Why 2021 will be the year of low-code development in financial services
- 22.01.2021
- Chris McLaughlin , Chief Product & Marketing
Few would argue that we are currently in the midst of a highly challenging period for Financial Services (FS) firms. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt almost everything, from the health and safety of employees, to the need to meet rapidly changing customer requirements. The fall-out from Brexit means that FS is still to settle down and...
Why the Serial Investor is Betting on the Future of Bitcoin
- 14.01.2021
- Sheldon Inwentash, Chairman and CEO
A collective interest has been sparked around Bitcoin over the past decade. Since its inception, Bitcoin has seen dramatic highs followed by a few crashes, but overall it has consistently retained a significant portion of its gains. To shed some light on where Bitcoin is headed, we sat down with Sheldon Inwentash, Chairman and CEO of ThreeD...
Fintech Trends For 2021
- 28.12.2020
- Alexander von Schirmeister, Executive Vice President for Europe
What can we expect in general for the fintech industry in 2021 (what will be trending in Europe / key markets)? Next year we should expect continued growth all around as consumer behaviours keep demanding better and more innovative products. The general acceleration towards online (which was particularly accelerated by the 2020 pandemic) will...
ICSFS Sees Growing Tech Adoption Among Islamic Countries
- 14.12.2020
- Wael Malkawi, executive director
Tech is disrupting the conventional banking sector from back office core banking to customer-facing processes. Islamic banking is no different. Wael Malkawi, executive director at ICS Financial Systems (ICSFS), spoke with IBS Intelligence about how technology has disrupted Islamic banks in recent years. How has Islamic banking evolved...
A New Era for Global Financial Transactions
- 08.12.2020
- Tom Zschach, Chief Innovation Officer,
SWIFT’s Chief Innovation Officer, Tom Zschach, speaks to Financial IT about the cooperative’s ambitious new strategy and its innovation agenda moving forward You have been Chief Innovation Officer at SWIFT for a year now and the world has changed significantly in that short time, how do you see financial services adapting to the ‘new normal’?...
Investing as magic discovered
- 24.11.2020
- Denis Gulagin and Fyodor Panteleev , CEO and CPO
In this day and age, there is an app for everything. Your diet, your schedule, your pleasures, your sleep, your money – just tap on the icon on the screen, and you’ll have all you need. Wonderful, isn’t it? To the extent that it is pretty unclear sometimes who does what: your phone manages you through the apps, or you manage your life through your...
PayRetailers helps companies to offer payment solutions in the LATAM region
- 17.11.2020
- Rodrigo Puig-Mir, Head of Product Development
The Barcelona-based startup PayRetailers (PayR) helps companies that want to enter the markets in the LATAM region with its diverse suite of payment options through a single integration. Founded recently in 2017, PayR has already managed to build a strong network of partners in multiple Latin American countries with operations that span from north...
Challenger Banks Are Not Immune to Challenges of COVID-Related Consumer Changes
- 19.10.2020
- Tom Ainsworth, Account Executive UK/Ireland
Financial IT: Please introduce us to your company. Tom Ainsworth: Jitterbit Harmony is an API integration platform provider. We help our customers quickly connect disparate apps and data sources within their business to solve data challenges and to make their processes more efficient.. We’ve been around for 17 years and started off working with...