Tag: disruption
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How Fintech Big Data Plays a Valuable Role in Financial Evolution
By Timothy Partasevitch, Chief Growth Officer at Smart IT. The emergence of big data in the late 2000s opened a lot of new ways of storing, processing, and managing information. This provided an opportunity to get more value from the data flowing into companies’ systems. Soon big data in Fintech became not only an irreplaceable…
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What is open payroll connectivity? Interview with Maximilian Czymoch
Open payroll connectivity… if that sounds like a very random mix of words, you’ve come to the right place. These words taken individually actually are not so random. Everybody is familiar with payroll and connectivity. And you probably have heard of open finance or open banking. But that’s what we do at Fintech Review, decrypt…
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What role for fintech in climate change? Interview with Chris Peacock
Can fintechs have a meaningful role in fighting climate change? Many people believe so, which makes sense. ESG and fintech is a great combination. If you believe that one of the premises of the emergence of fintech is to do things differently. For the better. You know, not destroying the planet in the process is…
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What Payment Issues Can SMBs Encounter with their Website?
Katie Tejada is a writer, editor, and former HR professional. She often covers developments in HR, business communication, recruiting, real estate, finance and law, but also enjoys writing about travel, interiors and events. Running a Small Business is Hard It’s tricky running a small business, and payment issues should be the last thing you need…
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How tech-savvy fintech startups are transforming investment banking
By iTechArt, a one-stop source for custom software development. Between uncannily smart algorithms, out-of-the-box blockchain solutions, and a world caught by surprise on NFTs, it is easy to get lost. Let’s dive into how the investment banking segment is leveraging technology to innovate in the fintech industry. Enterprises can be notoriously bureaucratic whenever something —…
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2021 Retrospective
Before making any wild predictions for the new year, because obviously one has to make predictions about the fintech industry in 2022, one has to reckon with his past predictions. It is a healthy process that most people do not want to go through. Even though it is quite necessary. Firstly, because most predictions tend…
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Fintech Has a Growing Role in Disrupting These 7 Industries
Devin Partida is a prolific writer about crypto, open banking and fintech for publications like Worth, Due, Yahoo! Finance and Entrepreneur. Few technology fields today are as disruptive as fintech. These unconventional financial apps and services have already reshaped banks, with more than half of Americans using digital banking as of 2018. Still, this is…
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What is happening in DeFi? Interview with Gerben van den Bergh
If you are confused about what decentralized finance is, that’s probably normal. It is fairly new and evolving quite rapidly. However, here is your chance to learn a bit more about this fascinating new development in finance. As Coindesk puts it, “DeFi is short for decentralized finance. An umbrella term for a variety of financial…
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The Top Neobanks in 2023
Article reviewing all the major neobanks around the world by Alex Beck, founder of Clara, a fintech comparison site to help people find and compare the best new finance products. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the trust of consumers for traditional finance has been slashed. Banks for so long charged a host of…
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What next for P2P lending? Interview with Janis Eismonts
Peer-to-peer lending has boomed in recent years, particularly in the US and the UK. And so has the funding funnelled to these companies. It had been also quite popular in China between 2011 and 2015, because lending there was really ripe for disruption. Until we realised that most Chinese P2P lenders were in fact Ponzi…