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Fintech innovation and startups

Disruption, destruction, harmony and creation; Fintech’s new frontier – a place to discuss the cutting edge of innovation.

Steven Hatton

Steven Hatton Co-founder & Director at Trusek Ltd

How should a new FinTech be allocating their resources?

As a new Fintech preparing to come to market with your new services there are many demands on what may initially be limited resources. You will need to obtain your FCA licence, create the platform on which your service will operate, take on board the necessary staff to satisfy the regulatory requirements and service your customers and then market t...

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Willem Lambrechts

Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel

PEOPLE DON’T LIKE TO BE SOLD TO, BUT THEY LOVE TO BUY!

Funny, it doesn’t sound like that when I attend a sales planning session or a review…the buzzwords popping up in those meetings read like : lead generation, growth hacking, warm and cold calling, C-level introductions, product positioning, etc... Out of curiosity, keeping the title quote in mind, I consulted Google and searched for “TOP 5 technol...

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Agriculture: The Five Fintechs To Watch In 2021

Agriculture is often Fintech’s forgotten cousin behind consumer and business sectors. While also known as Agritech, ‘Fintech within agriculture’ relates specifically to the discipline of financial technology for agriculture businesses. The industry has undergone significant and much needed financial innovation in recent years. Thanks, in no small

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Ronak Patel

Ronak Patel Co Founder at Aglowid IT Solutions

How Fintech Organizations build relationship With Gen Z and Millennials?

You must have heard the terms ‘Millennials and Gen Z’ over and over recently. Well, if you have no idea what these terms mean, they're tags given to people belonging from different generations. This segmentation helps marketers and industries better define their target audiences and identify people belonging to a particular age to have certain com...

Dmitry Dolgorukov

Dmitry Dolgorukov CEO at GiniMachine

Top countries for launching a Fintech startup

In this text, you can find some analytics that may help reveal the sweet spots for business and investment on the world’s map in 2021. Certain regions and countries are friendly to innovation that have millions of users with a high level of tech adoption and expanding fintech market. How FinTech was doing in 2020 According to the World Bank’s re...

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Tim Simon

Tim Simon CEO at Madiston plc

Buy Now Pay Later - how to select the right technology

Flexible payment options, including Point-of-Sale (POS) "Buy Now Pay Later" (BNPL) offers, are growing in popularity at a pace that regulators are struggling to match. The Woolard Review (a review of change and innovation in the unsecured credit market) noted that the value of BNPL transactions has nearly quadrupled during 2020. Accordin...

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

The idea of a collaborative investment fund

With interest rates close to 0, people are forced to invest their money to avoid losing buying power (as inflation is considerably higher than the typical interest rate on a saving account or term deposit). As many people do not want to actively follow-up their investment portfolio, most bank customers invest in actively-managed investment funds (o...

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Yuliya Barabash

Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers

Experiences and Business Prospects for Fintech Projects in South East Asia

South East Asia has seen a Fintech boom and immense growth since 2016 but this market is still considered underpenetrated, and the reason is obvious: a limited availability of financial services creates major potential for development. For instance, according to the World Bank, only 49% of adults in Indonesia have official bank accounts; in Cambod...

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Tamas Kadar

Tamas Kadar Founder and CEO at SEON

Learnings from a CEO: adapting to life in Covid

Everyday, business leaders face challenges, ranging from the photocopier running out of ink or paper at the most inconvenient moment, to the latest development of a new piece of technology that outmodes their proposition overnight. However, it is now imperative that leaders improvise, innovate adapt and do all they can to keep their businesses mov...

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Himanshu Kolhekar

Himanshu Kolhekar FinTech Mentor at Coursera.org

Can every company be a FinTech?

2015 - The year where Smart Phone's capability reached a new height. Faster processors to run complex applications. Cheaper internet plans and new mobile players which brought down the price of superior performing mobile phones. These were the main ingredient eats to boil the broth of new FinTech solutions. History is witness where FinTechs that r...

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