Tag: Finance
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An opportunity to create an ecosystem that will allow EU Fintechs to thrive
Guest post by Antonio Lanotte on the EU’s proposed legal framework on AI: how is it an opportunity to create an ecosystem that will allow European fintechs to thrive? Introduction After more than 18 months of the pandemic, there are two main but connected takeaways from the Covid-19. On the one side, the increased importance…
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How Does the Tokenisation of Assets Democratise Finance?
Guest post by Mike Kessler, Founder and CEO of Tokenise, a fully regulated dedicated tokenised stock exchange on a mission to democratise investment through the tokenisation of assets using blockchain technology. Let us begin with why we wanted to improve financial inclusion and democratise finance in the first place. We saw multiple problems with traditional…
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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…
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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,…
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21st Century Wealth Management: Interview with Elisabeth Dana
There is a lot of activity in all parts of the financial services industry. Everything is changing. And it is changing very fast as more companies are coming to the market. At the same time, the industry is awash with VC investments. First, it was a huge wave of innovation in payments that is still…
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Fintech’s New Normal: The Post Pandemic Landscape
This is a guest post by Michael Jaiyeola, Fintech Lead at Erlang Solutions. Erlang is a programming language designed to build massively scalable, soft real-time systems that require high availability. Many of the world’s largest banking, e-commerce and fintech companies depend on Erlang-based technologies to power their tech stack. If you have a system that…
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Bitcoin as a Legal Tender: What Does That Mean for All of Us?
Guest post by Elena Obukhova, founder & CEO at FAS | Fintech Advisory Services. FAS is a global and fully decentralized advisory ecosystem that bridges blockchain and fintech experts from Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America with SMEs willing to evolve in those domains. Bitcoin a legal tender, what does that mean? We all…
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Inflation: Should You Actually Care?
As you might expect, the short answer is yes… but there is obviously a longer explanation. You should care about inflation as an individual, and same goes if you are a business. And notably a fintech one. There is a lot that is being said about inflation these days, with a certain degree of truth.…
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The UK Fintech Landscape
The UK fintech scene is truly thriving. There are a few big fintech hubs around the world… and obviously London is on the list. It has been a major financial centre for quite some time now. That actually predates the modern financial system. And you could very much argue that it even predates the United…
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A Look at the Fintech Job Market: Interview with Ian Stewart
Investments into fintech companies continue to be incredibly strong. A bit as if Covid-19 never happened. Remember, that crazy health crisis that took the world by storm? No particular worrying signs of the pandemic in fintech. This is better exemplified with Stripe’s latest funding round. The payments’ behemoth closed a $600 million Series H funding…