As the passion economy grows and offers people fresh and flexible ways of making money by building businesses around what they love, is the industry ready to offer services to this smaller-sized, but fast-growing segment of the corporate market?

Revolutionary change is sometimes hard to understand – but we are on the cusp of a new reality.

Fintech investments on the African continent exceeded $1.35bn last year. The question now is whether a lack of incumbent legacy systems can help propel the sector further.

Forrester’s annual predictions report forecasts an array of new digital offerings next year and that regulators will get tough on ESG classifications.

India’s mobile payments market is forecast to grow 41% annually and be worth more than $2bn by 2024, fuelling a surge in fintech start-ups gaining unicorn status.

As a decentralised open-source blockchain with smart-contract functionality, Ethereum holds enormous promise for the financial services industry.

Beyond retail banking and payments lies investment and commercial banking, the next frontier for fintechs looking to disrupt the status quo.

Any form of disability can act as a barrier to accessing financial services without the right guidelines, procedures and technologies in place.

Benchmark your organisation against peers by participating in this survey to gauge where core banking operations are on the digitisation journey.

Financial services foreign direct investment rose in 2020 despite the pandemic and has remained robust this year on the back of generous state support.