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Fintech has a number of goals. Make things faster, cheaper and easier for customers and organizations. Fintech holds the promise of dramatically lowering operational costs and the barriers to entry for new players. Analysts have expected Fintech to revolutionize legacy-dominated financial services and open up new fields. And the auto finance indus...
14 October 2019
Did you see this news? NatWest to trial biometric credit card NatWest is to begin a three-month trial of biometric fingerprint credit cards with 150 customers. The biometric credit cards will offer contactless payments using fingerprint verification for transactions https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/34546/natwest-to-trial-biometric-credit-card ...
11 October 2019 /payments
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Macau is one of the largest gaming havens in the world thanks to its close proximity to mainland China, where it gets millions of visitors every year from. The bridge that connects the administrative division of Macau and China is slowly becoming more and more crowded. Add to that the connection with Hong Kong and you get a bustling gaming city th...
10 October 2019 /payments
“Money is the power which is often reserved for the few. With cryptocurrencies and digital assets, money is now technology.” – Matthew Roszak, Ted Talk San Franсisco. The current crypto/stock correlation is little. But can we call it a correlation? Does it bring more harm or good to the traditional exchange and cryptocurrency markets? With an emerg...
04 October 2019 /inclusion
Far East Asia is slowly but surely becoming quite a heated market especially after the bastion of commerce, Hong Kong had to go through months of protesting and a display of political issues. The protests are still continuing as we speak as Hong Kongers continue to march in the streets to somehow win back the democracy they feel like they’re losing...
27 September 2019 /regulation /startups
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
As the Indian summer comes to a close, and I prepare for our global user conference I have been reflecting on the insurtech market once again. Perhaps something people missed was the Willis Towers Watson and CB Insights Quarterly InsurTech Briefing Q2 2019 published in July. It is well worth reading and watching the video here. A headline-finding...
25 September 2019 /startups
Predicting what the future of financial companies will look like in the short term is not an easy task, but it is one that should be undertaken, if we are to make sense of the 21st century. The problem with making any predictions is that the stability of the world, in terms of providing a good place for a Fintech company to work in, has been shake...
25 September 2019 /regulation /startups
Daniel Scott CEO at CoinCorner
Following an update to their Financial Services policy in June 2018 which saw a blanket ban on all crypto-related advertising, Google had a change of heart, partially reversing the ban and announcing a year ago today (September 2018), that it was reopening its advertising doors to regulated crypto exchanges in the US and Japan the following month ...
25 September 2019
Given the recent gig economy bill passed in California that promises to transform how the state classifies independent workers, now, more than ever, increased focus is being placed on the experience of gig workers and freelancers. This legislation could mark a new paradigm for the global gig economy, but it also presents a perfect storm of opportu...
25 September 2019 /payments
Wherever we look, there is a constant push towards going paperless. Whether it is in industry, offices, and now banking, there are many benefits for doing so. For some, the main factor is reducing waste and projecting a green image, but at the end of it, a paperless world is simply a more convenient and efficient one. And it should come as no surp...
23 September 2019
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