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Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Crypto-anarchism is a type of anarchism in which cryptographically protected anonymization technologies, digital pseudonyms, and digital money are used to circumvent state control - surveillance, censorship, and taxation. How did crypto-anarchism originate? In the 1940s, Western intelligence agencies began to study the idea of the participation o...
05 May 2020 /inclusion
Chris Holmes Senior Vice President at KAE Consulting
When assessing applicants’ financial reliability, lenders globally have traditionally relied on a limited range of data sources. In the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Germany, creditworthiness is determined primarily based on credit scores provided by large credit reporting agencies (e.g. Experian, Equifax, SCHUFA). These scores are typically based on...
04 May 2020 /retail /inclusion Fintech
Customer reviews provide and interactive shopping experience, that has help companies like Amazon and Walmart outperform during the spread of COVID-19. The customer experience allows shoppers to have a voice in shaping how companies treat their clients. With online retail sales recently overtaking merchandising sales, the social platform uses to ...
03 May 2020 /inclusion /covid-19
Scott Raspa Head of Marketing at Hydrogen - www.hydrogen.tech
Although opening a bank account might be a rite of passage for people around the world, a significant portion of the global population either doesn’t have any form of bank account or doesn’t use a bank for a notable portion of their financial needs. People who are unbanked or underbanked tend to use alternative forms of financial services, such as...
22 April 2020 /inclusion
Retired Member
The financial environment is changing significantly in Europe and beyond, putting pressure on the lending market. Current conditions raise demand for instant credit products which forces lenders to go digital. Lenders are faced with a serious challenge to ensure business continuity. They need to create a mechanism that allows the assessment of bor...
22 April 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Open Banking
Financial technology, or fintech, is on the verge of a breakthrough in Brazil in 2020. In late November 2019, Brazil’s Central Bank set out draft rules for open banking, intending to phase in the rules during the second half of 2020. These new regulations make substantial changes to the way existing financial institutions and banks share transacti...
21 April 2020 /startups /inclusion
Steve Cook Head of Business Development at ID R&D
Biometrics will be in high demand in order for economies to function during the Covid-19 virus outbreak. Many onboarding practices with traditional banks involve the customers making a trip to the local branch to verify who they are with their ID documents. Now that most countries have introduced stay-at-home policies due to the coronavirus crisis,...
15 April 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Biometrics
Covid-19 has had a huge impact on almost every area of our lives: from travel to shopping, the economy to health services. Understandably, these are emotive issues – things that we previously may have taken for granted are now being put under enormous pressure at a time when people are very anxious. Amid the uncertainty, there is a danger that som...
06 April 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Financial Supply Chain
Tim Duncan Founder/CEO at FinTechCommons.org
The Coronavirus economic crisis is putting already financially distressed households in much greater distress. It als presents an enormous challenge for nonprofits and government agencies that must immediately transition from financial guidance to what is essentially complex disaster relief services at huge scale - while also having shut down thei...
31 March 2020 /sustainable /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Whilst the current pandemic induced crisis is yet to reach its peak, and is leaving a trail of personal and economic destruction, we should expect a new landscape to emerge, in many respects, when the dust settles. What does this mean for the Fintech sector in terms of opportunities and how does this impact the individual? 2019: A bumper year for ...
30 March 2020 /inclusion /covid-19 Capital Market Technology
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