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Running a technology brokerage with strong focus on financial services and financial markets.

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Your Ransomware Defense Has Failed. Now What?

"Ransomware attacks in finance continue to increase, according to the latest statistics from cybersecurity firm Sophos. In a survey of nearly 600 IT and cybersecurity professionals in the financial services industry, 65% said they were hit by ransomware in 2024 – up from 64% in 2023. Financial services organizations have been a top target for...

22 October 2025 Information Security

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The regulatory sword of Damocles

The Critical Importance of Archiving Digital Contracts and Signatures in the Context of European eIDAS, NIS2, and DORA Regulations As digital transformation accelerates, the shift from paper to digital contracts and signatures has become ubiquitous. However, this shift brings with it significant regulatory obligations, especially within the Europea...

12 July 2024 RegTech

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The pre-seed funding gap.

56 % drop in fintech investments...interesting number... however, the headline doesn't tell it all... The total amount invested in fintechs fell 56 %, ok. However , the total number of investments in fintech dropped only by 18 %. If it were for rising interests exclusively, the number of investments would have gone down proportionally... Where the...

16 February 2023 Fintech innovation and startups

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Blockchain and European payments: banks in the defensive mode

Interesting article, Carlo, but I think you mix up 2 different things : an operational issue on one hand and a technology that could be envisaged to help it solve at the other. It looks like you are an advocate of blockchain technology and there is nothing wrong with that. However blockchain is just one possible way to address the challenge and possibly not the best or most efficient one, but that is a different debate...Thanks for shedding your light on the matter!

09 Apr 2020 13:54 Read comment

FinTech Myth busting - Selling Technology to Banks

This is a truly revealing and relevant article about propably the most neglected but undoubtedly the most critical activity related to building a solid financial technology business. An absolute prerequisite for possible success is a solid sales strategy and a team of industry experts that have built a trusted relationship with the targeted financial institutions. I invite every starting and scaling fintech to find those experts. In the exceptional case that the expert is found, another issue pops up : the absence of a sensible sales budget.

Thank you, Roger, for putting the finger on a universal problem! 

Willem

 

02 Dec 2019 13:00 Read comment

FINTECH - REGTECH - HOW ABOUT SALES?

Hi Scott, thanks for your comment! Much appreciated! We may possibly be able to help you out. Kind invitation to visit www.drebbel.eu.

I look forward to talking to you!

 

14 Aug 2019 16:53 Read comment

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