HABIBMETRO Bank has selected BPC’s SmartVista platform to support its next stage of payments modernisation in Pakistan. The Karachi-based bank, formally Habib Metropolitan Bank, will use SmartVista to enhance its issuing capabilities, strengthen transaction processing and support new digital payment services. HABIBMETRO is one of Pakistan’s top trade finance banks and operates more than 560 […]
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The traditional US community bank is facing a structural crisis, choked by Net Interest Margin compression and carrying a staggering median Commercial Real Estate (CRE) concentration of 195%. Seeking to move beyond the traditional private equity playbook is Building Better Banks (BBB), a turnaround model designed to restore structural health to the sub-$5B banking sector. […]
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The following looks at the fintech, digital and wider economic development of small Western European nation of Liechtenstein. At first glance, Liechtenstein would appear an unlikely contender in the global fintech landscape. With a population of fewer than 40,000 people and a territory covering just 160 square kilometres between Switzerland and Austria, the principality lacks […]
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As the global financial technology ecosystem convenes for Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, a definitive piece of industry research has mapped out the shifting tectonic plates of the continent’s money movement landscape. Produced via a strategic partnership between Money20/20 and cross-border payments data leader FXC Intelligence, the report, titled “Europe’s Cross Border Payments Crossroads: The Current […]
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Marking a definitive milestone in its two-decade evolution from a legacy FX brokerage into a high-growth fintech powerhouse, IFX Payments has announced a major corporate restructure live at the Money20/20 conference. The service-led alternative banking partner detailed a multi-front scale-up strategy, introducing a greenfield rebuild of its signature payments platform, a reshuffled C-suite lineup, and […]
Explore MoreEvent organiser Tahaluf is collaborating with regional financial institutions to showcase how the four cohort winners of the Money20/20 MEA MoneySurge pitch competition are accelerating the deployment of institutional financial infrastructure across the Middle East and North Africa. The competition, which distributed a share of a $400,000 prize pool to early-stage founders, has served as […]
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How is the Baltic nation of Latvia reinventing its financial identity? In particular with its linkages to wider economic development? For much of the post-Soviet era, Latvia’s financial sector was known internationally for a very different reason than fintech. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the country developed a significant banking industry that served international […]
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In a milestone moment for the British financial landscape, a powerful consortium of the UK’s largest clearing banks and fintech disruptors has joined forces to launch the UK Payments Initiative Ltd (UKPI). Announced live on stage at Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam, the venture represents the first completely new payment scheme established in the UK since […]
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The cost of this fraud? 0.5% of the subsidiary’s turnover. It could have been stopped by identifying weak signals before the damage became significant. How Internal Collusion Turns Weak Controls into Major Losses This type of in-house complicity can carry on for years. In most cases, fraud goes undetected for 12 months or more before […]
Explore MoreThe following looks at the fintech, digital and wider economic development of Europe’s fourth largest economy, Italy, in 2026. Italy is often associated with history, culture, fashion and manufacturing excellence. From the banking houses of Renaissance Florence to the industrial districts of Lombardy, finance and commerce have played a central role in the country’s development […]
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