Tag: Banking
How do you Build a Fintech App?
Guest post by Vitaly Kuprenko, technical writer at Cleveroad, a web and mobile app development company in Ukraine. He enjoys writing about tech innovations and digital ways to boost businesses. Financial technologies are an up-and-coming field. Statistics show that the fintech market is forecasted to pass $325 billion by 2030. Fintech is in demand nowadays…
What next for innovation in banking? Interview with Dmitrii Barbasura
No matter what you can hear or read, innovating is incredibly hard. That’s true for both large and small companies. The vast majority of startups do not survive more than a few years. Incumbents try hard to spin-off new ventures, which sometimes end in massive and expensive failures. Like RBS and its digital bank, Bó,…
Cleaning up the Digital Ecosystem
Guest post by Ro Paddock, Head of Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) at digital identity specialist Fourthline. Global lockdowns forced all sectors of society to find new, technologically driven ways of continuing daily activities. The result is threefold: a permanent reshaping of consumer behaviour, a resetting of expectations and an acceleration towards digitalising everything from commerce and…
The Rise of Identity Access Management, IAM, in Fintech
This is a guest post by Devin Partida, a prolific writer about crypto, open banking and fintech for publications like Worth, Due, Yahoo! Finance and Entrepreneur. The fintech industry is no stranger to innovation, often far outpacing other sectors in adopting new technologies. As fintech firms attempt to balance agility and security, new tech tools…
The Fintech Revolution: Opportunities & Challenges in 2021
Guest post by Sophia Tondon, IT Analyst & Technical Writer at Value Coders. Fintech is an essential part of modern finance. The traditional understanding of financial services has changed. Fintech has brought opportunities for people to enjoy the convenience and speed of managing their financial lives. In addition, it has enormous potential to improve global…
How to Use Content to Power Your Fintech Story and Increase Sales
Guest post by Vivek Shankar, who helps fintech and SaaS companies craft the right words to communicate product stories that resonate with their audiences. Say hello here. Back in 2002, Volkswagen announced the launch of a luxury sedan that was faster, better looking, more economical, and powerful than its rivals. Not content with its product…
How can APIs transform lending? Interview with Nick Chandi
The financial world is being transformed very fast. Innovators are disrupting the status quo and challenging how incumbents are doing business. Anybody would have obviously realised that. Even if you do not spend as much time keeping an eye on what is going on. As some of us do, maybe a bit too much. The…
10 Startups Showcase at UK-Ukraine FinTech Summit
On July 15, 2021 Sigma Software together with the Embassy of Ukraine in the UK, TheCityUK, and the London Stock Exchange held the first UK-Ukraine Fintech Summit. The main objective was to inform a British audience about the potential of the Ukrainian fintech industry. As well as finding common ground for future partnerships. Government representatives,…
Wealth Management: Why is JP Morgan Acquiring Nutmeg?
Big news in UK wealth management: JP Morgan is acquiring the digital wealth manager Nutmeg. It seems that the U.S. banking giant has big plans for the UK, as it has been slowly but surely working on a digital bank for a few years already. It is due to launch later this year, and the…
Having a great fintech idea doesn’t matter…
That’s not a click-bait headline. Maybe just a little to get your attention. But it’s true: having a great idea doesn’t matter so much in the business world. Even though, actually, it is a bit more nuanced. Having an idea indeed matters, but much less than its execution. What that really means is that you…
