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Regulation of the crypto market: The darknet of the stock exchange ...
**From hype to crash – in light of the most recent exchange rate developments of Bitcoi...
Blockchain: The good, the bad, and how to tell the difference
**Blockchain has been touted as a disruptive technology that can be used to benefit vir...
Unified IT Monitoring for Financial Services: Improving the Custome...
**Financial services companies are growing through an intense period of acquisitions an...
Alternative Investments: A path to transparency
**Capital has been flowing into the alternative investment industry over the past few y...
Cryptocurrency Accounting Guide: How Do I calculate My Crypto Gains?
**The increased interest and excitement towards cryptocurrencies has resulted in an inf...
Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg: exploring blockchain’s full...
**If there is one topic setting tongues wagging in FinTech, it is blockchain. Because o...
What is Bitcoin? Cryptocurrency for 5 year olds
Open Banking – Intellectual Property Considerations
**On 13 January 2018, the starting pistol was fired for the Open Banking race. Retail b...
How big data and AI has revolutionized financial trading
**Many banking and finance companies have already taken advantage of big data analytics...
The role of blockchain in the Open Banking era
**PSD2 - the second Payment Services Directive - offers European consumers significant ...
A Cautionary Tale for Tokens
**As the digital asset community tries to project how the world’s governments and agenc...
Mobile Payment: NFC, QR Codes, In-app and beyond…
**‘Mobile payments’ is a broad term. As the ecosystem has developed, various new techno...
Navigating Cryptocurrency Regulation: Common Sense in an Uncommon I...
**The recent, exponential growth of bitcoin, Ether, and other cryptocurrencies has brou...
PSP ecosystem explained and global mapping of key players
**As the PSP segment in the payments value chain is maturing, retail prices for online ...
Cryptocurrencies – Does the Next Big Thing have Staying Power?
**Cryptocurrencies – not just bitcoin, but any of the hundreds of different currencies ...
Fintech perspective: the best is yet to come
**In the past 18 months a great many column inches have been given over to distributed ...
Managing Identities Online: Blockchain and AI are the Key
**Blockchain and identity management are not only a natural fit, but will also be an in...
How Online Identification Will Change Businesses – Rupert Spiegelbe...
**FinTech Weekly talked to online identification provider IDnow about why identity mana...
Building the fintech hub – Interview with N26's Head of Internation...
**FinTech Weekly interviewed Alexander Weber, Head of International Markets at mobile b...
Bridging Cryptocurrency with the Travel Industry
**“The 90s had dotcom mania. Here comes crypto mania!”** **While Bitcoin is conquering...
Blockchain Trends to Keep on Your Radar for 2018
Blockchain is for sure a disruptive technology, and there are some trends you should co...
Blockchain could disrupt credit agencies all over the world
**Blockchain is driving a paradigm shift in how we deal with data, rewriting the rulebo...
ICOs: Regulatory Landscape and Good Practices
An increased scrutiny of initial coin offerings (ICOs) shows that a professionalization...
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