912 Results from /startups
Dennis Gada Vice President, Financial Services at Infosys
Even after the global economic crisis of a decade ago, the world’s largest banks have continued operating much like they always have because of the belief that they were “too big to fail.” Governments for the most part seemed to go along with this reasoning. Then came the rise of the financial technology start-ups. One can compellingly argue, that...
16 September 2016 /sibos /startups
David Mann Executive Specialist at Various
Structuring a business so it is capital and tax efficient sounds boring to most who aren’t accountants, but if you can pay your staff better and compete in the market more aggressively, it’s no longer a boring topic. If you can operate more efficiently with business units set in rapid response structures to drive marketshare, and deliver better pro...
16 September 2016 /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Nahum Goldmann Partner at BelPay.be
I had published a review of this remarkable book some time back at the American Bankers Association's Journal. I am posting it again here because I believe that it should also be a required reading for the executives of every FinTech startup, whether or not they plan to conduct regulated services or whose services might unexpectedly become regula...
08 September 2016 /regulation /startups Transaction Banking
Retired Member
There’s a whole industry dedicated to helping small businesses and start-ups get ahead. Lessons vary from managerial skills to branding to finding investors. Of course, there can’t be one overarching advice that can be applied to all businesses in all circumstances. Nevertheless, here are some tips that can be useful to small and medium entreprene...
01 September 2016 /startups
What is a business actually worth? Although it is deceptively simple, this may be the most important question you can ever know as a business owner or an advisor. Despite this, the vast majority of business owners have no idea what their businesses are actually worth. In fact, only 2% of all businesses around the world have valued themselves prope...
18 August 2016 /startups Fintech innovation and startups
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
In Part 1 titled “Fintechs Need Marketers And Lobbyists – Not Lawyers”, we saw why marketers and lobbyists play a vital role in a fintech startup’s success. In this second part, we'll examine the following middleground approach suggested by some people: Go to lawyers, listen to what they say, understand the risks and work out a mitigation strategy...
15 August 2016 /regulation /startups
Jamie Campbell Commercial lead at Bud
Wooden. Layered. Traditional. I could make the obvious "and thats just the banks!" joke, but I think I'll refrain. Russian nesting dolls (or matryoshka dolls) are weird little things. Normally they're wooden figures painted like nurses or matrons (matryoshka literally means little matron) all piled inside one another with a little baby ne...
15 August 2016 /retail /startups
Jon Carp Director at Finceler8 Limited
Having spent over 30 years selling a variety of products into the UK, European and US Financial industry - including, but not exclusively, Software, Information Systems, Broking, Electronic Trading and Prime Brokerage I feel I am at last slightly qualified to share some of my observations since I entered into this new exciting world of Fintech. Fi...
04 August 2016 /startups
Like startups in any other industry, fintechs need to find a problem to solve, develop a solution, package it in such a way that it provides a compelling reason to use, and thereby gain mainstream adoption. SQUARE and PayZapp are two fintechs that have a good job of this for reasons I’ve covered in my previous blog posts here and here. This requir...
31 July 2016 /regulation /startups
In terms of Brexit news in general, personally I was shocked of the results. I did not expect the majority of the UK to vote “Leave”. We are living in a globalised society where social connectivity does not recognise any borders and is fair to say that "business" is operating in this space too, with UK and EU at the centre of the global ...
11 July 2016 /startups
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