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Preparing for Open X – The World Fintech Report 2019 by Capgemini 2

Jun

10

2019

Last week Capgemini released their annual fintech report – World Fintech Report 2019. Capgemini provide a cool Fintech Report 2019 infographic recap, which i have shared below. World Fintech Report 2019 – 5 Key Themes: Capgemini and Esma believe the financial services sector must look beyond the current open banking “phase” and toward a future ...

7 Sizzling SWIFT Cyber Threats YOU Need To Know

Jun

5

2019

A few weeks back SWIFT released a report – ‘Three years on from Bangladesh: tackling the adversaries‘ – detailing SWIFT cyber threats that have emerged in the last few years since the Bangladesh Bank hack. That bank heist was described by the SWIFT CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt “as a watershed moment for the banking industry..”, since ...

The Top Payments News Stories in May 2019

Jun

3

2019

Its been another quiet blogging month from me, sorry about that. I have had some household duties, i.e sorting the garden out, to attend to. It’s pretty much done, and I hope to be back regularly blogging soon. In the meantime check out below the top payment news stories from May 2019: 1. Payments News – ...

Facebook Survey Reveals How You Want to Manage Your Money

May

3

2019

Facebook shared some interesting insights, based on a global customer survey, recently into the customer journey. This post highlights some of the key themes and the UK based infographic. It is worth noting the survey is not extensive, but in terms of the themes it is interesting – do take a look at the interactive ...

The Top Payments News Stories in April 2019

Apr

30

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

Apr

11

2019

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

Apr

1

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

Mar

22

2019

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

Mar

19

2019

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 ...

30 Incredible Years of the World Wide Web

Mar

14

2019

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web! It is incredible to think how much the world has changed in the last 30 years, and how the evolution of the World Wide Web has become so intertwined with our daily lives. The Verge have an interesting story about their favourite websites from the ...