Tag: Payments

  • What’s FinTel? Interview with Andy Hallam

    What’s FinTel? Interview with Andy Hallam

    Everybody hopes that 2021 will be slightly better than the year we have just had. Not that everything was bad, especially for fintech that has proven resilient. Fintechs were not wiped out in numbers by the pandemic. Good startups managed to raise big funding rounds and products hit the market at pace. But before we…

  • Is Covid-19 killing Cash?

    Is Covid-19 killing Cash?

    Everybody has heard the motto “Cash is King” right? But is it really? Or is it slowly dying and Covid-19 will be its final blow? The King is dead, long live the King. It depends on the kind of cash we are actually talking about. Covid-19 might not be killing cash. There are two types…

  • Will Fintechs be wiped out by Coronavirus?

    Will Fintechs be wiped out by Coronavirus?

    The Coronavirus outbreak is disrupting lives across the world and is having a significant impact on the global economy. The damages are expected to be long-lasting, and the recovery very slow, most likely over a number of years. It could accelerate the death of cash. By some accounts, it could be the worst economic crisis…

  • Stripe scores a big funding round, is it surprising?

    Stripe scores a big funding round, is it surprising?

    Stripe, the payments’ processing company, added $600 million to its Series G funding round in April 2020. Yes, Series G is a long way down from a Series A. Venture Capital heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, GV, and Sequoia all participated in the fundraising. You kind of have to given the size of the round.…

  • Top European startups in Fintech: do you know them?

    Top European startups in Fintech: do you know them?

    If you want to work in Fintech today, you will have to choose if you want to work for a bank, perhaps modernizing their tech stack, or at a Fintech company. However, the latter does not mean startup like most people think. Maybe you are not looking for a job and you just want to…