Tag: Startups

  • What next for P2P lending? Interview with Janis Eismonts

    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…

  • The Many Wonders of Digital Banking

    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…

  • High-Risk Customers are Driving the Growth in Fintech

    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…

  • What next for innovation in banking? Interview with Dmitrii Barbasura

    What next for innovation in banking? Interview with Dmitrii Barbasura

    No matter what you can hear or read, innovating is incredibly hard. That’s true for both large and small companies. The vast majority of startups do not survive more than a few years. Incumbents try hard to spin-off new ventures, which sometimes end in massive and expensive failures. Like RBS and its digital bank, Bó,…

  • The Fintech Revolution: Opportunities & Challenges in 2021

    The Fintech Revolution: Opportunities & Challenges in 2021

    Guest post by Sophia Tondon, IT Analyst & Technical Writer at Value Coders. Fintech is an essential part of modern finance. The traditional understanding of financial services has changed. Fintech has brought opportunities for people to enjoy the convenience and speed of managing their financial lives. In addition, it has enormous potential to improve global…

  • How to Use Content to Power Your Fintech Story and Increase Sales

    How to Use Content to Power Your Fintech Story and Increase Sales

    Guest post by Vivek Shankar, who helps fintech and SaaS companies craft the right words to communicate product stories that resonate with their audiences. Say hello here. Back in 2002, Volkswagen announced the launch of a luxury sedan that was faster, better looking, more economical, and powerful than its rivals. Not content with its product…

  • 10 Startups Showcase at UK-Ukraine FinTech Summit

    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,…

  • Fintech’s New Normal: The Post Pandemic Landscape

    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…

  • The UK Fintech Landscape

    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…

  • A Look at the Fintech Job Market: Interview with Ian Stewart

    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…