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Laurent Descout CEO at NEO Capital Markets
Ron Kalifa’s UK fintech review has been greeted relatively well across the market. Kalifa’s review identified many of the foreseen headaches that are anticipated by the fallout from Brexit and the pandemic, as well as identifying steps to solve them. Ahead of what is shaping up to be the UK’s most important budget for some time, the findings and r...
31 March 2021 /markets /predictions
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APIs allow access to siloed data so businesses can offer personalized services to clients Financial services are evolving fast. According to recent research, 42 per cent of UK adults now use at least one FinTech service and over 20 million people use banking apps. Today, people are comfortable banking online and customers are increasingly demandin...
26 March 2021 /payments /crypto
Paul Christensen CEO at Previse
Liz Barclay’s appointment as Small Business Commissioner was the latest development that reflected the UK’s longstanding and worsening slow payments crisis. Liz’s new role will see her serve as guardian of invoices owed to SME suppliers, championing their prompt payment against a backdrop of drawn-out payment terms: a problem which has worsened ove...
25 March 2021 /sustainable /inclusion
Conchur Gill Associate Partner, Payments at Be | Shaping The Future
Investment in FinTechs is at record levels and they must scale in an ever complex and competitive marketplace Investment in FinTech businesses has been reaching new heights on a consistent basis for some time now. Last week Stripe received a further $600m in funding and the company is now valued at $95Bn. This marquee headline overshadows a plethor...
24 March 2021 /payments /retail
Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot
According to several leading types of research, mobile banking users are continuously growing in number, and fintech apps are more frequently relied upon for investment decisions than ever before. As an increasing number of smartphone users are using fintech apps and using their financial information for banking and other financial transactions, t...
22 March 2021 /security /devops
As a quick recap, in my last article I talked about the brilliance of using software to turn mobile devices like smartphones and tablets into payment terminals. There’s a myriad of benefits that positively impact everyone in the payments ecosystem, from card schemes to banks, PSPs, merchants and the consumer. One of the most critical benefits of...
18 March 2021 /payments /crime
Manuel Silva Martinez General Partner at Mouro Capital
Lending is at the core of what we do as fintech investors. But our approach to investing in lending start-ups has changed over the years, integrating learnings from the past to bet on the winners of the future. If we look back at the past five to ten years of innovation in lending, a number of product and business models, very hyped at earlier sta...
17 March 2021 /startups
It was only a few months ago that Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, declared that banks should be “scared s***less by fintechs”. It’s no surprise either as over the last decade the fintech industry has been thriving with new technology paving the way for financial institutions. A rise in electronic payments and a preference from customers to han...
17 March 2021 /payments /cloud
E-commerce and online marketplaces are very much here to stay and they’re growing, fast. However, their success often depends on having an effective payments infrastructure. Taking your business global isn’t as straightforward as setting up an e-commerce site and waiting for orders to come in. To accept payments, you must be compliant with regiona...
17 March 2021 /payments /regulation
Adriana P Trader at Xray Trade
Nowadays, companies need to diversify their approaches to get the consumer’s time and attention and this goes for the financial services companies also. A new concept has been introduced to keep that consumer attention which is called gamification which is leveraging specific gameplay principles like designing elements and making it accessible to ...
16 March 2021 /crypto /predictions
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