Tag: Skills
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The Rising Importance of Fintech Online Courses
Fintech has emerged as a pivotal force fundamentally transforming the financial services industry. The amalgamation of technology and finance is creating new paradigms that were previously thought to be unthinkable. The imperative to understand and navigate this evolving sector has never been more pressing. As the global demand for specialized knowledge in this area surges,…
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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…
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Kodak Moment in Financial Services
Business leaders want to avoid their Kodak moment. That is true for the executive teams of traditional financial institutions. Actually, of any established company. A Kodak moment used to signify “an occasion suitable for memorializing with a photograph“. How cute. And that is how big Kodak was. Now it means missing an industry shift in…
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21 Women in Blockchain You Should Know About
Today is International Women’s Day. To celebrate that, we are going a bit further than just fintech. To the extent that every company will eventually be a fintech company according to Andreessen Horowitz, we actually are always in fintech territory… Today, we recognise the achievements of business leaders and innovators across a range of industries.…
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Top Finance Skills to understand Fintech
It’s very true that Fintech is a lot about tech, as per the little war for talent happening in the industry. So it’s obviously helpful if you have tech skills like coding. However, let’s not forget that we are talking about finance here. Without finance, there is no financial technology. Maybe it seems obvious, but…
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Top 5 books about Finance
If you want to learn more about finance in order to better understand fintech, there are a few books that are must-reads. Even though fintech is actually a lot ‘tech’, you cannot really forget that it is finance after all. Without it, there is no fintech. Therefore, understanding basic financial concepts is quite key, especially…
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Fintechs go to war for talent
It seems that a war for talent is brewing in London, as reported by Sifted. Not any kind of talent, tech talent. And this is not only happening in London, it is also the case in other Fintech hubs like Singapore or Amsterdam. Why would fintechs go to war for talent? We already know that…