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Manuel Silva Martinez General Partner at Mouro Capital
Lending is at the core of what we do as fintech investors. But our approach to investing in lending start-ups has changed over the years, integrating learnings from the past to bet on the winners of the future. If we look back at the past five to ten years of innovation in lending, a number of product and business models, very hyped at earlier sta...
17 March 2021 /startups
John Cragg Chief Executive Officer at MYHSM
It was only a few months ago that Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, declared that banks should be “scared s***less by fintechs”. It’s no surprise either as over the last decade the fintech industry has been thriving with new technology paving the way for financial institutions. A rise in electronic payments and a preference from customers to han...
17 March 2021 /payments /cloud
Sean Salloux CEO at Sentinel Digital
E-commerce and online marketplaces are very much here to stay and they’re growing, fast. However, their success often depends on having an effective payments infrastructure. Taking your business global isn’t as straightforward as setting up an e-commerce site and waiting for orders to come in. To accept payments, you must be compliant with regiona...
17 March 2021 /payments /regulation
Adriana P Trader at Xray Trade
Nowadays, companies need to diversify their approaches to get the consumer’s time and attention and this goes for the financial services companies also. A new concept has been introduced to keep that consumer attention which is called gamification which is leveraging specific gameplay principles like designing elements and making it accessible to ...
16 March 2021 /crypto /predictions
King Leung Global Head of Financial Services and FinTech at InvestHK
An international fintech hub characterised by a diverse, resilient, and dynamic landscape, Hong Kong is a deep market on the rise with a large number of financial institutions and fintech start-ups looking to rapidly scale-up. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hong Kong fintech sector bucked the global trend as companies continued to grow, rai...
15 March 2021 /people
Christoph Gugelmann CEO at Tradeteq
There are many takeaways from the recent review, led by Ron Kalifa, highlighting how the UK can establish its world-leading fintech sector as a strategic asset. One of the more interesting points was the recommendation that fintech form an integral part of trade policy. This comes at a time when governments around the world are looking to reinvigo...
11 March 2021 /startups
Retired Member
The real estate market is constantly changing, with new trends coming and going all the time. Even right now, there are multiple trends that are dominating, and which might prove interesting to people who may be on the lookout for such opportunities. Today, I will present four such trends to you, in hope that it might help those who navigate such w...
08 March 2021 /inclusion /crypto
Documenting the worldwide rise of the behind-the-scenes digital asset infrastructure providers powering the banking revolution With an estimated 42 million people holding Bitcoin in the world, and a further 5.25 billion people with a traditional bank account, there is significant potential for digital asset infrastructure providers to rapidly scale...
04 March 2021 /payments /crypto
The correct answer is ‘Yes’. Payment technology by VISA and MasterCard had no alternative 20 years ago. Credit or debit card as a customer ID, PIN for authentication, POS terminal to capture transaction details, private network based on ‘star’-like topology to transmit payment data, bank back-offices with poor 12x5 availability that required addi...
03 March 2021 /payments
Ruslan Kolodyazhnyi Head of Wirex R&D, CTO at Wirex
Three years ago, digital currencies seemed like a distant future, but now for European banks and financial companies, this future is just around the corner. In recent years, as digital currencies have become more popular, many platforms are now regulated, licensed, and fully compliant with the financial services market. So what do banks and fintec...
03 March 2021 /payments /crypto
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