114 Results from 2021, /startups
Laurent Descout CEO at NEO Capital Markets
For millions of small businesses, 2020 was a pretty dismal year. But with a vaccine being rolled out and a Brexit deal agreed, business confidence is growing. I, for one, am looking forward to what 2021 has in store. As we start the New Year with renewed optimism, it is worth reflecting on the biggest challenges SME owners faced last year and how ...
17 February 2021 /wealth /startups Fintech
Tamas Kadar Founder and CEO at SEON
Everyday, business leaders face challenges, ranging from the photocopier running out of ink or paper at the most inconvenient moment, to the latest development of a new piece of technology that outmodes their proposition overnight. However, it is now imperative that leaders improvise, innovate adapt and do all they can to keep their businesses mov...
15 February 2021 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Josh Rix Director at Woodhurst Consulting
Some machine learning tools are incredibly complex. So complex that they are considered to be “black box” systems. On the one hand, they are determining more and more accurate outputs to increasingly difficult problems. But on the other, the inner workings of these solutions can’t easily be understood by a human, and the rationale for the decision...
15 February 2021 /regulation /startups Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services
Carl Wegner CEO at Contour
The global trade and trade finance industries are nearing an inflection point where we will either embrace digital platforms en masse, or will return to discussions about a future held back by endless challenges, as pockets of digitisation progress. For the most part, the technical challenge of digitisation has been solved through progressive appro...
11 February 2021 /wholesale /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
In the world of insurtech, it is typical to make bold predictions about the state of the market and where it is headed. The fact is, however, that as the market matures investment in companies is becoming more concentrated and ‘trends’ are more long-term. This consolidation is beginning to drive an increasing amount of meaningful innovation in the...
08 February 2021 /startups /predictions Digital Insurance Trends
King Leung Global Head of Financial Services and FinTech at InvestHK
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced lockdowns and impacted economies globally. As we recover from the pandemic, the focus for international finance hubs is resilience and recovery. One of the most important success factors for fintech companies in the post-pandemic era is the ability to scale. From funding, to product development to distribution and m...
02 February 2021 /startups /markets Asia Financial Services
Jo Jordan Marketing & Operations at MobiusPay
At the rate by which credit card payments are increasing, having a business not accept them is rare. In fact, credit card payments increased from 103.5 billion to 111.1 billion between 2016 and 2017. The number of e-wallet users has also been increasing over the years. Credit card payments offer the average consumer convenience, which is a hallmar...
01 February 2021 /payments /startups
FX execution and hedging have been a widely mismanaged feature of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for years, with no automation or analytics and high transaction costs. The need for a modern, comprehensive and cost-effective TMS In many regards, treasury management remains hindered by increasingly outdated and fragmented processes. This b...
19 January 2021 /payments /startups Treasury Management
Michael Pearson Founder at Clarus Investments
Some sources, such as CB Insights, are reporting that venture capital investment in fintech has remained robust during the pandemic. After an initial dip in the second quarter of 2020, funding levels recovered quite rapidly with some large, later stage funding rounds driving the market. However, first round investment for companies trying to get s...
18 January 2021 /startups /covid-19 Fintech
Adrian Pollard Trader and Crypto Enthusiast at ISTANEX
Starting a fintech business is now free due to open-source crypto technology and exchange software The crypto technology is getting expotentially more powerful than traditional fintech tech Building with the technology is getting easier as more blockchains become standardized and widely adopted People are building a preference for crypto exchage
15 January 2021 /startups /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
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