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What could keep Dubai from becoming a cryptocurrency capital?
Dubai must tackle three major challenges to ensure its future as a global cryptocurrency hotbed: the risk of fraud, talent shortages and international competition.
Cover Genius bags $70m Series D amidst insurtech investment drop
Money seems to be drying out in the insurtech industry after the Covid-19 boom.
Klarna rival Tymit bags £23m round as BNPL industry keeps struggling
Late fees and a white label credit card are two of the things that make Tymit stand out in the increasingly crowded buy-now-pay-later market.
What fintech experts hate that you get wrong about embedded finance
Embedded finance is one of the most promising areas of fintech, but experts are tired of people getting things wrong about it.
Is this the end of buy-now-pay-later?
Analysts warn that the buy-now-pay-later industry only has a small window of time to save itself.
“Shoot now, pay later”: Fintech has become the latest gun control battleground
Fintech firms have found themselves at the centre of the US gun control debate.
Klarna CEO bullish despite tripling losses
The CEO of Klarna remains confident and takes a jab at rival Affirm as he reports that losses have tripled so far this year.
Block lawsuit over cybersecurity incident is the latest setback for Jack Dorsey
Bock getting sued for failing to live up to its commitment to defend users’ privacy is another thing for Jack Dorsey to worry about
CTO Talk: Q&A with Andrey Korchak of Monite
Why Monite’s CTO doesn’t fear the fintech slowdown.
Have a taste of this: OakNorth boosts board with Gousto founder hire
OakNorth adds some special sauce to its board
African fintechs enjoy record funding, but market volatility could stop the party
A perfect storm of market volatility, red tape and poor infrastructure threatens to pop the African fintech bubble
FUEL bags €1.5m in funding as NFT bubble threatens to pop
Despite signs that the NFT bubble is about to bust, FUEL just bagged €1.5m to keep minting digital tokens
in3 bags $11.1m Series A to provide BNPL with a difference: “We don’t want to put people in debt”
The buy-now-pay-later sector is getting crowded, but Dutch in3 believes it can compete thanks to its social responsibility-focused product.
What’s preventing UK financial institutions from scaling AI success?
Kieran Watts discusses the challenge facing UK fintechs and banks as they strive to accelerate beyond isolated AI successes towards the goal of enterprise-wide digital transformation
The growing role of order-to-cash in business banking
Brandon Spear explains why the next generation of business banking will connect more closely to the full order-to-cash process, helping businesses manage what happens from sale through settlement
When AI agents move money, who decides what they’re allowed to do?
Ludovico Rossi discusses how do you prove what an agent was authorised to do, where that authority ends and how quickly it can be revoked?
Your customers don’t trust AI to make decisions. Here’s why that’s a roadmap, not a roadblock
In retail banking, AI should earn trust before it earns autonomy, explains Brandon Sailors
The side-hustle economy is outgrowing traditional banking
Side hustles have become a structural feature of how people earn, explains Dishang Patel, so banks must meet them where they now stand, rather than where the industry assumed they would always be
The economics of AI in banking: Why the cheapest token is the one you never use
Managing AI cost is not about using less technology, explains Tamsin Crossland but is about designing systems that use technology more intelligently
How can banks adapt to the new economics of AI-assisted cybercrime?
AI is supercharging the scale and speed of financial crime but how can banks defend against machine-led attacks when incident response has historically been built around people? Richard Moore writes
How financial services are entering a new phase of transformation
The defining characteristic of financial services will be disciplined execution, writes Gregory Marchat. Technology investment continues, but with greater focus on measurable returns
Non-negotiables for successful AI adoption in the financial services sector
AI adoption is a people and skills challenge, not just a technology rollout, explains Abi Sorrell. What must financial services firms do in practice to build AI capability and develop digital skills at scale?
Nearly six months on, is the UK’s fraud strategy keeping pace with the threat?
Nearly six months into the UK’s new Fraud Strategy, losses remain high and financial crime teams say emerging threats are developing faster than they can respond, writes Silvija Krupena