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Fintech

The next fintech frontier: finance for global citizens

LemFi co-founder and CEO Ridwan Olalere argues that fintech must let migrants carry their credit history and financial identity with them across borders.

More than 300 million people now live outside their country of birth, and for many of them a credit history does not survive the move. The founder of one cross-border finance platform argues that this is the gap fintech has so far left open.

 

Rowen Brooks  · 
Fintech

RegTech and SupTech are becoming one ecosystem

CUBE founder Ben Richmond argues that regulators and regulated firms now want the same real-time regulatory intelligence, making the two labels redundant.
CUBE founder Ben Richmond argues that regulators and regulated firms now want the same real-time regulatory intelligence, making the two labels redundant.
Rowen Brooks  · 
Cybersecurity
Fintech

Fintech built its front door around a face

Cyberette founder Julia Jakimenko on the deepfake fraudster who opened 46 ABN AMRO accounts, five ways to beat a face check, and why the EU AI Act stops none.
Cyberette founder Julia Jakimenko on the deepfake fraudster who opened 46 ABN AMRO accounts, five ways to beat a face check, and why the EU AI Act stops none.
Rowen Brooks  · 
Fintech

From challengers to giants: fintechs are the new disruptors

Exactly.com COO Mark Andreev argues that Klarna, Revolut and their peers have gone from fringe challengers to owning the customer relationship.
Exactly.com COO Mark Andreev argues that Klarna, Revolut and their peers have gone from fringe challengers to owning the customer relationship.
Rowen Brooks  · 
Fintech
AI & ML

From trading terminal to AI agent: who owns the decision?

Futures trader Amir Naser Hojati argues that when an AI agent analyses, recommends and executes in one step, firms must decide in advance who owns the trade.
Futures trader Amir Naser Hojati argues that when an AI agent analyses, recommends and executes in one step, firms must decide in advance who owns the trade.
Rowen Brooks  · 
AI & ML

What the tech correction means for emerging market investors

Mark Martyrossian, Director at Aubrey Capital Management, weighs whether the AI stock correction is a floor or the start of a rotation towards India.

AI has been the dominant driver in markets this year. For emerging markets, this has played out in an extraordinary demand for those stocks that produce the 'picks and shovels' of the AI gold rush. Memory chip manufacturers have been in the vanguard of this rally.

Rowen Brooks  · 
Fintech

Why Iraq's Digital Future is Closer than Ever

Qi Group's Ahmed Kadhum argues Iraq can leapfrog conventional development stages as digital payments become the gateway to a connected
economy.

Discussions at the world's leading fintech conferences have moved beyond digital payments.

Why Iraq's Digital Future is Closer than Ever  · 
AI & ML
Fintech

Qatar Insurance Group Reinvents Insurance with Agentic AI

Scale Gross Written Premium with Agentic Models as Qatar Insurance Group Reinvents the Value Chain

Lars Gehrmann , former Group Chief Digital and AI Officer at Qatar Insurance Group, is driving a structural shift across the Middle Eastern insurance sector by transitioning corporate operations from generative AI testing to a fully

Disrupts Editorial Team  · 
AI & ML
Internet of Things
Datatech
Fintech

Middle East Banks Leapfrog Legacy Systems to Pioneer Cloud & AI

Middle East Banks Leapfrog Legacy Systems to Pioneer Sovereign Cloud and Agentic AI Architecture

The Middle East financial sector is rapidly outstripping its Western counterparts by bypassing traditional core banking legacies in favor of cutting-edge sovereign cloud infrastructures and agentic artificial intelligence systems.

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