Fundamentals
Understand the core concepts driving fintech, crypto, digital banking, and innovation. Fintech Review explains the fundamentals behind financial technology to help readers, founders, and professionals navigate an evolving financial and digital world.
Fintech Review: A Complete Guide
Welcome to the Fintech Review guide, our definitive source for everything fintech. Over the years, we’ve covered a broad range of fintech topics, from digital banking to decentralised finance, regtech, green fintech, and more. Through interviews, opinion pieces, and sector-specific deep dives, we’ve helped readers understand where fintech is today and where it’s going. This…
How Fintech Apps Are Improving Financial Literacy Among Young People
In recent years, fintech apps have become pivotal in shaping financial literacy among Millennials and Gen Z. These innovative platforms, often mobile-first and user-friendly, simplify complex financial topics. Through interactive tools and easy-to-use interfaces, fintech companies educate young users on personal finance, budgeting, and investing. Traditional methods of financial education often failed to engage younger…
The Impact of Quantum Computing on Fintech Security Protocols
Quantum computing uses quantum physics to perform computations far faster than classical computers. This emerging technology holds particular relevance for fintech, which relies heavily on encryption to secure transactions and data. Researchers warn that powerful quantum computers could one day crack traditional encryption methods in a feasible time. In other words, problems that would take…
The Crucial Role of Product-Market Fit in Fintech
In the ever-evolving world of fintech, where technology meets finance, the competition is fierce. New startups emerge daily, each promising revolutionary solutions. However, many of these businesses fade away, and one primary reason is their failure to achieve a pivotal business milestone: product-market fit. Let’s delve into why product-market fit is vital in fintech, ensuring…
5 Advice to Fintech Founders
The fintech sector is buzzing with innovations, providing ample opportunities for new entrants to make a significant impact. As a space that merges finance with technology, it’s an exciting yet challenging arena. If you are among the burgeoning number of fintech founders, ensuring that you navigate this complex landscape successfully is crucial. This article lays…
5 Things to Consider Before Starting a Fintech Business
Starting a fintech business in today’s challenging albeit rapidly evolving digital environement is an enticing prospect. The industry has seen unprecedented growth, with innovative solutions addressing age-old financial problems and modern challenges alike. However, like any entrepreneurial venture, starting a fintech business is not without its set of challenges. Here are five key things to…
5 Mistakes Fintech Entrepreneurs Often Make
The fintech industry is booming, offering immense opportunities to innovate and transform traditional financial services. As technology and finance intertwine, fintech entrepreneurs are stepping forward to redefine the way we handle money, investments, loans, and more. Yet, as with any fast-growing industry, there are pitfalls awaiting the unwary. Here are five common mistakes fintech entrepreneurs…
The Rising Importance of Fintech Online Courses
Fintech has emerged as a pivotal force fundamentally transforming the financial services industry. The amalgamation of technology and finance is creating new paradigms that were previously thought to be unthinkable. The imperative to understand and navigate this evolving sector has never been more pressing. As the global demand for specialized knowledge in this area surges,…
Why Fintech Companies Need to Define a Clear Strategy
In the often crazy world of financial technology, startups and incumbents are in a (rat) race to provide innovative solutions. Hopefully, solutions that address actual gaps and inefficiencies in the traditional banking system. However, in the haste to innovate and disrupt, many fintech companies overlook the fundamental principle of business success: a well-defined strategy. Without…
Why Fintech Review is launching online courses: the Fintech 101 Series
Fintech Review still has the same mission as when it launched in January 2020. What continues to guide us is this strong desire to understand what is going in fintech around the world. Share our views on what is shaping finance today and what will happen tomorrow. It also means bringing everybody with us in…
Best practices for Fintech Founders: Time to Get Your Strategy Right
It is tough out there. Funding for fintech is falling across the globe. Effective strategy execution can prove to be a hard task. Especially in challenging environments where unpredictability and rapid change are the norms. Did you know that according to a recent survey by OKRmentors and Quantive, nearly half of companies believe that they…
Do Fintechs Have to Be Profitable?
Do fintechs have to be profitable? Yes and no. That’s it, end of the article. Thank you very much and see you later. If only. It would be easy in life if it was just about saying “yes but no“, wouldn’t it? Or answering every question with “maybe“. However, as most things, it is not…
An Introduction to Investment Portfolio Management
An introduction to investment portfolio management, the concept developed by Harry Markowitz…
Why Financial Education Matters Now More Than Ever…
In very simple terms, financial education can make the difference between making a good and a bad financial decision. Why does it matter now more than ever? Because we are in a relatively good business and economic environment. That’s a good thing, right? Yes, of course. And that is relatively surprising given that we are…
Top Finance Skills to understand Fintech
It’s very true that Fintech is a lot about tech, as per the little war for talent happening in the industry. So it’s obviously helpful if you have tech skills like coding. However, let’s not forget that we are talking about finance here. Without finance, there is no financial technology. Maybe it seems obvious, but…
Top 5 Books About Finance
If you want to learn more about finance in order to better understand fintech, there are a few books that are must-reads. Even though fintech is actually a lot ‘tech’, you cannot really forget that it is finance after all. Without it, there is no fintech. Therefore, understanding basic financial concepts is quite key, especially…
Blockchain and Crypto, Know the Difference!
Let’s clear a common mistake. Probably the biggest misconception in technology and finance that there is nowadays. There tends to be lots of confusion between blockchain and crypto (abbreviation of cryptocurrency). The confusion stems from the fact that the former powers the latter. You need to know the difference though: many people use these two…
What is Regulatory Technology or RegTech?
The demand in terms of compliance is ever-increasing within the financial services industry. As a classic example of efficient market dynamics, it means that a number of innovative RegTech startups, such as Pichain, seized this opportunity and started to flourish to meet those demands. To put it simply, RegTech is a combination of the words…
What is Financial Technology?
Let’s start from the beginning. What do we really mean when we talk about Fintech? You will have obviously noticed that it is a very trendy topic these days. You will have read all about it in the press or elsewhere for sure. What is Financial Technology, better known Fintech then? To start with, Fintech…
