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The small to medium enterprise or SME is the foundation stone of our business community. Smaller firms account for up to 95 percent, sometimes more, of the business landscape across many countries. Across the European business landscape of 2015, for example, companies with fewer than 250 employees represented 99 percent of all firms. As such, SMEs...
27 August 2018 /ai
Shailendra Malik SVP - Tech Delivery (Data Platform) at DBS Bank
I read a lot of debates happening on the web and at coffee breaks and even at the company senior stakeholder meetings about applied AI is around the corner and the revolution will sweep away the way we work and major workforce redundancies are about to happen. The more you get involved in those discussions the magnitude grows and this leads for ma...
26 August 2018 /ai
Equity rounds have been the main talk of the fintech industry in recent months, but that might be changing soon. A financial startup, Klarna, recently reported that they’ve been able to raise significant capital, although without any equity financing – instead, the company took that as a debt. A representative for Klarna stated that the organizati...
24 August 2018 /inclusion
ICOs vs. IPOs : What you need to know before investing By Aaron Wagener, COO, MXC Foundation Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have the potential to become a powerful means for start-ups to amass capital. Disruptive technologies are changing the world and wrestling the scope of opportunity away from the powerhouses of Wall Street and other institutio...
20 August 2018 /startups
As the presence of fintech in various industries keeps growing, its impact on some industries is getting harder to ignore. Financial services in particular have benefited a lot from the integration of various modern financial technologies in their work, and we’re likely only seeing the tip of the iceberg, with more coming up not too far on the hor...
17 August 2018 /inclusion
Daniel Fasnacht CEO&Founder at EcosystemPartners AG
After the financial crisis, Western banks where paralysed with lawsuits, fines and regulatory requirements. The lack of innovation paved the way for a new industry (fintech), focusing on data and clients that lost trust in large banks and their intransparent and complex financial products. Challenger banks from Asia are about to export their digit...
15 August 2018 /inclusion
Fintech is one of the most rapidly growing fields at the moment, not just in the technological sector but as a whole. And it makes a lot of sense when one considers the numerous implications it has in our everyday lives, especially when it comes to large-scale institutions’ operations and the way they are able to meet the demands of large numbers ...
10 August 2018
1980 was a great year. Post Notes had its debut. Cable News Network launched and the US men’s hockey team beat the Russian team. Most data was stored in file structures like VSAM. Not until 1983, when IBM launched DB2, did data processing take a leap from file based structures to relational databases. Between 1980 and today computer processing has...
The current situation around India’s agriculture is not very pretty, as the country has found itself in a dire state in some regions due to the government’s attitude towards its need for farmers. It’s not clear when the situation is going to stabilize – or how – but it’s interesting to note that the growth of the fintech sector has given local far...
29 July 2018
Michael Pearson Founder at Clarus Investments
My updated research on fintech financing and performance shows that valuation growth for most of the start-ups in the sector is still very strong (on paper) but that revenue growth and profitability continue to be a challenge, even for the companies which have been operating for more than 5 years. The analysis is based on a sample of 39 privately-...
26 July 2018 /startups
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