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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
The correct answer is ‘No’. Libra threatens banks as well as VISA and MasterCard. Actually, there is nothing wrong with Libra. This ‘stablecoin’ is just a fictious digital surrogate for money. Facebook aims to replace traditional or ‘fiat’ currencies like dollar, euro, yen, etc. with Libras in it’s own worldwide digital payment ecosystem. A Facebo...
01 March 2021 /payments
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
I know, I know, this ‘banks vs fintech’ sounds sooo 2017. I would have thought that there is nothing to discuss there any longer. But what do you know, it is early 2021 and the first payments-related Clubhouse room I get to speak in is exactly about this imaginary confrontation. People seem to be interested in my opinion on the subject, so here ar...
01 March 2021 /payments /retail
A quick Google search on the global payments landscape will serve up a myriad of articles ranging from how Covid has accelerated the adoption of contactless and the rise of digital technologies, but also how financial crime is on the rise. Visa’s recent ‘Back to business study’ notes that the number one area of tech investment in 2021 will be in pa...
23 February 2021 /security /regulation
Tamas Kadar Founder and CEO at SEON
Bitcoin went mainstream in the last four years, and with it, many online casinos began to accept cryptocurrencies. The key advantage of blockchain technology being used in the online betting, gambling and casino sector is that it provides transparency in database transactions. Currently, there are a lot of new and upcoming open source lotteries, ...
22 February 2021 /security /crypto
Max Zorian Founder at QArea and TestFort software development at Qarea and Tesfort
FinTech is a high risk high reward industry. Most think about the “reward” side of the equation, but the real experts understand the value of risk mitigation. A common risk of software development is making compromises that will back the team into a corner with things like bugs or technical debt. These issues can be covered with basic development ...
17 February 2021 /startups /inclusion
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