FINANCE

Green debt swaps firmly on the agenda, says new Planet Tracker report

Green debt swaps firmly on the agenda, says new Planet Tracker report

With the World Bank and the IMF planning green debt swaps, financial think tank reveals why African countries should be the priority d..

Gold-based fintech Glint smashes crowdfunding target securing over £3m ($4m) – 151% of target raised as Seedrs fundraising closes in UK

Gold-based fintech Glint smashes crowdfunding target securing over £3m ($4m) – 151% of target raised as Seedrs fundraising closes in UK

Crowdfunding is still open to US investors via the Republic platform  Almost 1,200 investors join Glint’s payments revolution as cons..

The New Role of the CFO: The De Facto Chief Growth Officer

The New Role of the CFO: The De Facto Chief Growth Officer

By Fuad Ahmad, Chief Financial Officer, Chargebee Fuad Ahmad, Chief Financial Officer, Chargebee We all learned in 2020 th..

People don’t like to be told no when it comes to finance

People don’t like to be told no when it comes to finance

By Scott Donnelly, Director of Board at CapitalBox   Nobody likes to be told no, from a child the word is usually accompanied by ..

Why companies need to rethink retirement – Tips for ensuring a happy life in later years

Why companies need to rethink retirement – Tips for ensuring a happy life in later years

By Michael Middleton, director with Pro-Vision Lifestyles The Financial Services sector has taken a battering both from the impact of ..

Top Fintech Trends for 2021 Enabling Smart and Secure Finance

Top Fintech Trends for 2021 Enabling Smart and Secure Finance

By Volodymyr Marchuk, Cloud and Solutions Architect at Eleks According to a recent Deloitte report, the pandemic has been “reshaping t..

5 Top Ways to Buy Ethereum

5 Top Ways to Buy Ethereum

By Arjun Ruparelia  Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization. While it has seen its share of up..

Remortgaging a Home to Buy-to-Let – How Does it Work?

Remortgaging a Home to Buy-to-Let – How Does it Work?

If you are planning to relocate but would like to hold onto your current property, you could consider letting it out to tenants, in wh..

Money Orders vs Checks: What You Need to Know as a Consumer

Money Orders vs Checks: What You Need to Know as a Consumer

If you are looking to pay somebody and don’t want to pay them using cash, you can use a check or a money order instead. There ar..

Inflation and the Bank of England: what its rate-setters are saying

Inflation and the Bank of England: what its rate-setters are saying

LONDON (Reuters) – Some Bank of England officials say the time is approaching for action to fend off higher inflation as Britain..

Five Ways Bad Bots Are Trying To Crack Your Virtual Vaults

Five Ways Bad Bots Are Trying To Crack Your Virtual Vaults

By Erez Hasson, Strategist, Application Security at Imperva Since the start of the digital era, financial institutions have been at th..

Developmental best practices must change to ensure the post-pandemic recovery of financial services

Developmental best practices must change to ensure the post-pandemic recovery of financial services

By Perry Krug, Director, Customer Success, Couchbase A banks’ digital development doesn’t just rely on tools and technology. It also r..

Five considerations for financial analytics and reporting success

Five considerations for financial analytics and reporting success

By Thomas Sutter, Finance Centre of Excellence, Oracle NetSuite Businesses today rely on data, and fortunately there’s no shortage of ..

How to earn crypto using Twitch

How to earn crypto using Twitch

As Twitch may not need an introduction, is it certainly worthy of one. Launched in 2011, Twitch is an American video live streaming se..

What Is Chime? Answers From Real Chime Reviews

What Is Chime? Answers From Real Chime Reviews

Advancements in the field of Fin-Tech have enabled the creation of financial technology companies to offer their customers access to q..

Brighter financial futures will be powered by better infrastructure

Brighter financial futures will be powered by better infrastructure

By Sam Handfield-Jones, co-CEO of Seccl, the digital custody and investment API provider that’s part of the Octopus Group ..

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Passive Income

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating Passive Income

Working for a living is all well and good, but what if you could also make money without having to dedicate any more of your precious ..

Pandemic loans: Three ways to secure recovery

Pandemic loans: Three ways to secure recovery

Through the worst of the pandemic, the government set up interest-free emergency support packages to help struggling businesses. With ..

