Sergei Artimenia

Oct 17, 2023 | finextra.com | Rosemary Barnes |Janine Grainger |Sergei Artimenia

Financial transactions could soon be as straightforward as sending a text, thanks to the transformative power of blockchain technology. Both industry insiders and regulatory bodies are keenly exploring how blockchain can overhaul existing financial systems, and even replace traditional infrastructures that handle international payments and remittances. Just consider the recent milestone in August 2023 when PayPal launched its own stablecoin, PayPal USD, pegged to the U.S. dollar.

Oct 15, 2023 | finextra.com | Janine Grainger |Sergei Artimenia |Abhinav Paliwal |Rajat Deshpande

In March 2021, crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi made headlines globally when he spent $2.9m on a non-fungible token (NFT) of the first tweet from the former Twitter boss Jack Dorsey. Fast forward to 2023 and The Guardian and other platforms are reporting that “researchers estimate 23 million people hold worthless investments” in these digital tokens. In recent years, you may have heard the buzz surrounding NFTs, or non-fungible tokens.

Oct 12, 2023 | finextra.com | Dmitriy Wolkenstein |Sergei Artimenia

News in your inbox For Finextra's free daily newsletter, breaking news and flashes and weekly job board. Channels Group External | what does this mean? This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. When I start working on creating a test strategy for an application, one of the biggest impacting factors that I need to consider is the application domain.

Oct 12, 2023 | finextra.com | Dmitriy Wolkenstein |Sergei Artimenia

If you want data to bring real value, you should consider how it is stored and processed. Being obliged to follow the ever-changing regulations of national banks and ministries of finance, banks require proper data management. Central repositories of banks' data, called data warehouses, must ensure this appropriate data management. However, most banks still host their DWHs on-premises and use legacy technology, which makes it costly to handle data and scale it as needed.

Oct 11, 2023 | finextra.com | Harriet Christie |Keith Berry |Patrick Devlin |Sergei Artimenia

While communications surveillance has become a more pressing requirement in recent years, the truth is that most of the current generation of platforms was built 20 years ago. Society has changed a lot since then, both in terms of our technological capabilities and the ways in which we communicate. It’s important that compliance tools keep up with the world they are built to regulate.