83 Results from 2020, /startups
Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel
“In 1898, E. St. Elmo Lewis developed a model that mapped a theoretical customer journey from the moment a brand or product attracted consumer attention to the point of action or purchase.” That is the first Google response I received when searching for “sales funnel theory started”. Funnily enough, Lewis did not talk at all about a sales funnel. ...
13 August 2020 /people /startups Digital Sales
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
When it comes to financial technology, trust is everything. You wouldn’t hand your wallet to a stranger, just as you wouldn’t share your financial details with just any digital application. Your users think the same way. Before they use a fintech service, they want to know: Can I trust it? What safeguards are in place to keep my money safe? Will t...
12 August 2020 /startups /inclusion Financial Inclusion
Adrian Klee Partner, Digital Banking at Ross Republic
Apple card. Shopify merchant accounts. Amazon loans. Increasingly, non-banking players are branching out into banking services to improve user experiences and tap into new revenue lines. Such native integrations of financial services into non-banking verticals, e.g. accounting SaaS or marketplaces, are called embedded banking. We expect the embedd...
10 August 2020 /payments /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
With more and more companies switching from transaction-based consumption to subscription-based solution models and customers (both consumers as businesses) actively adopting this trend, the management of these subscription services becomes more and more difficult. Very quickly you start accumulating a lot of different subscriptions, which are aut...
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Mergers and acquisitions hold promise for owners and investors of combinatorial synergies to reduce costs, increase profit, extend market and product coverage, as well as accelerate innovation. 2020 has been a banner year for mergers and acquisitions, with 5500 deals so far. This record volume may be partially due to the Covid-19 outbreak forcing t...
06 August 2020 /cloud /startups Fintech
Joey Kim
The Coronavirus pandemic is proving to be the boost needed for fintechs to gain traction with consumers who have been hesitant to move their finances online. With prolonged social distancing measures and lockdowns around the globe, the world is getting a crash course on why accelerated fintech adoption is necessary. History proves that crises can ...
06 August 2020 /startups /covid-19 Fintech innovation and startups
Marketplaces are emerging in every sector and the financial sector is no exception to this trend. For every product or service, for which multiple parties interact, marketplaces unfold to better match the supply and demand and improve the cooperation between the involved parties. Marketplaces have however unique dynamics, due to their multi-facial...
02 August 2020 /startups /markets Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation
The word Fintech (short for "Financial Technology") was first recorded in the 1980’s in the Sunday Times. However it was only until the financial crisis of 2007-2008, that the usage of the term became more widespread. The resulting lack of trust in the traditional financial system inspired many tech-entrepreneurs to create new start-ups ...
26 July 2020 /retail /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Jamie Nascimento Chief Commercial Officer at LemonTree Software
(Words 910: 3 minute read.) The financial services software sector needs to move away from opaque pricing models. But what should we replace it with? Pricing is a murky subject at the best of times, but in the financial services software sector, it’s often like a swamp. Lift the lid on software pricing in financial services in general and you fin...
22 July 2020 /devops /startups Digital Sales
Marketplaces are on the rise! A digital marketplace is an online platform, where different third-parties connect and supply and demand can be matched. This supply/demand can be a specific product or service, but can also facilitate a full customer journey, by matching products and services of multiple vendors for each step of the journey (e.g. a c...
19 July 2020 /startups /markets Innovation in Financial Services
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