For all 3 days of vibrant debates, challenging topics, high-tech workshops, and engaging presentations, the organizers expect nearly 100 speakers from over 30 countries, including Germany, Greece, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, the Nordics, the UK, Brazil, and the US. […]
The partnership, which facilitate digitization and automation of Emaar’s B2B Payments through Visa & Mashreq’s virtual card solution over a direct ERP integration, comes with a distinctive and unique proposition for large and mid-sized corporates in the Middle East region […]
Revolut added 12m new customers globally last year, totalling 38m in 2023 and reaching 45m in June 2024. The company is on track to surpass 50m customers by the end of FY24. In the local market, the retail customer base […]
Nexus is a BIS Innovation Hub project that seeks to enhance cross-border payments by connecting multiple domestic instant payment systems (IPS) globally. BIS will facilitate central banks and IPS operators of India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand as they […]
In the finance world, and beyond, most of us have already been wowed by AI’s potential to drive disruptive change. The question now is, how? Artificial Intelligence (AI) will profoundly change the future of finance and money. And according to […]
A new study by Juniper Research found the value of contactless payment transactions will grow by 113% over the next five years, from $7.4 trillion in 2024. The new research, featuring comprehensive market sizing and forecasts for both Contactless Payments […]
Copenhagen-based fintech startup, ZTLment, has made waves as the first in Europe to pioneer compliant wallet infrastructure on decentralised rails for ordering- and booking platforms. „Having raised €2.4 million in total pre-seed funding, ZTLment aims to eliminate the need for […]
The survey suggests that central banks are proceeding at their own speed, taking diverse approaches and considering different design features. Over the course of 2023, there has been a sharp uptick in experiments and pilots with wholesale CBDCs – mainly in advanced […]
Last year the Italian Banking Association said it would trial a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC), Project Leonidas, as part of a Bank of Italy’s sandbox. It released the trial results last week, declaring it a success. The primary benefits were atomic transactions, […]
The BIS has today released a paper on ‘Intelligent financial system: how AI is transforming finance. The paper is authored by Iñaki Aldasoro, Leonardo Gambacorta, Anton Korinek, Vatsala Shreeti and Merlin Stein. They analyse how generative AI (GenAI) and emerging AI agents as […]
