserv companies, and innovation across the digital payment market. An acceleration of these trends, ignited by the pandemic, will set the tone for fintech in 2021 and......
Banking Guest Posts

A Seismic Fundamental Shift Is Underway in Nigeria’s Digital Banking Sector

Hany Fekry
by Hany Fekry0
Digital Banking is changing the way we do business today. In Nigeria, cash has remained king and financial services have remained stagnant despite decades of efforts to do away with old-fashioned paper money.  Many in the payments industry have been predicting so for years. That digital payments are inevitable for......
Blockchain Business Fintech Guest Posts

Why Application-Layer Security Is The Future Of Fintech

Wias Issa
by Wias Issa0
In the FinTech industry, customer trust comes down to one thing—how well you secure customers’ financial data. Customers won’t touch your product if they hear so much as a whisper that your technology isn’t secure or that their data won’t be safe. According to the Pew Research Center, 70% of......
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