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New Kids on the Block: Where Fintech Meets Sharing Economy
**The sharing economy continues to grow and disrupt entire industries.** **A recent ...
Don’t compete with Fintechs; Build your business on top of them
**The financial industry is not new to innovations. As the human civilizations became m...
The problem with Fintech
**Everyone wants a piece of the $100 trillion pie. I can rattle off a list of 50 paymen...
Open letter to Mark Carney on Robo-Advice
**I am very pleased that Mark Carney has robo-advice on his mind. For him to be speakin...
Polish FinTech companies attract interest abroad
**FinTech is currently one of the fastest growing sectors of technology. It is expected...
Why banks must look beyond today’s crypto key management standards
**Banking operations are diversifying, fast. Outsourcers control more of many big banks...
InsurTech: What to expect in 2017
**InsurTech well and truly made its mark in 2016, stealing some of the thunder (and inv...
The future digital currency may not be the Bitcoin
**Two years back after my trip to the US, I still had a coin of 1 dollar cent in my wal...
Peer-To-Peer Payments in the Fintech Revolution
**The financial technologies (FinTech) revolution, which has the potential to disrupt t...
Saving Financial Services in a Fickle Digital Culture
**According to a recent survey, more than half of banking executives want to improve th...
Why Portugal? Why Lisbon? – Interview with João Vasconcelos, Secret...
**We had the privilege to talk to João Vasconcelos, Portugal's Secretary of State of In...
Why you still can’t trust banks (and what FinTech is doing about it)
**Banks acting in a manner that leads to distrust of financial services is nothing new....
Rising Interest in Blockchain Technologies, Amid Legal Issues – Rep...
**Blockchain technologies are attracting increased interest from Russian financial inst...
An Investor's Opinion on Collaboration and Co-Creation
**Interview with João Freire de Andrade, Head of Venture Capital at BiG - Banco de Inve...
"There is some real disruption mixed in with the noise" – Interview...
**We met Brett Myers, Co-Founder and CEO of leading P2P currency exchange marketplace C...
Technology and the future of non-bank financing
**The surge in technology solutions for financial services providers has demonstrably t...
Making sense of data access approaches [Whitepaper]
[SPONSORED] **Consumer access to financial data has become a hot topic of late—and with...
An industry matured: highlights from Mobey Day 2016
**Sirpa Nordlund, Executive Director, Mobey Forum, shares key takeaways from the intern...
Putting the "Investor" Back into "Investor Relations" for Alternati...
**Private funds are the fastest growing category of investments, with estimates of curr...
On the attack: How FinTech is piling the pressure on banks
**Banks are staring down the barrel of a loaded gun. Preparing to squeeze the trigger i...
Hack a bank from the inside – and why innovating hurts
**Hacking a bank is serious business. This is true in terms of hacking as an illegal ac...
Planning for the Bank’s Future: Why Advanced Data Analytics Is Para...
**2016 has been a big year for advanced analytics. Banks that are already turning cust...
The Benefits of Record & Replay to Wealth Managers
**Whether for business or pleasure, the Internet, social media and digital access to in...
How [And Which] FinTech Startups Are Breaking Banking
**I’ve talked about how the global financial system is broken and how that freelancers ...
FinTech Sector at Risk From Attack on Patentable Subject Matter
**Innovation in the United States could be at risk due to a recent patent ruling having...
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