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A group about everything related to embedded finance.
One adage you hear time and again in business is that a repeat customer is better than a new customer. Why is that? Because repeat customers spend more money – 300x more! Retaining customers can help...
It might seem as if Embedded Finance is an existential threat to the incumbent banks. Fragmentation and decentralisation are radically changing the financial services landscape, and the dominance of t...
Between 2020 and 2021, the coronavirus crisis caused businesses to rethink and accelerate their digitization strategies unlike ever before. Digitization projects planned for years in advance were comp...
Olympics & Fintech - Olympics is a mega event with multiple ecosystems / dimensions within: - - On one hand there is a sports event with participation from across the world - There is a dimensi...
Forex brokers leaving their positions at established brokerage firms and setting up on their own is nothing new. I’m not revealing any trade secrets when I say that over the years it’s typically been ...
It’s difficult to overstate just how much the way we work has changed over the past year. We all know it and we’ve all been living it since Covid-19 arrived and upended our daily lives overnight in ea...
Over the years, our lives have become more and more digitised. Most experiences now involve some form of online interaction, whether that’s buying a new car, food shopping, banking or booking a holida...
Even before COVID-19 hit, the insurance industry had some major challenges to face. In fact, research from McKinsey highlighted the revenue of the world’s insurance companies declined by $300 billion ...
Recently, I published an article on Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and why it made sense for banks to build out capabilities for their banking services to be adopted by brands (both financial and non-f
Inventing new concepts, ideas, technologies and utilizing them to an extent that has not been thought of earlier is the way forward. Embedded Finance is one example of human intelligence which has giv...
There was one major story in fintech during 2020: the collapse of Wirecard. The saga of the scandal-hit company increased the focus on some concerns around fintech generally. Of course, the blame fo...
With the surging number of new banking and fintech business models emerging on the scene, it can be hard to keep them all apart. The term “Banking as a Service”, especially, still has many scratching