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Experience is quite important when it comes to customers. Customers don’t really discriminate in companies based off of their sizes or channels; as long as they enjoy the output of the services then they are happy. Customers also expect companies to hold the same knowledge and experience in certain areas regardless of their size. However, while th...
20 August 2019 /inclusion
René Hendrikse Vice President & Managing Director, EMEA & LATAM at Mitek
Like many recent inventions, digital banking and e-commerce have made our lives substantially better. Designed to save time and money, they’ve empowered consumers, created thriving marketplaces and allowed businesses to embrace asset-light business models. Open banking was quick to follow, allowing consumers to benefit from better deals, access to...
16 August 2019 /regulation
Gustav Korobov Senior Sales Executive - Core Banking platform at Advapay
According to experts, the most innovative country markets in the UK, Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands are currently the main drivers for the development of the European fintech. Most European fintech companies operate in the payment sector. Market leaders are such companies as Revolut, Transferwise, N26, Monzo, Funding Circ...
12 August 2019 /payments
Access to capital can mean the difference between business longevity and business insolvency. Many UK businesses, particularly SMEs, either lack the access to capital or they find it takes a long time to secure funding from traditional offerings. In the context of the digital economy, lending and leasing customers, such as manufacturers, retailer...
06 August 2019
Today’s financial markets participants must comply with emerging and existing regulatory requirements that dictate the level of precision and accuracy of time needed for transactions. Timestamping and clock synchronisation are an important part of operations in any business that trades. In heavily regulated industries like finance, participants al...
31 July 2019 /regulation
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
The Republic of Georgia is a small country that can never fully agree whether it is located in Europe or in Asia. It is a young democracy that has only been around for about 30 years and it is a growing economy that has a large number of struggling individuals in it. So why is it that the country is all of a sudden becoming a hub to some of the mo...
30 July 2019 /inclusion
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
If you’ve ever been to a large food or music festival in Europe (perhaps, even down under in AU/NZ), you’ve noticed that no cash or cards are accepted at food and drink places. Instead you would exchange your money in the special machines or at cashiers for the tokens. No, not the digital tokens, or crypto tokens. Old-school plastic ones. Massive
26 July 2019 /payments
Britain is on the cusp of seismic change brought on by the 2016 EU Referendum. Brexit has been variously touted as the end of the UK economy and the start of a new British renaissance – and everything in between. But high-profile tech investors including Tom Chapman, Michael Moritz and Michael Blakey are unlikely to be phased, and for good reason...
25 July 2019 /startups
It is no secret that the money contained within the Norwegian wealth management fund is derived from the discovery and appropriate use of the oil reserves that were found off the shore of Norway. What is more, the continued growth of the fund has been a direct result of the continued investment into the oil industry over the past few decades. But ...
22 July 2019 /startups
Michael Pearson Founder at Clarus Investments
Funding Circle achieved an IPO in September 2018, raising £300 million and valuing the company at £1.5 billion. Since then the share price has fallen by 72 percent (as of 22nd July 2019). The market capitalisation of the company is now less than the total equity that has been invested in the business since inception in 2010. An interesting aspect ...
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