The Top Payments News Stories in April 2019

Let me start off by apologising for laying low and hardly posting in April 2019. I see a lot of folks visiting the blog and sharing posts, this motivates me and i truly appreciate your support. I look forward to sharing stuff that i have learnt about with you in May. In the meantime, this ...

AI Revolution in 1 Insanely Informative Infographic

AI Revolution in 1 Insanely Informative Infographic
The folks at Techjury created a hugely popular AI Revolution infographic at the beginning of the year. The Techjury article provides some insightful AI statistics, but it is the infographic that caught my eye. Following are a couple of key AI Revolution themes – AI Timeline provides a brief history of AI from the Turing Test, space ...

The Top Payments News Stories in March 2019

Plenty of payments news stories in March 2019 – from Apple hitting the headlines last month with Apple Card, FIS’s purchase of WorldPay through to the Money20/20 conference in Singapore. Check out below the top payment news stories from March 2019: 1. Payments News – Cyber Security United Nations Security Council report states North Korea is ...

5 Tasty Tweets To Recap Money20/20 Asia in Sinagpore 1

I spent the evening catching up on what has been been happening at the Money20/20 Asia 2019 conference in Singapore. There were some heavyweight fintech folks there, so the agenda was jam packed and by the looks of it pretty interesting. I reckon the following 5 tweets are a good way to wet your appetite, ...

19 Phenomenal Fintech in 2018 Insights by KPMG

19 Phenomenal Fintech in 2018 Insights by KPMG
KPMG through their various Pulse of Fintech reports nicely capture, by region and globally, the state of fintech. Sometimes it is easy to get lost in all of the facts and figures – the intention of this post is to summarise some interesting Fintech in 2018 insights. For full details, take a read of Pulse of ...

The Top Payments News Stories in February 2019

I took a bit of time off in February and when i was around was maxed out, so didn’t get a chance to blog. So this recap of the top payments news stories in February was useful for me to see which payments news stories were hitting the headlines in February. Anyway, I’m back and ...

The Top Payments News Stories in January 2019

Well, January went by pretty quickly! Lots of payments news stories unravelling at the beginning of 2019. Check out below the top payment news stories that caught my eye in January 2019: 1. Payments News – Cyber Security Contactless card fraud in the UK almost doubles in 2018 Redbanc, the Chilean interbank network, is tricked into ...

The Most Fabulous Fintech Trends and Predictions for 2019

The Most Fabulous Fintech Trends and Predictions for 2019
At this time of the year there are many articles and reports outlining fintech predictions and fintech trends for 2019. So in this post, i thought i would share some of the best articles and provide a quick overview of the highlighted fintech trends and predictions. Please refer to the links for full details and ...

Happy Birthday Open Banking, Happy Birthday To You!!

Happy Birthday Open Banking, Happy Birthday To You!!
Open Banking in the UK is a year old! To celebrate the anniversary the folks at Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) have created a one year anniversary infographic (see below), capturing the key milestones month by month. Some noteworthy Open Banking info from the Open Banking website: Open Banking Ltd was set up by the UK Competition & ...

The Difference Between Ripple and SWIFT Cross Border Payments 1

The Difference Between Ripple and SWIFT Cross Border Payments
Most commentators are not talking about the difference between Ripple and SWIFT, rather framing it as a battle between the two companies – Ripple versus SWIFT. I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading into the two companies and in this post share with you some of the best resources describing the difference between Ripple ...