Fintech and the Self-Directed Investor: Bardya Ziaian, CEO of SITTU Group, on How They Intersect
- 17.02.2021
- Bardya Ziaian, CEO & President
While the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged industries from restaurants to airlines to oil and gas, fintech has not only gotten away unscathed – it has expanded at an unprecedented rate with the help of self-directed investors (SDIs). To better understand how the growing popularity of fintech and the expanding SDI demographic will change the investing...
Hybrid Cloud - This time it means business
- 04.02.2021
- Dom Poloniecki, VP & General Manager, Western Europe & Africa
Nutanix survey finds hybrid cloud is becoming a strategic business requirement The mixing of private and public clouds to create a scalable hybrid infrastructure has long been the aspirational model for IT across the board. And, at long last, those hybrid cloud dreams are becoming a reality. Partly because barriers to implementation are falling (and...
Born during the hard times with congenital instinct to survive
- 27.01.2021
- Valentin Ivanov, Founder & CEO
2020 has threatened the financial industry's viability, causing setbacks to many businesses impacting their liquidity, credit, suspension of licenses or pushing them to bankruptcy. However, the pandemic is not solely to blame, as there were already many financial barriers existing for those businesses in the first place. The crisis merely revealed that...
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...
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...