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Building a digital lending system – methods, learnings and insights
Tuesday 17 August 2021
Digital lending has been one of the key areas of focus in the digitalisation efforts of financial service providers during recent years, with Covid 19 accelerating it further and at an unprecedented pace. It is estimated that the digital lending platform market will account for $15.3 billion by 2026, up from $3.5 billion in 2018.[1]
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Abandon ship! Running barefoot and inclusivity – FTT Bookmark 27
Tuesday 10 August 2021
Your weekly resource for noteworthy news, fascinating features, and fintech titbits that caught our eye. Whether you live by your Twitter lists, save your Google Alerts or simply scroll through LinkedIn for insights and commentary – there is a wealth of content that weaves a global story around fintech. Our job at Fintech Talents is
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How payment cards can help stabilize the crypto ecosystem
Tuesday 10 August 2021
Cryptocurrency is quickly expanding into the financial system, and crypto cards are a fundamental part of this evolution. In many ways, crypto cards work just like traditional credit or debit cards. What makes them unique is that they unlock the value of crypto holdings for everyday use. Additionally, users can convert between digital and fiat
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How payment cards can take crypto mainstream
Tuesday 03 August 2021
How payment cards can take crypto mainstream The number of cryptocurrencies now exceeds 5,200, according to Investing.com, evidence that cryptocurrencies are increasingly viewed as viable stores of value. However, the technology that supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, and Dogecoin trading has some inherent limitations. Even the most popular cryptocurrencies today are not easily accessible for everyday
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The future of FinTech is with the shopkeepers and SME entrepreneurs.
Tuesday 08 December 2020
The SME market (small to medium sized enterprises) has long been a difficult market to serve for the financial services industry. The FinTech movement has spawned quite a few innovative, digital-first entrants aimed at serving this market – traditionally underserved and under-supported by traditional, incumbent banks. However, 2020 brought further difficulties to this sector in
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Open Banking, evolving and growing, in Europe – FTT Chat Episode 37
Tuesday 06 October 2020
Watch the video interview now! Rūta Merkeviciute, Head of Division for E-money and Payment institution supervision, Bank of Lithuania joins us for our ongoing series – FTT Chats – where we sit down with the great and the good of FinTech to discuss innovation, new entrants, and emerging technologies. In this chat Rūta discusses the benefits
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Hope, Humanity and FinTech – A Community Gathers in FTT Virtual / Spring
Tuesday 16 June 2020
We launched FinTECHTalents Virtual / Spring with an over arching mission – to try and gather our FinTech community in an online space that was interesting, engaging and interactive. We counted ourselves lucky that we weren’t in an environment where we had to rush to migrate a previous physical event onto the internet. That is
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Brexit-proof payments with fire
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Dublin-based fire.com seeks to support corporate, SMEs, sole traders and self-employed workers with quick and simple integrated payments solutions. What is fire.com – what problems are you solving? fire.com is the complete solution for integrated payments. It is designed for businesses and other financial institutions to get easy access to a range of payment services. It supports
- Published in Customer Experience, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Payments
Amazon remains focused on financial services – How can banks compete?
Tuesday 08 October 2019
FinTech Stories company, PayKey, looks at the march of Amazon and Amazon Pay and its impact on traditional banking. “Amazon is investing in enabling faster, frictionless payments to help boost marketplace sales… the company remains very focused on building financial services products. In a sense, Amazon is building a bank for itself — and that
- Published in Data Privacy, Featured, Fintech, FinTECHTalents, Payments
Finastra FusionONE Hack – The community gathers to collaborate
Wednesday 29 May 2019
FinTECHTalents supported our partner Finastra as they welcomed over 20 teams to spend the weekend at their London headquarters as part of their Open Banking Hackathon. Both internal Finastra teams joined with several teams from external organisations to develop, build and then showcase their creations, using APIs from the FusionONE platform, during a live demo
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