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Prateek Saxena Managing Director at Appinventiv
With the continuous efforts of app development companies, applications have already engaged the users more than their desktop counterparts. And, when it comes to online shopping mobile apps have clearly came out as the true winners. There is a slew of reasons that make mobile apps much more engaging than desktop websites for the users. And, one of...
27 February 2017 /startups
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We know this and we keep on focusing on this aspect again and again. Is there any specific reason behind this? Of Course, Social Media (SM) is booming with new social networks emerging every single day and people following their lead. From Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+ to Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Reddit, audience gets plenty of diff...
27 February 2017 /startups Business Knowledge for IT
Siva Shankar Marketing and Sales Specialist at Habile Technologies
FinTech is the most used buzzword in the Finance industry all over the world. In Asia, Singapore is the hottest Fintech hub. The Singapore government is keenly focusing on developing the Fintech industry which in turn increases the Fintech companies in Singapore. For every business, identifying the right influencers in their sector will be difficu...
24 February 2017 /startups
The next generation of digitisation in financial services will propel the industry into the knowledge economy. More specifically, financial services firms can look forward to a future of using a more contextual knowledge and understanding of their clients to generate tangible economic value. How much time do your customers typically spend on your...
20 February 2017 /startups Disruption in Retail Banking
There is an increasing trend on smartphone adoption, all over the world. In 2016 alone, there is as many as 2 billion smartphone users, all over the world. But, most of this growth is not only limited to U.S, but rather more because of the developing countries such as China and India. In such a scenario, you must direct all of your marketing effor...
13 February 2017 /startups
Whilst everyone else went to immerse themselves in the latest PFM technology - or is it robo-advisory this year - at Finovate Europe, I decided to head to NTT DATA's Open Innovation Contest Finalist Pitch Day hosted by Innovate Finance at nearby Level 39. NTT DATA not only operates in the banking and finance space but also realises projects such a...
08 February 2017 /startups
On Tuesday 31st January at a crowded event near Canary Wharf, a select group of RegTech innovators, accelerators and venture capitalists came together to discuss this emerging market. Attendees heard four expert speakers explore the challenges and opportunities. But first, some background. -- Financial market participants had to acknowledge some h...
04 February 2017 /regulation /startups Financial Services Regulation
Can financial services chatbots fulfill their potential? It all depends on data. Bots are going ballistic. Transparency Market Research predicts the global chatbot market to be worth $7.9 billion by 2024. This year, financial services bots will increasingly service banking, trading and insurance. According to bot specialists Personetics, there w...
03 February 2017 /startups
Small businesses have long been hailed as the backbone of the UK economy – and rightly so. At the start of 2016 the combined annual turnover of SMEs was £1.8 trillion, so it’s no surprise Philip Hammond threw his weight behind them in this year’s Autumn Statement. Yet, as the Federation of Small Businesses has called out time and again, SMEs are h...
27 January 2017 /payments /startups
I read a fascinating blog this morning by Slava Akhmechet, a founder of RethinkDB on why they failed (see here: http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html). There are two critical insights for me in this blog. The first is that the team wanted to build an elegant product and believed that once they had done this the market would...
20 January 2017 /startups
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