83 Results from 2020, /startups
Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
With the word "tech" in Fintech, there is automatically a strong focus on technology in this sector. As a result, we tend to think that the biggest cost of a Fintech company is in building and maintaining the underlying software (tech) solution. In some bottom-up organized firms, which are usually built on top of an open-source core produ...
03 June 2020 /sustainable /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Gustav Korobov Senior Sales Executive - Core Banking platform at Advapay
During the past months, we have witnessed the slowdown of the economy. Many industries are being impacted, including financial services. Covid-19 has destabilized private capital markets, and investments in start-ups and new projects have substantially decreased. In Q1 2020 VC-backed fintech activity dropped to $6.1B across 404 deals, which result...
22 May 2020 /regulation /startups Fintech
Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel
Governments are cautiously starting to relax the lockdown. Economic life, or what is left of it, starts picking up. Everybody is encouraged to “go digital” and work from home. That is probably fair enough for a lot of people conducting tasks that do not involve interactions with clients, suppliers, partners. But how about sales, or looking from th...
18 May 2020 /people /startups Digital Sales
Claus Christensen CEO at Know Your Customer
The Digital Finance Outreach 2020 is an initiative launched by the European Union to better understand, foster and stimulate the FinTech ecosystem across the bloc. An essential part of the programme is a series of events – organised in collaboration with all Member States – aimed at engaging the community and preparing the new EU Digital Finance S...
14 May 2020 /regulation /startups Fintech
Talks about the “new reality” and “the world will never be the same” flooded the Internet, and the society is pretty fed up with those words and phrases. Nevertheless, changes are already taking place, and it would be foolish to ignore the obvious - because now it is imperative to understand which way the wind is blowing to be able to adapt to cir...
13 May 2020 /startups /covid-19 Fintech
Retired Member
The current Covid-19 pandemic is stressing small businesses around the world in extraordinary ways. Small businesses make up a significant portion of the global economy, yet many may never recover from the current crisis. Mandatory orders to shift operations online or shut down entirely have left many small businesses in difficult positions to ma
12 May 2020 /startups /covid-19 Fintech
How do we see the future of fintechs and banks? Will these financial players end up being competitors or partners? We at Advapay are working daily with Fintechs to provide core banking platform and understand how important for them to have easy-to-connect and fast-to-market services. It is no secret that during the past years, the stability of bank...
07 May 2020 /cloud /startups Fintech
Mahesh Pawal Portfolio Product Manager, Digital Transformation at Fiserv
“What do you call China – Villain or change-enabler?” You can call whatever, but China, as a country, has magnificent impact on the globe. According to Worldbank, China’s share of global GDP in 2019 was 19.24%. This number indicates, how Chinese economy is weaved into the global economy. And the latest product from China is – ‘Coronavirus Disease
03 May 2020 /retail /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Scott Raspa Head of Marketing at Hydrogen - www.hydrogen.tech
Financial technology, or fintech, is on the verge of a breakthrough in Brazil in 2020. In late November 2019, Brazil’s Central Bank set out draft rules for open banking, intending to phase in the rules during the second half of 2020. These new regulations make substantial changes to the way existing financial institutions and banks share transacti...
21 April 2020 /startups /inclusion
This article focuses on VCs and their action patterns during economic slowdowns / recessions including actions taken to shield their investments, especially the most promising start-ups in their portfolios. Promising start-ups are defined as those able to offer something new or something unique that has a potential to change how our lives evolve. E...
09 April 2020 /startups /covid-19 Trends in Financial Services
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