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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......
Banking Fintech Guest Posts

2021: The Year of the Digital Payments Revolution

Jennifer Worley
by Jennifer Worley0
The proliferation of digital, contactless payments will continue; the newest fintech innovation will be a refresh of an industry mainstay; and more Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the payments industry has changed rapidly, in response to the evolving needs of consumers, businesses and the financial services industry. The biggest evolution has......
Banking Fintech Guest Posts

How to Build Modern Customer Service That Matches the Growing Expectations of Banking Customers? 

Aakash Shah
by Aakash Shah0
Satisfying Banking Customers’ Expectations for Modern Customer Service While it is true that customers have ever-growing expectations about the way they like to bank, we should note that the basics of what’s important to customers have not changed in decades. Customers will never ask for a service to be more......
Economy Guest Posts

Pandemic Paradox: Why Digital Transformation Efforts Are Undermined by an Insufficient Focus On Process

Mark Elkin
by Mark Elkin0
The pandemic accelerated digital transformation, made customer experience a greater differentiator, and added complexity to an already process-heavy, regulated, and risk-averse industry. While banks know they need to step up their digital transformation efforts, they’re focusing on the wrong strategies and tactics to achieve them. First, to define and document......
Blockchain Guest Posts

How Blockchain and DeFi are Impacting Fintech

Lucy Mitchell
by Lucy Mitchell0
With Bitcoin having climbed the ladder in the tail end of 2020, there are a lot of questions about crypto and blockchain’s refusal to stand down from the financial markets. If the past five years have told us anything, it’s that there’s little chance that blockchain and decentralised finance or......
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