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Fintech

Fintech discussions and conversations around the development of fintech.

Dmitry Panov

Dmitry Panov Co-founder at Whillet - BaaS for embedded finance

BAAS - WHAT IS IT?

Banking as a Service (BaaS) has emerged as one of the most important strategic agenda items for CEOs in a variety of businesses other than banking, ranging from manufacturing to healthcare. With relevant financial services interwoven in the consumer experience, BaaS enables any organization to offer new and innovative propositions. By 2030, the va...

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Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

This Year, The Global Fintech Sector Is Expected To Be Valued At US$310 Billion

With a 25 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), US-based Toptal estimates that the global fintech business will be valued at US$310 billion by year's end. In addition to providing a freelancing platform, Toptal connects organizations with freelancers in a variety of fields, including developers, product managers, and financial specialists. ...

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In an uncertain environment, should your startup look for more funding?

On paper the tech industry is booming. Fintech in particular has experienced massive growth, investment, customer and employment numbers over the past few years. However, we all know that this rapid expansion comes with an asterix. World events - whether it’s the supply chain crisis, coronavirus variants or the invasion of Ukraine - have made the ...

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Victor Martin

Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot

Fintech Development Tech Stack in 2022

FinTech is the widely used term denoting all the technologies, tools and software apps facilitating financial transactions and management. From simple mobile banking apps to investment and stock apps to insurance apps to payment gateways and mobile wallets to cryptocurrencies, all come under the broad umbrella term of fintech. The global FinTech ...

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Changing the Payment Card Monopoly: What Does it Take?

“Do you take plastic?” There was a time when consumers where asking that question in Retail outlets around the world. Nowadays, the ability to pay for goods and services with a debit or credit card is so commonplace that consumers simply assume that card acceptance is available virtually everywhere. It wasn’t always like this but several decades o...

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Ivan Aleksandrov

Ivan Aleksandrov CSO | Fintech Licensing, Core banking & BaaS at Advapay

Payment and E-Money Institution License Costs: What You Need to Know

Do you have a plan to launch a digital bank or payment business anytime soon? Getting ready to apply for a Payment or Electronic Money Institution license? You may not know many things. Therefore, before you start your Payment or E-Money Institution, we recommend you reading this article to find out what kind of costs you will face in the future. ...

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Pavlo Farb

Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs

Building data security in a cloud

Switching from traditional software engineering to building modern cloud apps requires multiple changes on several levels, with data-related security often mistakenly pushed to the margins. But in fact, even with all the brilliant cloud providers’ security options, you can't duck data protection issues in a cloud, you just face new priorities in...

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Daniel Pujazon

Daniel Pujazon Policy Lead at PagoNxt

Why bigtech regulation will bolster fintech’s competitive advantage

New regulations, as I said in my previous essay, are altering the digital economy as we know it. However, a clear imbalance and the need to change to keep up with new models and players can still be seen on the regulatory front. Our particular elephant in the room is that our regulation is somehow stuck in the analogue world (to quote Santander’

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Pavlo Farb

Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs

Dousing the dependency hell in fintech apps

One of the most important things you can do to make your fintech apps more secure is to let your developer team go beyond coding and get involved in security design and security operations including dependency and vulnerability management. I start with this idea every time I’m asked to give some advice on data security issues in fintech since this...

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Daniel Pujazon

Daniel Pujazon Policy Lead at PagoNxt

How bigtech is moving in on fintech’s territory

Rewriting the rules to put technology at the heart of customer-first financial services Since the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, various trends in digital transformation have reshaped the way consumers and businesses interact. With the exponential growth of e-commerce and online intermediation, the financial services sector has seen an acceleratio...

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