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Pride month is about celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and increasing discussions around equality. However, support from the community should not just be localised for that month, it should be consistent throughout the year. The FinTech market has often boasted itself as being at the forefront of change, but what is the sector like for the LGBTQ+ community?

Most companies lack the tools and mitigation plans to handle imminent attacks, Kocho helps them fix this.

The level of uncertainty financial institutions have for third-party cyber risk is worrying. Firms have no idea how a company accesses their network and the back doors left open for criminals. CyberGRX was created to fix this.  

Payment data, particularly on the client-side, is extremely vulnerable. PCI DSS 4.0 hopes to bring more protections, but what will its impact be? Feroot Security CEO Ivan Tsarynny has some thoughts.

There have never been more regulatory pressures for financial institutions than there are now, and it is only getting harder. Every year, regulators release a new batch of legislation or updates to existing mandates, all of which firms need to keep up with.

Although more women are entering the FinTech industry, their representation in leadership positions is lacking. Female executives in the industry provide their thoughts on how much of the blame lies with society, and what those hoping to break glass ceilings can do about it.

To mark International Women’s Day, FinTech Global spoke to a number of successful women in senior positions in the industry about their careers, challenges they’ve encountered, and what can be done to achieve great gender equality in the FinTech industry.

Cloud Insurance started life after a string of coincidences. Axel Sjøstedt was studying at university and to help pay the student financing he did some tech consulting on the side.

Sparebanken Møre, a Norwegian savings bank, hopes to become a leading player in the wealth management space. To achieve this, it is working with TietoEVRY and its WealthMapper solution.

The insurance sector has changed quite a bit over the past years; however, it is currently undertaking its biggest ever transformation - the shift towards a fully personalised approach towards the consumers, and usage-based insurance (UBI) as a prominent example of that shift.