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Konstantin Rabin

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Fintech challenges in the Post Soviet space

There are many challenging areas for the traditional Fintech industry to get into, with one of the most challenging areas in the world being the Post Soviet space. This includes Russia and any country that used to be part of this space. The issues faced by the Fintech industry are many, and solving them goes beyond simply offering a superior servi...

02 September 2019 /inclusion Financial Services Regulation

Vendors looking for Fintech solutions driving innovation

It seems that what is driving true innovation within the fintech community is not simply the jovial step of progress, as certain parties would put it, but rather the basics concepts of economic theory. There are many vendors working across the internet, all of whom provide diverse services, with users who have diverse needs in terms of what they w...

13 August 2019 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Some boring facts about Bitcoin, and why you should remember them

It has been around ten years since the first time that Bitcoin came into existence. With this amount of time passing, we should do a quick review of some of the more boring facts about Bitcoin, which all determine, in one way or another, what Bitcoin is to us today. These facts need the occasional review, simply because they are important to the h...

08 August 2019 Blockchain Observations

What is the actual use of cryptocurrencies?

In the early years of their existence, the concept of cryptocurrencies seemed like nothing more than a joke or a financial scam to the majority of the people who heard of them. The moment you brought up the topic, you would either be considered a scammer or one who had been scammed and dismissed. We have come a long way since then. The world has l...

01 August 2019 Blockchain Observations

Understanding booming markets in the context of slowing economies

It might be a little more than confusing to see that some of the largest markets in the world are currently in the growth phase, while the economies around the world are seeing a slowdown that has not been seen in a decade. The confusion is justifiably understandable, as it makes no sense why the markets would seem as healthy as they are if the g...

31 July 2019

Georgia - a strange place for a good Fintech opportunity

The Republic of Georgia is a small country that can never fully agree whether it is located in Europe or in Asia. It is a young democracy that has only been around for about 30 years and it is a growing economy that has a large number of struggling individuals in it. So why is it that the country is all of a sudden becoming a hub to some of the mo...

30 July 2019 /inclusion Fintech

A healthy ecosystem for FinTech innovation in Norway, out of the ashes of oil

It is no secret that the money contained within the Norwegian wealth management fund is derived from the discovery and appropriate use of the oil reserves that were found off the shore of Norway. What is more, the continued growth of the fund has been a direct result of the continued investment into the oil industry over the past few decades. But ...

22 July 2019 /startups Fintech

The African opportunity for the Fintech industry

The African houses more than a billion people today, and yet the entirety of the continent seems to suffer from the state of being ignored. The continent, while currently underdeveloped and in parts still in turmoil, has many nations that are actually in the state of becoming rising democracies and growing economies. Yet, as the counties on the co...

05 July 2019 /inclusion Fintech

Are wages paid in crypto the future for industries with large payouts?

It is not the first time in history that people such as professional athletes are asking to get paid in Bitcoin, and it is not the last either. It is part of a trend, one that seems to repeat itself in cycles. When people see Bitcoin rise in value, they start clamouring for wages to be paid in the new age currency, but when it falls in value, the...

25 June 2019

Banking security under AI control

When thinking of AI in the context of banking, many people immediately start considering the uses of it to be either customer related or somehow used for optimization processes. Even when considering the security applications of AI, the primary purpose that banks think of applying the technology to becomes fraud prevention when in lending operatio...

05 June 2019 /ai /security Information Security