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Igor Kostyuchenok SVP of Engineering at Mbanq
The world of banking is at the verge of big changes that most incumbents are desperately trying to ignore. They see the change coming, they realize that their inactivity will cost them their existense but they are choosing to play dead. It's easier to cut the jobs and walk out with the bonuses then to start acting to still be relevant in 5-10 year...
01 May 2025 /retail /predictions
Sergiy Fitsak Managing Director, Fintech Expert at Softjourn
AI-assisted coding tools have added incredible momentum to software development. As the Managing Director of a software development company, many of my teams use AI coding tools daily. They help my teams build faster, remove tedious manual work, and prototype new ideas quickly. In the fintech industry, where innovation cycles are tightening, AI’s ...
28 April 2025 /ai /retail
Indra Chourasia Industry Advisor at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Uncertainty adding new regulatory drift Amid the increased unpredictability of economic policies affecting the business landscape, the recent optimism about regulatory reforms and deregulation, expected to bring relief from the burden of onerous compliance, seems to be gradually fading out. While the costs and complexities in managing the carryove...
28 April 2025 /ai /regulation
Satya Samal Partner, Financial Services at IBM
In March, the Treasury Committee delivered worrying news. Since January 2023, the top nine banks faced 33 days of unplanned outages. This excludes the payday system crash in February, which makes matters worse. These IT failures dominated headlines just as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force earlier this year. What’s cau...
27 April 2025 /regulation /cloud
Prashant Bansal Sr. Principal Consultant at Oracle
Resilience at Scale: Understanding and Implementing the Circuit Breaker Pattern in Microservices In the evolving landscape of financial services, where milliseconds matter and system reliability is non-negotiable, modern software architecture must accommodate resilience by design. Distributed systems—particularly those employing microservices—are i...
23 April 2025 /security /inclusion
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In many financial institutions, architecture teams serve as central advisory units, overseeing multiple projects and defining architectural standards. These teams often include various specialists—enterprise, solution, integration, and security architects—each responsible for reviewing, amending, and validating proposed solutions. However, this l
21 April 2025 /people /devops
In the telecom world, number portability has long been a reality. You can switch mobile providers without losing your phone number — a change that radically transformed the industry. It made switching carriers seamless, eliminating the hassle of informing contacts about a new number. This one innovation significantly boosted customer mobility and
14 April 2025 /payments /predictions
Steve Morgan Banking Industry Market Lead at Pegasystems
Chargeback requests have been a feature of retail banking for years but in the last 12 months there has been a tidal surge of customer requests. Research firm, Datos Insights, discovered customers disputed $11 billion worth of charges in the U.S. in 2023 alone, with this forecast to rise 40% by 2026. Other countries are seeing similar sharp increa...
09 April 2025 /payments
John Bertrand MD at Tec 8 Limited
The technology on show at the Retail Technology Show at Excel, London is a glimpse of the future for the retail and payment industries. Both industries channels have similar expressions of crime being out of control. Shoplifting, online scams and payment fraud particularly Authorised Push Payment (APP) being highlighted. The British Retail Consor...
07 April 2025 /payments /retail
In today’s high-stakes digital environment, financial institutions and fintech innovators are under constant pressure to deliver secure, compliant, and seamless experiences—without slowing down innovation. From digital banks and payment platforms to investment and personal finance apps, the margin for error is razor-thin. A single overlooked vulne...
27 March 2025 /payments /retail
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