Fed keen to be ‘well positioned’ to act on inflation, other risks, minutes show

Fed keen to be ‘well positioned’ to act on inflation, other risks, minutes show

By Howard Schneider, Jonnelle Marte and Lindsay Dunsmuir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve officials last month felt substa..

G20 to back global corporate tax deal, says French finance minister

G20 to back global corporate tax deal, says French finance minister

PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday his G20 counterparts are poised to give political endor..

COLLECTING COLLECTIBLES? CONSIDER THIS.

COLLECTING COLLECTIBLES? CONSIDER THIS.

By: Stephanie Spies, CFP When you think of collectibles, the first things that may come to mind are your baseball card collection, the..

The fear of inheriting wealth; How a philanthropic legacy can burden and uplift the next generation

The fear of inheriting wealth; How a philanthropic legacy can burden and uplift the next generation

By: Antonia Mitchell, Director, Aurelia Philanthropy The trouble with Wills Wills are tricky subjects at the best of times, with the l..

Halfway through 2021, what can you do now to finish the 2021 investment year strong?

Halfway through 2021, what can you do now to finish the 2021 investment year strong?

By: Eddie Ortiz, Founder & CEO of PressPlay Finance With the world starting to open up slowly post-pandemic, it can be..

Factbox-UK aims to strengthen London as a global financial centre

Factbox-UK aims to strengthen London as a global financial centre

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s finance ministry set out reforms to capital markets on Thursday to sharpen the City of London..

4 Things you Need to Know About Mortgages

4 Things you Need to Know About Mortgages

Whether you are just starting to think about buying your first home, or you are already mortgaged up to the eyeballs and looking for s..

What is passive income and how can it make your money work for you?

What is passive income and how can it make your money work for you?

By Edgar de Picciotto, co-founder of ikigai, the beautifully designed digital banking app that uniquely combines financial self-care w..

Open Finance can help unlock innovation across the financial ecosystem

Open Finance can help unlock innovation across the financial ecosystem

By Anthony Badger, FS&I API Lead at Axway   With customers increasingly prepared to shop around for their banking needs and r..

Lasting Powers of Attorney – your client’s questions answered

Lasting Powers of Attorney – your client’s questions answered

By Samantha Warner, Associate at Winckworth Sherwood   There has been much talk in the media in recent months about Lasting Powers of ..

Montenegro EU Admission Process Paved by Loan from Brussels

Montenegro EU Admission Process Paved by Loan from Brussels

In 2014 China granted a loan to Montenegro for construction of a highway from the city of Bar to the border of Serbia. This highway is..

5 Steps to Strengthening Your Online Financial Security

5 Steps to Strengthening Your Online Financial Security

In recent years, the advancements in digital banking have made managing money on the move as easy as checking your email. However, wit..

Untapped Cost Savings: Why Smart Building Management Systems are a Finance Department Priority

Untapped Cost Savings: Why Smart Building Management Systems are a Finance Department Priority

By Kas Mohammed, VP of Digital Energy at Schneider Electric The priority for any finance team is keeping costs to a minimum while driv..

These are the technologies that will disrupt finance post-pandemic

These are the technologies that will disrupt finance post-pandemic

By Mark Crichton, Senior Director of Security Product Management at OneSpan The financial services industry had already been experienc..

Anti-money laundering doesn’t have to be a painfully inefficient process

Anti-money laundering doesn’t have to be a painfully inefficient process

By Glenn Smith, EMEA Head of AML & Head of Fraud, SAS UK & Ireland Banks are being found out. As headlines continue to circula..

Preparing for normal: Advice on post-pandemic budgeting

Preparing for normal: Advice on post-pandemic budgeting

Although we’re not there yet, the light is shining brightly through the end of the tunnel for many countries across the world – and th..

Top tips for securing SoftPOS payments

Top tips for securing SoftPOS payments

By Christian Damour, Pre-sales Manager – Security at Fime Digital payments have sky-rocketed in popularity as consumers have sought ne..

AI in the finance department: augmenting, not replacing

AI in the finance department: augmenting, not replacing

By Ray Welsh, Head of Product Marketing, FISCAL Technologies Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago, finance departme..

12 Things That Don’t Hurt Your Credit Score

12 Things That Don’t Hurt Your Credit Score

By Stefanie Gordon We often see doomsday articles about what can hurt or temporarily ding your credit score: Making late payments! Hav..