132 Results from 2022, /startups
Andrei Karpushonak CEO at Aprimerose
The best recent year for international conferences was in 2019. Let me use the Singapore Festival (SFF) as a benchmark to prove this "best" descriptor. I attended SFF for the first time in November 2018. The following year was more significant, with more industry experts, ideas, and budgets. There was no international travel in November
27 October 2022 /startups /predictions
Retired Member
Crypto market cap is one of the most important indicators for evaluating and ranking cryptocurrencies. It is because the higher the market cap of a cryptocurrency, the more dominant it is considered to be in the market. Cryptocurrency market capitalization is an indicator that measures the total value of a cryptocurrency. The stock market cap i
21 October 2022 /startups /crypto Cryptocurrency Insights
it is probably not the fullest picture that those use cash and frequent ATMs are not digital friendly or are but haven't fully embraced digital. But that is not the point. We need to address the why of digital(that would need an essay of essays, but let's be economical). If we go back to SMS banking and then move onto Internet banking, with which ...
19 October 2022 /payments /startups After hours
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
In some of my previous blogs (cfr. "Is a new bank consolidation wave inevitable?" - https://bankloch.blogspot.com/2021/03/is-new-bank-consolidation-wave.html and "Neobanks should find their niche to improve their profitability" - https://bankloch.blogspot.com/2020/12/neobanks-should-find-their-niche-to.html) I already shared my...
18 October 2022 /retail /startups Fintech, you get me!
Niall Haughey Founder at To Graze Limited
Peer to Peer or P2P models in Fintech were one of the earliest to take hold post Financial Crisis. Some companies flourished and some got stuck. The asset base of Agriculture lends itself quite well to a collateralised P2P model and there are some excellent examples in the sector to consider: Acre Trader in the US have created an entire category a...
17 October 2022 /sustainable /startups Innovation in Financial Services
It seems pathetic to compare America’s 1800’s westward migration to a well-funded fintech expanding its product suite. But that’s exactly what I’m doing. 150 years ago, moving west to find greener pastures (and perhaps even gold), was a road touted with hopes, dreams and extreme danger. One could remain in the built up eastern towns of New York o
15 October 2022 /startups Banking and Lending Solutions
Geraldine Bouckaert Management Consultant at Be Shaping the Future UK
The rapid development of disruptive technologies in recent years has sparked an explosion in start-up activity. Thanks to the favourable investment climate we witnessed in the past few years, there is a trend of rapidly developing businesses across all industries, which are expected to continue to grow to meet consumer needs and to realise investo...
13 October 2022 /people /startups Fintech
Last week I had the pleasure again to attend the yearly Digital Finance Summit (DFS) in Brussels (organized by Fintech Belgium). As each year, this was a super-interesting and fully-packed day of interesting panels, keynotes and networking, allowing to get a good update of what’s living in the Fintech scene in general and in the Fintech scene in B...
11 October 2022 /sustainable /startups Fintech World
Almost every blockchain founder thinks that their project is the best in the market. You must have heard a startup team say something along the lines of, ‘We are the best because we are better’. This unfounded optimism about one’s product leads to sad results: in 90% (if not in 98%) of cases the project doesn’t just fail — it can’t even enter the ...
07 October 2022 /startups /crypto DeFi
Embedded finance and retail go hand in hand and this is no different in Ag retail. Correct Agriculture Retail. This is important as this sector is worth $56bn in North America alone and some estimates claim 90% of payments are still made using paper checks. However, a recent SPAC proposition to combine an ag retail footprint in Brazil (Lavoro) wit...
06 October 2022 /sustainable /startups Innovation in Financial Services
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