Sophia Furber is a research analyst in the 451 Research Fintech research and consulting group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Her coverage focuses on Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Sophia has more than a decade of experience as a financial journalist and researcher. Prior to her current role, Sophia was a part of the European Financial Institutions Group, where she spearheaded fintech news coverage for the EMEA region. She has a particular interest in payments, remittances and digital currencies. Prior to commencing her journalism career, Sophia worked as a freelance political risk analyst and served as a long-term observer in Nepal with The Carter Center’s international observation mission during the peace process. She holds an MA in South Asian Area Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Cambridge University.
The company is nearly a year into a leadership change, with Thomas Warsop transitioning to permanent CEO in May 2023. ACI leadership leveraged a recent analyst day to spotlight a commitment to bringing enhanced strategic focus and execution speed to the company.
The UK-headquartered core banking provider offers a cloud-native, scalable and modular core banking platform that can be used by financial service providers ranging from fintechs and neobanks to tier 1 banks. 10x Banking aims to help financial institutions develop and deploy products rapidly in order to provide seamless digital experiences for the end customer.
Artificial intelligence and the fight against fraud were high on the fintech agenda at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which drew over 101,000 attendees and more than 2,700 exhibitors from the telecom and related industries. Meanwhile, the shine has come off embedded finance.
Mobile World Congress is back, with 100,000-plus attendees and a worldview that has expanded beyond telecom to fully encompass the best of telco, IT and enterprise technology, from telco to techco. In this report, 451 Research and Kagan Research analysts share their high-level perspectives on the event.
The Icelandic SaaS AI fintech provides software that aims to cut the time banks and fintechs spend on financial crime investigations. Lucinity's platform provides compliance teams with actionable insight into customer behavior, with a view to simplifying complex data and upskilling employees.
The startup is aiming to enable banks and fintechs to pool information on bad actors as part of a holistic approach to fighting crime. Its core compliance products include screening, transaction monitoring and risk scoring. The functionality of these tools is enhanced by Salv's information-sharing platform, Bridge.
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