TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION IN CAPITAL MARKETS

whitePaper | February 15, 2022

For years, shoppers in Europe and Asia have been paying with contactless methods such as mobile wallets and contactless cards. While U.S. consumers have traditionally been slow to adopt this payment method, they’ve recently begun making up for that delay.

whitePaper | March 10, 2020

FinTech Futures has launched its latest report on cloud transformation in the financial services industry. As we enter a decade of innovation and change, financial institutions are facing a myriad of challenges in the form of shifting customer expectations, emerging technologies and alternative business models. Perhaps its best solution is to look to a form of technology that was making disruptive waves in the sector more than a decade ago: cloud computing.

whitePaper | May 12, 2022

Over the past couple of years, our Collections practice at 2nd Order Solutions has expanded to not just include large banks and credit card issuers, but an increasing number of fintechs, both in the US and abroad. The fintech sector has grown tremendously over the last 2-3 years, and as their customer bases have grown larger, there is an increasing mandate to focus on default management, especially with delinquencies beginning to rise. This paper highlights emerging trends and recommends immediate focus areas for fintech leaders to quickly strengthen Collections practices.

whitePaper | May 1, 2023

Coordinating regulatory frameworks across jurisdictions is a complex task for almost any sector. With crypto-assets – given the unique features of the underlying technology as well as the boundless opportunities that it presents – it is often contended that global coordination is not just desirable but necessary.

whitePaper | April 1, 2023

“Banking is necessary; banks are not,” said Bill Gates in 1994. As financial services become increasingly embedded into everyday life, the truth of this statement has never been clearer. Customers are increasingly accessing financial services through channels other than the bank. Embedded finance is changing the banking landscape and is expected to have an estimated market value $138 billion by 2026, according to Juniper Research.

whitePaper | May 19, 2023

The big banks have not had an easy time of things recently. Already facing plenty of challenges from the likes of challenger banks, fintech, regulation and technologies like cryptocurrencies, the pandemic forced the pace of change to grow even faster.