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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.

Yuliya Barabash

Yuliya Barabash Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers

Experiences and Business Prospects for Fintech Projects in South East Asia

South East Asia has seen a Fintech boom and immense growth since 2016 but this market is still considered underpenetrated, and the reason is obvious: a limited availability of financial services creates major potential for development. For instance, according to the World Bank, only 49% of adults in Indonesia have official bank accounts; in Cambod...

/payments /markets

Tamas Kadar

Tamas Kadar Founder and CEO at SEON

Learnings from a CEO: adapting to life in Covid

Everyday, business leaders face challenges, ranging from the photocopier running out of ink or paper at the most inconvenient moment, to the latest development of a new piece of technology that outmodes their proposition overnight. However, it is now imperative that leaders improvise, innovate adapt and do all they can to keep their businesses mov...

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Himanshu Kolhekar

Himanshu Kolhekar FinTech Mentor at Coursera.org

Can every company be a FinTech?

2015 - The year where Smart Phone's capability reached a new height. Faster processors to run complex applications. Cheaper internet plans and new mobile players which brought down the price of superior performing mobile phones. These were the main ingredient eats to boil the broth of new FinTech solutions. History is witness where FinTechs that r...

/markets /predictions

Joris Lochy

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

Deals as a competitive differentiator in the financial sector

In my blog "Customer acquisition cost: probably the most valuable metric for Fintechs" (https://bankloch.blogspot.com/2020/06/customer-acquisition-cost-probably-most.html) I described how a customer acquisition strategy can make or break a Fintech. In the traditional Retail sector, focused on selling different types of products for perso...

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Scott Raspa

Scott Raspa Head of Marketing at Hydrogen - www.hydrogen.tech

The benefits of embedded finance

As the fintech industry continues to change, accessible and straightforward interfaces for end users are key to helping financial institutions better engage their customers. One way many fintechs are creating a superior user experience for customers is with embedded finance. It’s a way to make financial processes like payments work seamlessly with...

/startups /inclusion

Willem Lambrechts

Willem Lambrechts Managing Director at Drebbel

Sales for start- and scale-ups : 5 lessons learned

Lesson 1 : Sales should be on the top of your business plan! Do you remember the 4 P’s of the marketing mix? Product Price Promotion Place 3 out of the 4 factors refer to sales, only 1 to the product. The sales plan is as important as the product and the financial plan! Sales, as product development, has its cost. Never underestimate it and take ...

/people /startups

Joey Kim

Joey Kim 

Boost to Fintech in Response to Coronavirus

The Coronavirus pandemic is proving to be the boost needed for fintechs to gain traction with consumers who have been hesitant to move their finances online. With prolonged social distancing measures and lockdowns around the globe, the world is getting a crash course on why accelerated fintech adoption is necessary. History proves that crises can ...

/startups /covid-19

Joris Lochy

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

Fintech is dead, long live Fintech

The word Fintech (short for "Financial Technology") was first recorded in the 1980’s in the Sunday Times. However it was only until the financial crisis of 2007-2008, that the usage of the term became more widespread. The resulting lack of trust in the traditional financial system inspired many tech-entrepreneurs to create new start-ups ...

/retail /startups

Freddie McMahon

Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd

The emerging market to digitalise regulation is an USD 1,000 billion opportunity

Regulatory distribution is systemically broken The conventional way governments distribute rules for use by citizens, businesses, other private actors and for the institutions of government is through documents and other forms of content. As highlighted in an earlier paper “The Dangerous Risk of Interactions with Regulation”[i], the use of docume...

/regulation /cloud

Jamie Nascimento

Jamie Nascimento Chief Commercial Officer at LemonTree Software

How Auto-Code empowers citizen developers to do more

Citizen development is a proven, powerful tool to build better applications faster. But, it has its limitations. Could there be a better solution? Let’s find out more. There’s no doubt that no-code and low-code citizen development interfaces help companies respond to digital transformation. It’s why the market for low-code development is predicted...

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