Editorial

The July 2021 issue of SFF Magazine is already out ! Click on the following link to read and/or download the PDF version.
The financial services industry is in the midst of a transformation. Changes in customer preferences, increased regulation, as well as a growing focus on sustainability, digitalisation and globalisation, are some of the drivers of this paradigm shift. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a clear accelerator of…
According to the report “Impacto, innovación y tendencias Fintech” (“Impact, innovation and Fintech trends”), prepared by the firm Finnovating last year, Spain ranks sixth in the world in the ranking of countries that host Fintech start-ups. With more than 400 Fintechs in Spain, the country’s ecosystem…
Bigle Legal is an end-to-end document management and automation software company. The company was born in 2016 to develop an in-house technology and provide a solution to all the problems of manual paperwork management.With Bigle Legal, users can complete the entire life cycle of a…
Financial technology innovation in Luxembourg has accelerated rapidly since the turn of the millennium. This growth in the use of new technologies applied to finance has been led both by players in the sector who have been established in the Grand Duchy for decades, and…
Working in the asset management industry and managing translations that were too urgent or too technical to be outsourced to translation agencies, the founders of Lingua Custodia felt there was a need to optimise this process and develop an effective, intelligent, user friendly and secure…
Over the last five years, clients, competition, disruptors, central banks and regulators have been urging banks to transform their cost structure, by leveraging technology to overcome operating efficiency and resilience issues inherent to the industry since the last financial crisis. When combined with the pressure…
Spain was one of the first countries to establish a regulatory framework for private equity firms and their management companies through Law 1/1999. This Law was repealed following the entry into force of Directive 2011/61/EU in 2011 on European Alternative Investment Fund Managers, with the…
Alfonso López Canellas NOVA Casiopea RE “The insurance sector is undergoing a deep transformation process. A sector that has historically been characterised by its traditional processes is experiencing a digital explosion thanks to Insurtechs and the growing funding they are receiving. From the first Insurtechs that…