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Digital Fintech Guest Posts

The Top Three Reasons People Abandon Online Transactions

Chris Fletcher
Online transactions have exploded in the past year, and despite the impetus of the pandemic, we believe the convenience and preference for digital is here to stay. Businesses need to shift away from reacting to digital as an independent channel and start proactively managing their digital customers throughout the transaction. ......
Analytics Guest Posts

The UK at Forefront of FX Management Change

Richard Eaddy
The UK is front and center in a global increase in foreign exchange / FX management hedging as both Brexit and Covid have shaken the pot. The once steady and reliable Pound is increasingly volatile.  Add to this, more UK companies needing to source both suppliers and customers from ‘offshore’......
Banking Guest Posts

Mobile Money and the Unbanked: How Mobile Payments Can Support Financial Inclusion in Emerging Markets

Brad Hyett
The shift to a cashless society was already underway before the pandemic hit. Nevertheless, the COVID-19 has accelerated years’ worth of digital transformation within the space of a few short months. From contactless spending to the rise of e-wallets, it’s an exciting time for consumers as digital innovation offers easier......
Digital Digital Payments Guest Posts

The Digital, Contactless Payment Trend Will Push the Envelope on Payroll

Andrew Garner
The drive to digital is negatively impacting an already financially stressed segment of the workforce The COVID-19 pandemic has led restaurants, grocery stores, retailers and more to enable patrons to transact in digital, contactless Payment. At the same time, 14.1 millionU.S. adults are still unbanked, which means they generally may......
Cryptocurrency Guest Posts

Cryptocurrency No Longer Seems Like a Speculative Toy – Expect a New Rally This Summer

Victor Argnov
Cryptocurrency no longer seems like a speculative toy that you just need to profitably resell and forget. Seeing that the bears are unable to bring down the course to $20,000- $25,000, “hunters for cheapness” are increasingly buying BTC at levels of the order of $30,000. Having made such purchases, they become......
Banking Guest Posts

A Purpose-Driven Banking For The Post Pandemic World

Sanat Rao
The COVID-19 pandemic has made a profound impact on people and industry worldwide. In the case of banks, in addition to managing their own businesses, banks have had to assume a social responsibility to help customers and communities get through the crisis. Be it transmitting massive government relief packages, deferring......
Banking Guest Posts

Tips to Fight Vender Impersonation Fraud in 2021

John Heyel
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......
Analytics Fintech Primers Guest Posts

Embedded Finance Explored: How Financial Institutions Can Navigate New Territory

Zil Bareisis
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
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
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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