FinTech

3 valuable gains growing companies derive from payroll analytics
Talent recruitment without data is drought with challenges. Hiring managers may find themselves at a disadvantage when determining how much they need to pay their employees. Offer them too little, and they’re unlikely to work for you. Pay them too much, and you’re not utilizing your resources effectively. Compensation management

I Reverse Engineered Monzo’s Content Marketing Strategy: Here’s What Marketers Can Learn
App-only challenger banks have risen to try and push incumbents off their financial perch, and in this battle, content marketing has been a valuable tool in their repertoires. Have you ever wondered how they do it? If you’ve never heard of Monzo, it’s a UK-based challenger bank that has grown

Here are the biggest challenges SMEs in the UK are facing
SMEs are the unsung heroes of any economy- producing numerous jobs, the backbone to big corporates to scale up and still struggling to sustain themselves. They are unable to innovate as fast as younger companies and lack the funds that larger corporations have. As we enter a new decade, over half (58%) of

Consumer data might be the new oil, but who gets to decide how it’s used?
From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to GDPR and data breach headlines, the idea that consumers should know how their data is used is gaining traction with governments and consumer groups. What does this trend mean for companies that rely on consumer data for their business model? Right now, consumer data

Three Trends in E-commerce Payments to be Concerned About
With ecommerce sales skyrocketing, the options for online transactions are manifold. But what are the problems that come with these many choices to pay? Find out. Global e-commerce sales hit $29 trillion in 2017 according to data released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) early this

Alternative Data Meets Fintech: Tweets, Parking Lot Pictures and Criminal Take-downs
In an increasingly competitive market, how are fintech companies adapting to improve their decision making? In industries such as insurance, capital markets, cryptocurrency, wealth and asset management — alternative data is proving to be a valuable source of insight. Like a broken leaf to a hunter or a change of

The Layman’s Guide to Banking as a Service
Banking as a Service (BaaS) is the democratisation of financial capabilities that have fiercely been protected, isolated and hidden in silos for hundreds of years by banks. The fact that BaaS opens up banks’ capabilities and essentially empowers anyone to be able to create their own financial products, goes against

“With Algo-Trading, the market will have good liquidity & higher profits for users from the trading process.”
How to implement an Algo Order in Cybex Dex?Yes, this is one of the challenges for the second Blockchain Hackathon (part of LongHash Cryptocon Vol2) in Berlin on May 18-19 this year. More details here. As an advantage to all developers, Blockchain enthusiasts and Crypto geeks who are aching to

AI Jobs Disruption – Why the U.S. Financial Services Industry is Different
No longer considered the “future of work,” AI is infiltrating industries and job roles at impactful rates. Across the U.S. economy, one-third of the U.S. workers are interacting with some form of AI in their jobs today – even if many of these interactions are still in a limited capacity.

Improving Debt Collection with Predictive Models
FICO scores will be soon improved by predictive analytics. This new approach is more accurate and can extend to the entire debt management process. Badly assessed financial risks were at the core of the financial crisis in the late 2000s. Banks and credit companies used faulty models which did not