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Fintech innovation and startups

Disruption, destruction, harmony and creation; Fintech’s new frontier – a place to discuss the cutting edge of innovation.

Ofir Tahor

Ofir Tahor CEO and Co-founder at Justt

Moving Past the Jurassic Age of Fintech

Once upon a time in the financial services industry, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was significant value for technology providers just in being a large, established brand. Big brands used to show stability, strong offerings and ability to scale. However, today many startups offer the same if not better. The premium placed on brand name st...

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Vladimir Kuiantsev

Vladimir Kuiantsev Managing Partner at AKURATECO

Top 7 reasons to switch from your own payment gateway to a white-label solution

The Fintech industry is booming. The complexity of payment processes has increased dramatically within the last decade. ApplePay, GooglePay, 3DS 2.0, tokenization, crypto-payments, QR-code payments, and plenty of other flows and features are currently highly demanded in different parts of the world. Moreover, new features and payment methods are c...

/payments /startups

Ronen Shnidman

Ronen Shnidman Content at Justt

Recent Acquisitions Show Path Forward in Chargeback Mitigation

An area in payments that has been heating up over the past year and a half is the handling of credit card payment disputes, AKA chargebacks. Four chargeback mitigation solutions have been acquired in the last 18 months: Chargehound by PayPal, Chargebacks.com by Sift, ChargebackOps by ClearSale and last week Midigator by Equifax. The timing of the ...

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Kartik Swaminathan

Kartik Swaminathan Author - 3F: Future Fintech Framework & Founder at Fintastech (Fintech Consulting & Coaching)

Super APPs and Fintech

Over last few years, we have heard of Super Apps (Applications), and how they will be key and dominant players in the whole digital ecosystem. This is backed by efforts by leading players with mixed or limited success. We have known of success of Amazon, GoJek etc. and also many others who could not realise their efforts fully or effectively. Simp...

/people /retail

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen

Peculiarities of International Money Transfer App Development

Online banking has changed the model of customer interaction with financial institutions. The American Bankers Association has found that people are more likely to manage money through smartphones (39%). 32% of consumers access online banking from a laptop or a PC. Only 10% of clients prefer to conduct transactions in a bank branch. A similar situ...

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Joris Lochy

Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever

Digital Finance Summit - A recap

Last week I had the chance to attend the yearly "Digital Finance Summit" conference in Brussels. After a pure digital event last year, the event was a hybrid event this year, which allows to network in a much more effective way. Such conferences are always an excellent way to get inspired and take a step back from your daily work to get ...

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Yahya Mohamed Mao

Yahya Mohamed Mao Head of Business Development & Marketing at Swiss GRC

Why fintechs will play a key role in the metaverse

As in many other fields, this virtual space of the metaverse has sparked a desire among financial innovators to learn how fintech and new fintech solutions can provide financial services in this entirely new world. Metaverse technology to create new business models could lead to the emergence of crypto as a large-scale alternative financial system...

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Austin Talley

Austin Talley Founder and CEO at Everyware

Three Mantras Every Fintech Entrepreneur Should Follow

“Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn.” Jaime Murray Fintech entrepreneurs face many challenges, even from the start of their budding businesses. The term “fintech” can be traced back to the early 1990s but its gained popularity in the last decade as regulators, consumers and investors join the party. The fai...

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Vladimir Kuiantsev

Vladimir Kuiantsev Managing Partner at AKURATECO

Migrating a Payments Orchestration Platform to the Cloud: Why and Is It Worth it?

Our company developed a payments orchestration platform. In this article, we shared our experience of moving to cloud microservice architecture and pointed out the practical benefits of this approach. This guide should be of great interest to junior DevOps looking for a basic understanding of complex stand-alone cloud-based systems and seasoned F...

/payments /cloud

Abhinav Paliwal

Abhinav Paliwal CEO at PayNet Systems

What is Mobile Wallet Marketing ?

Launched just about a decade ago in 2011, mobile wallets are one of the newest forms of payment. They are your digital applications like Google pay, Apple Pay etc., that store your payment information on a mobile device. They store users' card details, coupons, tickets etc., in one place for them to make payments on the go digitally. These wallet...

/payments /startups