1026 Results from /inclusion
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Finland is definitely one of the most tech-developed countries in the world and this has reflected not only in the number of fintech startups but their success rate and influence, even outside of the country. Finland has embraced the Startup culture and has given a lot of your entrepreneurs a chance to offer something unique and useful to the publ...
17 March 2020 /startups /inclusion Fintech
Ambrish Parmar Digital Leader, Strategist, at Thought leader and Start-up Advisor
Time to read: Five minutes to gain a different perspective /// Airport lounges Over the last 12 months, I have had the luxury of travelling to several different countries—often quickly exchanging one travel bag for another and regularly buying Toblerone bars, much to the annoyance of my family (especially the wife—and rightly so). I have convinced...
13 March 2020 /retail /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
Matthew Phillips Head of Banking, UK and Ireland at Diebold Nixdorf
Cast your mind back to when you were younger and you used to get pocket money, or your first part-time job, where you were paid in cash. For me that tangible cash in my pocket felt hugely valuable and having the physical notes helped me budget and plan what I was going to spend my money on. Of course as you get older how you get paid and how you m...
10 March 2020 /inclusion
Retired Member
In 2018 LINK, the network which connects all cash machines in the UK, announced plans to cut the fee that banks pay for cash withdrawals by 20%. We warned at the time that this would have a disastrous - and potentially terminal - effect on people’s access to cash across the country. Our warnings were ignored and LINK implemented two 5% cuts in 201...
10 March 2020 /retail /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Yet another African startup is raking up millions from investors around the world during its round of financing and this time around the major investor is America’s most prestigious investment bank- Goldman and Sachs. The bank is just one of the investors willing to put its assets into the South African fintech startup Jumo that just recently clos...
06 March 2020 /inclusion Fintech
A Southeast Asian country is set to become one of the top fintech countries, showing impressive rates of adoption and the willingness to work for progress. Malaysia which is typically known for its beaches and rainforests isn’t very active on the tech market, or so we thought till very recently. Malaysia has managed to create a thriving fintech s...
03 March 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Bhavesh Vaghela SVP B2B Product and Innovation at Collinson
Anyone working in product development needs to think, feel and live like a customer to truly understand what they need to do. I’ve worked in digital for over a decade, but all too often I’ve heard the phrase “you are not the customer” used (usually incorrectly) like a carefully calibrated torpedo to blow any argument out of the water, even if it w...
28 February 2020 /inclusion Innovation in Financial Services
The Private, Public and Impact Sectors Join Forces for AI for Good Close to 4,000 people are expected to attend the 2020 United Nations AI for Good Summit in Geneva. Senior executives from impact organizations and major companies and high-ranking government officials from around the world will gather in May to further the use of artificial intel...
27 February 2020 /regulation /inclusion Inclusive FinTech
Citibank is one of the most active larger banks that actively tries to follow the trends and the demands of their customers and for the longest time, the prime request for their customer has been more present in fintech. Last year Citibank was involved in one of the biggest fintech projects, partnering up with Google on Google Pay and backing all...
17 February 2020 /inclusion Fintech
Earlier last month, news feeds were abuzz about a major acquisition within the financial industry, when Visa purchased fintech startup - Plaid, for a substantial sum of $5.3 billion. Although major news, for the majority of the readers this was the first time they have heard about Plaid, raising the questions of how could this company that many ha...
11 February 2020 /inclusion Fintech
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