Andrew Samu

A UBS survey from a few months ago said that 53% of business owners supported Trump. A few weeks later a Yale report showed that 77% of business leaders would be voting for Joe Biden. Only one thing is for sure, the country is clearly divided.

#DisruptionChat Quants

Talking about The Quant Conference (virtually) with Nikita Fadeev

October 27, 2020

#DisruptionBanking spoke with Nikita Fadeev, Founder of The Quant Conference and Portfolio Manager at Fasanara Digital, about the changing quantitative landscape, the fight for talent and the rise of crypto amongst quants.

#DisruptionChat Capital Markets Regulator

Talking about the Digital Twin of an Organization and Modelling with Olga Venosa from EQV

October 22, 2020

EQV's Sphera has been classified as a Digital Twin of an Organization type of product. The Digital Twin of an Organization is the capability of a system to be able to replicate all the processes of an organization.

Blockchain

#DeFi, Dapps and DEX – the new world of the Stablecoin YOU need to know about

October 20, 2020

It is beyond doubt that this intense activity focused on the DeFi platform will draw the eye of the regulator. When there is just a few million dollars like their was in most of 2019, the Year of DeFi according to some, this is still probably some new form of ICO in the eyes of the regulator. Today, with billions of dollars trading in the last few weeks, it might not be long before the regulator or tax office steps in

PayTech

Qatar Fintech Accelerator & Sync. expands into the Middle East

October 14, 2020

More than 350 Fintechs expressed their interest in the Qatar Fintech Accelerator, run by the Qatar Development Bank and Qatar Fintech Hub

#DisruptionChat Investment Banking Regulator

Talking about Regulations & Technology with NICE Actimize

October 5, 2020

"The answers are very rarely inside the building," Lee shares, going on to explain that the team at NICE Actimize: "Meet with customers to understand the problems that they are facing, the challenges that they have, and then from that determine comprehensive interesting solutions that can add value in the market."

Capital Markets

“Approved for Business” in China, and Ant Group’s $35 billion IPO

September 29, 2020

Fang went on to reveal that offshore investors hold $294bn of stocks in circulation. Including all investment through other channels as well, foreign investors own just 4.69% of Chinese stocks in circulation. In comparison, international investors own roughly 30% of Japanese and South Korean stocks.

Banking

#backtowork But is it Business as Usual?

September 17, 2020

Deutsche Bank in New York showed a different approach to the anxiety of junior staff by telling all employees they can keep working at home until July 2021.

Artificial Intelligence Regulator

The Regulator and the Algorithms

September 15, 2020

In August, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission took severe action against Bank of Nova Scotia, leading to fines of over $125 million in total.

Investment Banking Regulator

Can RegTech solve the Technology needs of the post-Covid Trading Floor?

September 10, 2020

An equity trader throws client documents into a home office wastepaper basket, making a mental note to deal with its proper disposal later; a front-office salesperson unknowingly discusses confidential information in earshot of a roommate, who happens to work at a competing dealer; a bond trader working remotely leaves their computer unlocked and steps out to run an errand, and another house member quickly uses the computer to access the Internet, unaware that “hotkeys” are enabled, resulting in unintentional buying and selling of various securities; and a financial adviser, frustrated at being unable to dial into a recorded phone line, gives up and calls the client using his personal mobile phone.

#DisruptionChat

Talking about UX Design with Ergomania from Hungary

September 7, 2020

Revolut is still one of the benchmarks for UX Design in both Banking and Fintech, whilst companies such as Bunq are also leaders. Andras Rung from Ergomania explains this in more detail in our #DisruptionChat this week.

Fintech

The Rising Tide of Lending – A Market Recovery Mechanism

August 31, 2020

With the help from the FinTech sector, and more than 250 lending platforms worldwide, it is possible to ease the crisis and soften the financial challenges that this catastrophe has brought to the table.

#DisruptionChat Fintech PayTech

Talking about the Second Wave of Challenger Banks with Sync.Money

August 27, 2020

“If you have a good product, users will come” Ricky shared with #DisruptionBanking. It's been around a year since they first started onboarding customers and what a great story to hear about their latest funding round:

Events USA

Venture Summit Virtual Connect 3 (November 17 – 19)

August 26, 2020

#DisruptionBanking doesn't support many events, but the events that we do support are some of the best in global Fintech. One of our longest partners are the team at youngStartup Ventures who run several Venture Capital summits every year.

#DisruptionChat

Talking about ‘Neos’ and Data in Australia with Backbase

August 21, 2020

#DisruptionChat USA

Talking about FynCom with RoboCash from California

August 19, 2020

A NanoDeposit is a smaller amount of cash exchanged for access to a person’s time, with the intent of being immediately refunded for relevant conversations.

Andrew Samu

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