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Minding The Gap: The importance of inclusive financial strategies as digital currencies rise 

Minding The Gap: The importance of inclusive financial strategies as digital currencies rise 

By Nick Fisher, General Manager, Sales and Marketing, UK, JCB International (Europe) Digital technology is changing the world. What we..

Is it time for SMEs to go fully cashless?

Is it time for SMEs to go fully cashless?

  By Simon England, Managing Director, Equals Money   As a result of the pandemic, the prospect of a cashless society seems more ..

Giving women the power to make money and take control of their destiny

Giving women the power to make money and take control of their destiny

  By Philippa White, Founder & CEO of The International Exchange (TIE), a comfort zone disruptor.  Passionate about growth an..

Guidance for transfer of nil-rate Inheritance Tax allowance 

Guidance for transfer of nil-rate Inheritance Tax allowance 

      By Laura Colville, Senior Associate at Irwin Mitchell    It has been a long-established position that couple..

How financial planning starts with a new approach to budgeting and forecasting

How financial planning starts with a new approach to budgeting and forecasting

    By Mark Bodger, Director at ICit Business Intelligence   We live in extremely volatile times. But unpredictability has trad..

Home Prices Are Setting Records While Mortgage Rates Plunge – Is It Time To Refinance?

Home Prices Are Setting Records While Mortgage Rates Plunge – Is It Time To Refinance?

2022 was supposed to be the year that the property market returned to normal. After more than eighteen months of home prices rapidly r..

Gary McGaghey Explains How CFOs Can Strengthen Decision-Making Processes and Reimagine the Finance Model

Gary McGaghey Explains How CFOs Can Strengthen Decision-Making Processes and Reimagine the Finance Model

Two strategic moves for finance leaders to reap the results they need. Finance teams have reduced their costs by nearly 30% over the p..

How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Lawyer?

How Much Does It Cost to Hire a Lawyer?

From navigating a divorce or facing criminal charges, to drawing up contracts and dealing with an injury, there are endless aspects of..

Credit Union Loans in High Demand

Credit Union Loans in High Demand

The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) have found, following findings from December 2021, that personal loans are the highest de..

How Web 3.0 literacy will become mandatory in 2022

How Web 3.0 literacy will become mandatory in 2022

      By Nick Coronges, the Chief Technology Officer for R/GA, a global design and innovation consultancy that provides Web ..

When Is The Cost Of Electricity The Cheapest In A Day?

When Is The Cost Of Electricity The Cheapest In A Day?

If you’re living on a budget, or simply trying to save on your energy bills, you’re probably wondering when energy prices ..

Trends in the financial service landscape and the impact on fraud

Trends in the financial service landscape and the impact on fraud

By Saeed Patel, product and tech expert at Eastnets   A report from TransUnion found that digital fraud attempts on financial ser..

Are compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations hurting your sales?

Are compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations hurting your sales?

By Scott Jones, Illustrate Digital CEO Many companies are concerned that the lengthy process of verifying a customer’s identity ..

ScanWriter v. Verafin: Which Solution Can Help You Unravel Financial Scams Efficiently?

ScanWriter v. Verafin: Which Solution Can Help You Unravel Financial Scams Efficiently?

“Torture the data, and it will confess to everything.” – Ronald Coase, Economist & Author Usually, fraudsters conceal their ..

Sponsor in the Middle

Sponsor in the Middle

By Marc Naidoo, sustainable finance partner in the London office of international law firm, McGuireWoods Marc Naidoo Histo..

Why we’ll look back on 2022 as a defining year for fintech

Why we’ll look back on 2022 as a defining year for fintech

By Stephen Lemon, co-founder of B2B payments firm Currencycloud When we look back at the state of the economy over the past few years,..

How financial services can secure data and build trust in today’s modern environment

How financial services can secure data and build trust in today’s modern environment

By Martin Riley, Director of Managed Security Services at Bridewell Consulting No other sector is more data-driven, digitised, or more..

How fintechs are supporting the hospitality industry

How fintechs are supporting the hospitality industry

By Dr Albian Albrahimi, Lecturer in Finance, Les Roches Global Hospitality Education Fintechs have experienced a significa..

