Aging paytech stacks are a resource drain on traditional financial institutions. According to research done with IDC, 73% of financial institutions (FIs) have payments infrastructures that are not well equipped to handle payments for 2023 and beyond. Because of this, $250 billion in payments revenue will…
As we question the future of payments and where to even begin, gamers may hold the answers on where we should start. Believe it or not, video games are acting as a catalyst for broader adoption of alternative ways to store and transfer value. Gamers…
What are you most proud of from 2021? “After securing our Series B funding in February, we rapidly accelerated our growth in 3 areas: our global team, our client footprint, and the payments use cases supported across the globe. We’ve tripled our headcount and continue…
Mastercard today welcomes its newest wave of startups to its award-winning Start Path startup engagement program. Start Path alums share their insights into the top trends of 2021 and what they’ve learned from a challenging year. READ MORE
Users will have more choice in Web 3.0 than they do on the internet today. READ MORE
This talk featured Ravi Patel, Head of Partnerships, Episode Six and Cyrus Daruwala, Managing Director – Financial Services & FinTech, IDC as speakers. The issue at hand was a recent report that, by 2030, 60% of global consumers will have made a transaction using a unit of value other than fiat…
If financial services are going to balance inclusion, innovation, user experience, profitability and consumer protection, competitors will need to work together. READ MORE
Multiple trends have arisen following the pandemic’s acceleration of digitisation. Contactless limits have been expanded, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has seen a huge influx of customers, regulatory standards have been adjusted and generally, there has been huge amounts of innovation in paytech. READ MORE
The adoption of digitisation in trade finance has been something of a “slow burn” as practices have historically relied on the transfer of paper documents between involved parties and largely manual processes. This vitally important area of financial services has trailed behind the digitisation progress…
Real-time analytics is at a tipping point within the financial services industry with its full potential likely to be fully realised by banks within the next few years. Data in and of itself is not necessarily the king. Rather, it is what organisations can do…
AUSTIN, TX / ACCESSWIRE / March 25, 2021 /Episode Six, the global provider of modern payment processing and banking infrastructure, today announced its expansion into the U.S. healthtech market – a sector ripe for innovation with healthcare expenditure hitting nearly $3.7 trillion in 2018, per…
Digital payment firms are prime for open banking partnershipsWith the rise of so-called neobanks, or digital-native financial institutions that are born out of the cloud, legacy FIs must be attuned to emerging competition set to capture the next generation of financial services consumers. Further, they…