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Konstantin Rabin

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What does Uber’s new Fintech strategy mean for the unbanked?

Uber has announced its latest update: Uber Money. At the Money 20/20 conference Peter Hazlehurst, Head of Uber Money introduced the updates to the public. The new features aim to improve the experience of drivers by adding the following services: Real-time earning: From now on Uber drivers across America and later through the rest of the world ...

06 November 2019 /inclusion Digital Banking Trends

Should private companies be able to create currency?

Ever since Facebook’s Libra was first announced, this question has been plaguing quite a lot of lawmakers not only in the United States but all over the world. Corporations have started asking these questions to themselves as well, especially those who are large enough to have a global presence. For example, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple was once as...

28 October 2019 Innovation in Financial Services

High Frequency Trading: The most morally grey Fintech of them all

High Frequency Trading or HFT for short has been around pretty much ever since the financial industry found out what computers were and started incorporating them on exchange floors, big boiler room offices and various other parts of their business operations. The idea is that modern finance is practically impossible without the fast-calculating, f...

23 October 2019 /inclusion Trends in Financial Services

Is it ethical for private companies to create currency?

We cannot deny the fact that Libra is one of the largest Fintech projects currently being undertaken in the world. It is also one of the most criticized projects that Facebook has ever considered for the past couple of years. Even their controversy about selling data to companies wasn’t as “long-discussed” as the future implications of Libra and h...

18 October 2019 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services

Could banks become redundant in the future?

After so much development in the Fintech space due to the progression of “private banks” all over the digital world, many entrepreneurs have started to base their Fintech startups on the premise that banks will soon stop to exist in our lives. Well, considering the fact that most of the world’s population is still heavily involved in banking and is...

16 October 2019 /inclusion Online Banking

Fintech implementation in Macau helped decrease STRs

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 Fintech

How does digital currency save millions of dollars for governments?

The world has been embroiled in a serious discussion about whether or not digitized fiat currency should exist in various countries. The argument was pushed when China first announced it would be making its own version of digital currency in order to somehow combat Libra, but there may be other implications as well. Things such as easier distribut...

09 October 2019 /regulation Blockchain Observations

Australia! The refuge of every Asian fintech company for the future

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 Fintech

The Fintech landscape of the 21st century

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 Fintech

Does Fintech create monopolies or does it destroy them?

The advantages that fintech brings to the industry cannot be taken lightly, especially after we’ve seen so many traditional companies switch to this new understanding. In the past, there was absolutely nothing that could challenge traditional finances. The bank was the only place where you could possibly store your cash, and hope for some kind of r...

16 September 2019 /regulation /inclusion Fintech

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