Three areas of focus for Financial Service CISOs in 2022

Three areas of focus for Financial Service CISOs in 2022

By James Mingard, Head of Retail & Finance at Maintel Research suggests there has been a 1,300% increase in ransomware attacks on ..

Three ways blockchain is transforming payments

Three ways blockchain is transforming payments

By Stefano Bettinelli, Head of Innovation, MultiPay Group “Caring is good, authentic is better, but dependable is best” – Carlos..

Analysis-Crypto exchanges won’t bar Russians, raising fears of sanctions backdoor

Analysis-Crypto exchanges won’t bar Russians, raising fears of sanctions backdoor

By Tom Wilson LONDON (Reuters) – Some of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges are staying put in Russia, breaking ..

Using Bridging Finance to Avoid Repossession

Using Bridging Finance to Avoid Repossession

Tempted by some of the lowest interest rates ever seen, first-time buyers have been on something of a spending spree over the past few..

FINANCE

Choosing the best Digital Experience Platform (DXP) in financial services

Choosing the best Digital Experience Platform (DXP) in financial services

By Diane Murray, EMEA Strategy Lead, Progress Digital experiences play a different role in different industries and the financial services industry ha..

6 Common questions about bankruptcy

6 Common questions about bankruptcy

Bankruptcy could be the solution you need to get rid of your debts and regain control of your financial life. However, you should know..

Rapidly evolving buy now pay later finance drives retail growth

Rapidly evolving buy now pay later finance drives retail growth

By Mike Dawson, CEO, Deko The retail industry has in recent years changed in a manner more profound than anything seen in the sector s..

How Financial Advisers Can Assess Mental Capacity In Their Vulnerable Customers In 2022

How Financial Advisers Can Assess Mental Capacity In Their Vulnerable Customers In 2022

By Tim Farmer, Co-founder and Clinical Director at Comentis The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) measures around duty of care to th..

Why trust and technology are the perfect partnership to rebuild the financial sector

Why trust and technology are the perfect partnership to rebuild the financial sector

By Steve Rackham, Senior Solutions Engineering Manager, EMEA Global at NetApp When it comes to dealing with financial serv..

5 Practical Ways To Manage Your Business Expenses

5 Practical Ways To Manage Your Business Expenses

It can be challenging to take control of all your business expenses. This feat can be even more difficult if they have grown into a pi..

How much do you need to know about the ATO’s Cryptocurrency Letter?

How much do you need to know about the ATO’s Cryptocurrency Letter?

The ATO’s guidelines on cryptocurrency taxes became legislation on that day, December 17th, 2014. As a result of this, the ATO h..

Keeping up with heightened consumer expectations in financial services

Keeping up with heightened consumer expectations in financial services

By Patrick Costello, Senior Product Strategy Director, Optimizely   The shift from physical banking in branches to online banking serv..

The Top 3 ecommerce trends to prepare for in 2022

The Top 3 ecommerce trends to prepare for in 2022

By Alex Baulf, Senior Director, Global Indirect Tax at Avalara, shares his outlook for what promises to be a busy year ahead for e-com..

Mastercard 2022 payment predictions

Mastercard 2022 payment predictions

By Scott Abrahams, SVP Business Development and Fintech at Mastercard  1.The indomitable rise of green fintech Scott Abrah..

The forgotten half of PSD2

The forgotten half of PSD2

By Amir Nooriala, CCO, Callsign  Amir Nooriala, CCO, Callsign One of the core objectives of open banking is to drive innov..

How to Boost Your Chances of Qualifying for a Development Loan

How to Boost Your Chances of Qualifying for a Development Loan

Traversing the initial learning curve that accompanies a development finance application can be tricky. If you have not applied for a ..

Bridging Finance for Property Development

Bridging Finance for Property Development

One of the biggest benefits of bridging finance is the flexibility of the facility that is available to the borrower. A bridging loan ..

Government Assisted Financing Schemes For Small Businesses

Government Assisted Financing Schemes For Small Businesses

Covid-19 has exacted havoc and financial pain across the globe. Aside from poorer regions and countries where access to vaccines is li..

Facilitating open finance through secure services

Facilitating open finance through secure services

Travis Spencer, CEO, Curity  The open banking revolution is well underway, with financial services heading towards a more integrated futur..