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Sameer Singh Jaini CEO at www.TheDigitalFifth.com
Everyday I meet enthusiastic Fintech entrepreneurs, who have started their Fintech Businesses focused on lending, wealth management, payments etc. Most of these entrepreneurs have business background like sales / marketing / product. In their hurry to launch the business, typically they start without Tech... Few suggestions to improve the possibil...
20 August 2017 /startups
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
Perhaps it is time to change the way we look at regulations in context to Knowledge Management. The primary benefit of regulations is to protect the interests of individuals, organisations, society and the economy. Let’s start from the perspective that imperfection is the norm and at least 80% of regulations are aligned to generate benefits for ...
05 August 2017 /ai /regulation
Retired Member
It is no secret that insurance and insurers, as we traditionally know them, have been facing many challenges. This is due to the emergence of the new-age disruptive technologies that are altering the landscape. Given the age-old philosophy of survival of the fittest, it is companies that manage to adapt themselves in the face emerging technology, w...
02 August 2017
25 JUL 2017 Disclaimers: I am not a disinterested commentator. At my company, we compete with the model of the banks. We are not anti-borrowing. People need to borrow to fund all sorts of things in their lives. Credit is useful and often a force for good. In moderation. I am pro-bank. Without the banks, there could be no economy, no prosperity, no...
25 July 2017 /retail /inclusion
Chris Brown CTO at Trusek
In recent years there have been a significant number of new "neo-banks" or "challenger banks" launched with much hype, here in the UK. Many of these appear to have been brought to market quickly, on the back of a pre-paid card platform and are buying customers now with a plan to build a revenue model in the future. Whilst I a...
14 July 2017 /startups
Dear Banks, Thank you for your branches. For the long queues, the tasteless coffee and the free crackers while I have to wait for two weeks in your branch to open a bank account. Thank you for clearing cheques in five days. Thank you for the hidden and exorbitant fees. Thank you for building security features that are so secure, even I’m not clever...
11 July 2017 /retail
If you are struggling to create or maintain momentum in your automation initiative, the answer may be simpler than you think. Organisations that are successfully managing automation and digital service and transaction delivery are those who are creating and following an incremental approach that maps out where to start and how to evolve over time ...
29 June 2017
Michael Pearson Founder at Clarus Investments
The evidence from a sample of 20 fintech startups in the UK is that there are substantial profitability challenges that still need to be overcome. As of June 2017, the total equity investment in the sample companies I have looked at has been £852m. The total valuation of the sample at the last valuation round for each company was £2.6bn, but none ...
27 June 2017 /startups
Have you ever wondered what it takes to start a bank or an e-money institution? Perhaps you think it’s out of the realms of possibility for anyone other than those that know the ins and outs of complex banking regulation. Or you might think that, with the influx of new financial services providers entering the market, it’s not as difficult as some...
21 June 2017 /retail /startups
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Consensus 2017, Coindesk's 3rd annual blockchain technology summit in NYC. It was a great learning experience to be midst among the who's who of the blockchain ecosystem and to see blockchain in action. On the very last day, I was in conversation with Kevin Worth, the CEO of CoinDesk on the success of t...
30 May 2017
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