The number of application programming interfaces (APIs) being used in banking is growing, and it’s time for banks—even (and especially) those that rely on vendor applications—to get a handle on their API strategy.
The decentralising nature of the new technologies might well push us away from the fiat currency of the nation-state, but what will it push us towards? Perhaps communities? But which communities? Cities are the prime candidates, but their money must embody values other than token speculation.
Crypto has become the go to currency for the Ukrainian Government defending itself from Russia. But crypto has a PR problem with Western governments keen to enforce sanctions. Most recognize cryptocurrency will not fund a war, but sanctions are the crypto industry's most critical test to date.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine exposes the weakness of Europe's strategic policies pursued since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Concurrently, it allows China to put the foundations of Western global hegemony in check, using Russia as a delusional pawn on the international chessboard.
The notion of a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay is fundamental to a harmonious workplace. Most people agree that workers should be paid in full once work is done. The arrival of real-time payments means that payroll on demand is a practical reality.
Providing cross-border payments and other financial solutions, Airwallex is catering to the growing number of global businesses whose operations, employees and markets span multiple borders and timezones.
The three cofounders of Sea Ltd. saw their collective net worth tumble $1.9 billion on Tuesday after the Southeast Asian internet giant said its online gaming business would likely face headwinds this year.
A new study of Americans' checking account relationships underscores the growth of digital banks and fintechs like Chime, PayPal, and Square—and the decline of megabanks like Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo.
A new infrastructure is emerging and that it will open up new business models that will transform the way that we interact. New technology provides a means to execute secure transactions in insecure environments.. And in this, as in so many other ways, Britney Spears was a pioneer.
DCash, a Central Bank Digital Currency of the kind the US is seriously thinking of creating, has now been down for over six weeks. The people who have their money in it have no recourse. This should put the brakes on further consideration of a Central Bank Digital Currency for the US.
For CEO Alex Holmes, MoneyGram's acquisition is an opportunity to accelerate its future development without the constraints that come with making quarterly reports to the markets.
Imagine a merger whereby ICE, owner of NYSE, and Bloomberg, the data platform, fuse into one new legal entity. This is what happened when London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) acquired Refinitiv, a data platform spinoff from Reuters Thompson. Will the combined entity's sustainability strategy succeed?
The convergence of artificial intelligence, aging research, distributed ledger technologies, new sensors, augmented and virtual reality is driving innovation in health and life insurance.
To facilitate for this trend Generali set up HITS - House of Insurtech.