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Alex Walling

In an industry struggling with API complexity, can serendipity help?

If you’ve never seen it, do yourself a favour and check out Steve Jobs’s Stanford 2005 commencement speech. In it, one of the most successful business people of all time listed key events and decision...

28 Feb 2023
API
Fraser Scott

WHY FAST-GROWING FINTECHS NEED TO FOCUS ON SOFTWARE SECURITY

While the term ‘fintech’ is said to have been coined in 1993, its growth over the last decade in particular has been astonishing - it’s currently estimated to grow at a rate of 26.2% per year, achievi...

20 Feb 2023
Steve Morgan

What the ChatGPT do you know about generative AI in banking?

ChatGPT, while getting much attention, is just the beginning of a new era of using a specific category of AI as a tool for organisations to improve their operations and provide better service to custo...

16 Feb 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Kevin Davis

Debunking 3 Myths of the Cloud

Cloud adoption has been embraced by companies with 94% using some form of cloud computing in their operations in 2022. One of the best business decisions organisations can currently make is to no lon...

11 Jan 2023
Innovation in Financial Services
Victor Martin

Cost to Build Fintech App Using React Native

What makes React Native so popular as a front-end development option for Fintech app projects? This is a common question that has appeared on Google in recent years. There is a multitude of reasons be...

20 Dec 2022
Business Knowledge for IT
A Finextra Member

Understand the value of data before you try to use it

Information is one of the most important weapons in the armoury of any bank. This is well understood by most institutions, as evidenced by the huge investment they have made in trying to leverage the ...

12 Dec 2022
Big Data
Muhammad Faizan Siddiqui

Unlocking the Potential of SaaS: Avoiding Common Pitfalls

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) providers offer a convenient solution for businesses looking to outsource the operations and maintenance of their internal software without incurring the overhead or risk ...

05 Dec 2022
Banking Architecture
Sergio Barbosa

Businesses losing billions to poor quality software, putting many at risk for 2023

Businesses are losing billions due to poor quality software. And, as the economy tightens and skills remain scarce, this is likely to get worse, forcing them to pay to fix avoidable problems and resul...

29 Nov 2022
Trends in Financial Services
Koen Vanpraet

Banking-as-a-Service: A Sporting Chance for Fintechs

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) has been widely discussed across the fintech world over the past few years. A key component of open banking, it reconfigures the banking value chain by helping remove the i...

27 Oct 2022
Open Banking
A Finextra Member

Where next for banks on their rock-strewn cloud journey?

The banking sector was not quick to take the cloud model to its heart. A combination of heavy investment in legacy systems and an in-built cultural reticence around letting go of on-premises control m...

18 Oct 2022
Banking Architecture
A Finextra Member

Making sense out of digital spaghetti

Traditional retail banking institutions are facing a major perception gap between the expectations of consumers and the perceived performance of their brand. This is the central finding of a new repor...

04 Oct 2022
The digital Chasm
Steve Morgan

AI and Intelligent Automation is Key for Banks to Help Navigate Inflationary Stormy Weather

Six months ago preparing for SIBOS, the biggest elephant in the room for what’s keeping bankers up at night was probably sanctions. How Western governments have ratcheted up sanctions against Russians...

29 Sep 2022
Innovation in Financial Services

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