Tag: Finance
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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 2021
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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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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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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Investment Advisory’s Future: Interview with Michael Summerton
The wave of fintech disruption that came after the Great Financial Crisis was strong. Incumbent banks and financial service providers were not in a strong position. And so new companies took the opportunity and emerged. Slowly but surely gaining customers and grabbing market share. Most of that growth was due to superior user experience, surfing […]