Category: Industry

After a sustained period of calm, the FX market has sprung into action in 2022. Recent volatility has exposed the shortcomings of many firms’ FX setups and there is now a movement towards digitising the entire FX workflow.

On 12 October 2022, the Electronic Trade Documents Bill was presented before parliament. It’s seen as the next step in a long road towards transitioning away from the country’s reliance on paper-based legacy systems for trade documents. So, with the bill now set to go through the House of Lords before heading to the House of Commons, what does it mean for the future of trade and digitalisation?

As Central Bank Digital Currency Development (CBDC) begins to move from the research phase to real-life building, I’ve spent a lot of time in recent months thinking about why a retail CBDC might be needed.

Hot off the heels of last week’s Sibos conference in Amsterdam, the fintech industry’s attention swiftly shifts to the other side of the pond this week for Money 20/20 USA. Against the backdrop of a particularly challenging and eventful year in finance, what are we likely to see dominating the agenda at this year’s show?

Bill Harris, founding CEO of Nirvana Money and formerly founding CEO of PayPal and Personal Capital, recently wrote an opinion article in the Financial Times on how fintechs have made consumers’ lives unnecessarily complicated.

Just over a year after the UN dubbed climate change a “code red” emergency for humanity, the effects of global warming are being felt acutely across the globe.

Backed by the London Stock Exchange, industry group Fintech Week London (FTWL) has announced a new review of the fintech funding landscape. Here we discuss what this means for the sector moving forwards and how fintech is adapting to inflationary pressures.

R3 was one of a roster of fintechs that contributed to the Kalifa review – a set of recommendations outlined for the UK’s fintech community to grow and flourish in the years ahead. R3’s Managing Director, Charley Cooper, shares the recommendations that R3 put to Ron Kalifa, which helped shape the outcome of the review.

While we have all faced a new set of challenges over the past twelve months, research tells us that women have felt the challenges of the last year most acutely. In recognition of International Women’s Day, I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the women in business who have broken barriers during a year, which for several reasons, has been anything but ordinary.

A lot can happen in a year, and 2021 was no exception.