Tag: disruption
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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…
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How Supply Chain Fintech is Revolutionizing Logistics
Devin Partida is a prolific writer about crypto, open banking and fintech for publications like Worth, Due, Yahoo! Finance and Entrepreneur. The fintech industry is developing many supply chain tools that should make logistics more efficient and overcome some persistent challenges. Here are six specific ways fintech products are emerging as game-changers in logistics. 1.…
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SaaS & Fintech: What Makes This Tandem So Desirable?
This is a guest post on SaaS & Fintech by Slava Podmurnyi is the CEO & Co-Founder of Visartech Inc., a software product development agency that creates custom digital solutions for all-sized businesses operating in various industries. At present, most of the consumer apps are in fact SaaS. An acronym for Software-as-a-Service, this model started its…
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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…
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The Reason Why China Will Fail at Banning Bitcoin Again…
Guest post by Elena Obukhova, Founder & CEO at FAS | Fintech Advisory Services All the news outlets are saying China banned Bitcoin, but does this ban actually change anything? Let’s start with remembering what Bitcoin is. It is a decentralized peer-to-peer currency that was designed to give people financial freedom. The immutability of Bitcoin…
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The Many Wonders of Digital Banking
This is a guest post by Ugo Juliet, a fintech and SaaS writer who helps businesses reach out to their target audience using content. For many bank customers, it’s been a long time since they set foot in a banking hall. Yet, they have been performing so many financial services’ transactions, all thanks to the…
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Bitcoin as a Widespread Payment Option? Interview with Sung Choi
Have you heard of Bitcoin? You need to read this with a sarcastic tone, obviously. The most famous cryptocurrency has been at the centre of all the financial news for quite some time. However, this has been more linked to its interest as a speculative investment or store of value. Depending on whom you ask.…
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High-Risk Customers are Driving the Growth in Fintech
This is a guest post by Kathy Romanovskaya, CEO & Founder of A.ID, a compliance-as-a-service company. Financial technology may have revolutionized the way we deliver financial services… but traditional banks still shape the cooperation in the new economy. It is especially visible in high-risk segments, which are growing by day and becoming a considerable market…
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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…
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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…