Innovation is essential to ensure payments keep pace with consumer demand and to enable merchants to find new ways to engage and serve customers. However, to ensure that innovative new payment methods are introduced and their benefits are realized by both consumers and businesses, payment decision-makers are reluctant to take the plunge and adopt new
With two consecutive quarters of negative growth, we are by definition in a recession. The next question is, will it be light or heavy? While signs are currently pointing to a mild recession and a “light landing,” which is the ideal outcome, the advertising industry has taken a hit. Regardless of what we’re going through,
As we all know, integrated finance refers to the integration of financial services into non-financial products and services, such as retail websites, mobile apps, and even physical products. In other words, it is making financial services more accessible and convenient for consumers by integrating them with the products and services they already use. Over the
In recent years, fintech is on the rise and with the growing demand for digital solutions to manage financial services, this trend is expected to continue through 2023. There is a growing need for digital solutions to manage financial services. the size of the global fintech market is predicted to total $305 billion by 2023.
What is Finance & Development? F&D is the most-read magazine of the IMF. It focuses on issues related to macroeconomics, development and finance. It is editorially independent and has been authored both within and outside the Foundation. Articles are published online throughout the year, and a subset of articles appear in our quarterly print edition
Fintech companies have been storming emerging markets for a while. In Latin America, for example, innovations have made it possible for unbanked people to access the financial services they have long awaited. And as mobile adoption has surged in recent years in Africa and Asia-Pacific, new payment solutions have emerged to serve the traditionally excluded.
Account-based marketing (ABM) has gained traction in recent years, and according to LinkedIn, 84% of marketers say ABM helps maintain and grow existing relationships significantly. Ultimately, an organization implementing an ABM strategy must be able to understand each person behind an account, because that individual-level understanding is critical to executing with the surgical precision that
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The Finance Division of the UBC Sauder School of Business is delighted to host its annual summer conference in Vancouver on July 24 to July 26, 2025. We are pleased to continue our tradition of welcoming a small gathering of top academics in the field of Finance. Read More
Companies in the financial sector can leverage artificial intelligence to analyze and manage data from multiple sources to provide valuable insights. These innovative results help banks overcome the challenges they face on a daily basis while providing day-to-day services such as loan management or payment processing. Let’s now look at some AI-driven FinTech innovation use
In today’s tough economic climate, it is certain that clients are looking for ways to minimize their costs whenever possible in the face of the increasing cost of living. Banks have a key role to play in supporting consumers and especially the most vulnerable who are struggling to pay for basic necessities like rent, energy
Financial services are the backbone of the economy and data is central to its operations. In this white paper industry experts from Amazon Web Services and Tableau describe why and how financial services institutions are adopting modern cloud analytics to: Meet compliance objectives, Process data efficiently, Improve customer experience; Increase productivity, and Create new revenue
Financial institutions and entrepreneurs have a complicated historical relationship. Entrepreneurs need the means to finance their businesses and stay afloat, which means they rely on banks for everything from business loans to checking accounts. And banks need entrepreneurs too. Without small businesses driving the economy, there’s not many banks can do. This (sometimes reluctant) codependency
