Monday Conversation news and trends

Exclusive: Markaaz Introduces Global Business Identity Platform
Monday Meetup // May 06, 2024

A new global business identity platform is on the scene, enabling banks, FinTechs and enterprises to verify and onboard businesses of all sizes, particularly smaller businesses. Four years and hundreds of millions of data points in the making, Markaaz has a unique, two-sided business model...

How Fortune 500 CFOs Are Turning Cross-Border Compliance Into a Growth Engine
Business // April 29, 2024

Nothing dulls the enterprise risk appetite like uncertainty. And for today’s businesses, the focus remains on navigating the threats of recession, cybersecurity risks and pressure to demonstrate sustainable profitability. But mitigating risk doesn’t have to mean abandoning growth opportunities — it just means that investments...

This Thirty-Year AI Expert Challenges the Notion That AI Can Think
artificial intelligence // April 22, 2024

There are people who say they are an AI expert and there’s Akli Adjaoute. He was on the case early in the technology’s lifecycle and brings a unique, grounded perceptive to its current and future usage honed over three decades of expertise. He is currently...

Rewards Network CEO Says Restaurants Need Data-Driven Approach
Loyalty & Rewards // April 08, 2024

Forty years ago, shoulder pads and high tops ruled fashion. Tina Turner and Madonna ruled the airwaves. The original movie version of “Dune” was in theatres (and it’s déjà vu all over again on that last one in 2024). Back in 1984, Rewards Network launched a platform...

Interviews & Exclusives
15-Year-Olds Are Reshaping Banking and Credit, and Changes Are on the Way

May 09, 2022
The Bank of Mom & Dad (BOMD) isn’t just a sitcom line. One analysis found that parents lent their kids a collective $47 billion in 2019, mostly in the form of down payments on first homes. What if those first-time homebuyers had become financial ninjas at 15? They might not have needed that humbling BOMD […]

Undocumented, Unbanked Consumers Turn to Data-Rich Finance Allies for Auto Loans

March 14, 2022
There’s no consensus on the number of undocumented people living and working in the U.S. Estimates vary widely, from just under 12 million to more than 20 million. Even critics...

Hands-On Approach Helps Indian Firm Convince Consumers to Go Cashless

March 07, 2022
It’s become conventional wisdom to assume that the pandemic has made us all experts in digital commerce, navigating our devices with aplomb, clicking and buying and having things delivered to...

Indexes Offer Framework for Tracking Connected Economy, Other Macro Investment Themes

February 14, 2022
The internet is almost as pervasive in our lives as, well, breathing. With mobile devices in hand — and with voice-activated assistants, wearables with headsets, videos and apps — virtually...