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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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

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

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

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

In 1956, then US President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act, which created the Interstate Highway System. The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, to give it its full name, is a network of controlled-access highways that extend throughout the continuous United States. Having served as the Supreme Commander of

Every year, in December, a tree is erected in the middle of Trafalgar Square in central London. It is covered in twinkle lights and topped with a star and shines like a beacon during the chilly and rainy weather that tends to mark the Christmas season in the UK (rather than reflect gently falling snowflakes

Aritra Chakravarty, CEO at Project Imagine (Dozens and Pi1), 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 FTT Chat, Chakravarty discusses platform banking, the role of a founder, Dozens’ new partnership