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40 Week Issue 628
02 · 10 · 2026

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Everything is agreed. Almost nothing applies.

Europe and the US spent 2026 writing fintech's new rulebook. This issue sorts it into three rooms: in force, agreed but waiting, and stuck.

The Waiting Room - FTW Clarity Circle
The Waiting Room - FTW Clarity Circle

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A Cloud-Based Controlled Open Web Container for the Fintech Market

**As the demand for faster and more sophisticated financial trading tools increase it i...

4 min

Is Big Data a big foe?

Sensational headlines in the media describing Big Data as "the next big thing" somehow ...

3 min

Aligning CRA Efforts Within the Changing Climate of Corporate Socia...

For almost 40 years, a key piece of banks’ social responsibility strategies has been re...

1 min

Who is an Overbanked?

Real-time transfer technologies have given rise to a new class of customers in the Unit...

4 min

#BarCampBankLondon8

4 min

A Brave New World of Microservices

**We have the web at our fingertips. We connect more and more parts of our lives to the...

7 min

Composite Lending: Why a Hybrid of Balance Sheet and Marketplace Le...

**A few years ago, marketplace lending platforms quickly gained steam and emerged as Wa...

4 min

Africa - FinTech's Natural Fit and Next Frontier

**We’ve heard the sensationalism before – That the unbridled array of opportunities in ...

6 min

Big Banks can be Challengers too

**Paul Bowman from Market Gravity shares his insights on how traditional long-term stra...

7 min

Blockchain Technology - The Next Disruptive Computing Innovation

**Yamini Kona has around 15 years of experience in Financial Services. She comes with ...

6 min

What the Gig Economy Means for the Emerging Fintech Industry

**When thinking about the implications of the gig economy, all industries must take not...

6 min

FinTech Customer Experience is Changing Financial Services to Becom...

**We interviewed Kevin Bottoms, Global Vice President of TELUS International, about the...

4 min

Ways for Risk Management Departments to Provide a Winning Customer ...

**It is generally calculated that businesses must spend between four and ten times more...

4 min

Cookies – "Pay the Street Musicians Digitally"

**We were interested in the P2P payment startup Cookies for quite a while now. When we ...

4 min

There will be rebundling after unbundling – Interview with NUMBER26

**At the Pioneers Festival 2016 in Vienna, we met Maximilian Tayenthal of the rapidly g...

9 min

Interview with Raj Singh & Jürgen Hütter from Avant

We interviewed Raj Singh and Jürgen Hütter from online lender Avant about the reasons a...

8 min

Innovative Finance ISA 2016: An overview

3 min

Interview with Creamfinance

In London, we had the pleasure to meet with Co-founder and CEO Matiss Ansviesulis and P...

3 min

Interview with Thomas Joykutty from Deloitte Digital

Thomas Joykutty, working at the London office of Deloitte Digital, was part of the “Gri...

1 min

Interview with Jamie Rakover from App Dome

Tel Aviv based startups App Dome offers what they described to us as “Security as a Ser...

3 min

Interview with GeoPhy's Teun van den Dries

Teun von den Dries talked to us about his company GeoPhy and the role of fintechs in th...

3 min

Interview with Scalable Capital – “Death by a thousand small punches”

We met a part of the Scalable Capital team in London: Adam French (Founder and UK Manag...

6 min

Interview with Michael Mellinghoff from TechFluence

We talked to Michael Mellinghoff, Managing Director at TechFluence. Being a longtime ba...

7 min

The Future of the Digital Bank

New technologies have shown to be a driving force behind new business cases. Most of th...

6 min

Neo-Investing: Generating Digital Values

The finance sector is increasingly affected by the presence of fintechs. But many of th...

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