IMF’s World Economic Outlook, July 2019
Still Sluggish Global Growth • Global growth remains subdued. Since the April World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the United States further increased tariffs on certain Chinese imports and China retaliated by raisin...
Fintech Nation: Hungary
Perhaps not the first place to be considered as a hotspot for fintech activity, Hungary and its capital, Budapest, are making headway in developing products and services for the country’s fledgling financial sector a...
What is key to transformation on a corporate level?
No one is clueless to the difficulties which make change of any kind a slow-moving process in the legacy sector of finance. But, according to some, a touch of persuasive creativity may be the missing ingredient when ...
7 things for firms to consider before taking the plunge into AI
Globally ranked influencer and AI expert Mark Lynd runs through the issues that financial organizations should weigh up before rushing into the technology – and the potential pitfalls for those that don’t. AI is...
Featurespace talks Tech, Fraud, and protecting Danske Bank
The recent money laundering scandal involving Danske Bank, Denmark’s biggest lender, shocked the financial world. As it attempts to rebuild its reputation, the bank has engaged the services of Featurespace, the world’s l...
Reinventing the FICO score
Experian, FICO and Fincity have joined forces to create a new credit scoring technology designed for thin-file customers. The new score, named UltraFICO score, leverages consumer-permissioned account data...
Paysend superpowers payments
According to the World Bank’s latest Remittance Report, $5.1 trillion dollars are transferred daily across the globe. The market today is shared among the old financial institutions and more than 350 paytech startups. Pa...
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