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Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
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. ...
27 April 2022 /startups
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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 ...
25 April 2022 /startups
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
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 ...
22 April 2022 /people /markets
“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...
21 April 2022 /payments /inclusion
Ivan Aleksandrov CSO | Fintech Licensing, Core banking & BaaS at Advapay
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. ...
14 April 2022 /payments /startups
Pavlo Farb Security Engineer at Cossack Labs
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...
12 April 2022 /security /cloud
Daniel Pujazon Policy Lead at PagoNxt
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’
05 April 2022 /payments /regulation
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...
05 April 2022 /security
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...
29 March 2022 /payments /predictions
We can see the recovery of the fintech industry is back on the agenda. It has been gradually getting back on its feet after the pandemic and gaining the momentum to take businesses forward. According to the Report State of Fintech (CB Insights, 2021), global fintech funding reached a record $132B in 2021, which means twice as much as in 2020, and a...
29 March 2022 /payments /startups
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