114 Results from 2021, /startups
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One of the greatest barriers to people investing in the world’s longest-running medium exchange is, frankly, a lack of knowledge. The World Gold Council’s survey found that 66% of potential gold buyers don’t know enough about the precious metal to invest in it. Isn’t that curious? Gold has been the go-to store of wealth for many through-out histor...
17 November 2021 /wealth /startups Fintech
Roei Samuel CEO at Connectd
The challenges of starting a financial services business are well known, but those of an angel investor, the lifeblood of startup growth, can often be overlooked. It’s an odd social construction, because finding startups to invest in is just as difficult as finding investors to fund your startup. It seems this view on the startup market is not ve...
17 November 2021 /startups
Anuj Kumar UK Financial Service Strategy Lead at SAP UK
The Financial Services (FS) sector is risk averse, has been and most likely will remain so. Historically a sector that maintains a perception of being different, complex, and often resistant to disruption and digitisation. However, “the order is rapidly fadin'. And the first one now. Will later be last. For the times they are a-changin (Bob Dylan)....
15 November 2021 /startups /predictions Fintech
Abhinav Paliwal CEO at PayNet Systems
Banking today is ages different than what it was just a decade ago. And it won’t be an exaggeration to attribute a major chunk of this transformation to technology. Even today, banks need to tweak the underlying code beneath their applications in line with diktat of the market or newer technologies. A key factor leading to easy innovation is the
10 November 2021 /retail /startups Digital Bank Transformation
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
Fintech, a term representing financial solutions empowered by modern technology, is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. Almost every major bank, financial organization and investment firm has a fintech presence. For most financial companies it is the mobile apps that remain at the forefront of the fintech revolution they take part in. While fin...
10 November 2021 /payments /startups Fintech
Eric Huttman CEO at MillTechFX by Millennium Global
For many corporates, the way the FX ecosystem currently operates is not fit for purpose in our opinion. Traditionally, all but the largest corporates have had little choice but to suffer the dual challenge of significantly overpaying for their currency execution requirements and suffering the operational agony of trying to implement and manage mul...
04 November 2021 /startups /markets Fintech
Matthias Biehl API Strategist at Software AG
Open Insurance aims to create tech-driven collaborations among insurance firms and tech companies to foster innovation, provide fertile ground for digital ecosystems and new business models to emerge, and in the end provide better experiences for customers. The tech-driven collaborations enabled by open insurance are based on sharing customer data...
02 November 2021 /retail /startups Open Banking
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
Gen Z, aka people born between 1997 and 2012 are just now starting to step into the real world after university or high school. Many already have full-time jobs, with disposable income they don’t quite know what to do with besides the occasional fun purchase, subscriptions, games and etc. The keyword here is games, as many Gen Z’ers are quite invo...
02 November 2021 /startups /crypto
Austin Talley Founder and CEO at Everyware
“Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.” Jaime Murray Fintech entrepreneurs face many challenges, even from the start of their budding businesses. The term “fintech” can be traced back to the early 1990s but its gained popularity in the last decade as regulators, consumers and investors join the party. The fai...
02 November 2021 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Australian slot machine maker Aristocrat must take into account Playtech's complex corporate structure if it is to grow and prosper after an agreement to purchase Playtech for £2.7bn (€3.1bn/$3.7bn). In exchange for 680 pence per share, Aristocrat acquired 100% of Playtech. In addition to Setanta Asset Management and T. Rowe Price Group, Aristocra...
01 November 2021 /startups /crypto
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