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Joris Lochy Product Manager at Intix | Co-founder at Capilever
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 ...
26 July 2020 /retail /startups
Freddie McMahon Director Strategy and Innovation at DF2020 Ltd
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...
16 July 2020 /regulation /cloud
Jamie Nascimento Chief Commercial Officer at LemonTree Software
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...
06 July 2020 /devops /startups
Joey Kim
Rising unemployment, small business failures, and impending recession pose an existential threat to marketplace lenders who take risks to accurately identify creditworthy borrowers underserved by traditional financial institutions. Within weeks of lockdowns that swept across the globe in March, LendingClub laid off 30% of its staff, Kabbage stopp...
30 June 2020 /startups /covid-19
With the word "tech" in Fintech, there is automatically a strong focus on technology in this sector. As a result, we tend to think that the biggest cost of a Fintech company is in building and maintaining the underlying software (tech) solution. In some bottom-up organized firms, which are usually built on top of an open-source core produ...
03 June 2020 /sustainable /startups
Mahesh Pawal Portfolio Product Manager, Digital Transformation at Fiserv
“What do you call China – Villain or change-enabler?” You can call whatever, but China, as a country, has magnificent impact on the globe. According to Worldbank, China’s share of global GDP in 2019 was 19.24%. This number indicates, how Chinese economy is weaved into the global economy. And the latest product from China is – ‘Coronavirus Disease
03 May 2020 /retail /startups
Payson Johnton CEO and Co-Founder at Crowdz
Small and medium-sized business (SMBs) are often cited as a major economic driver and force for job creation, and it’s for good reason; with SMBs making up over 90 percent of all US businesses, while also employing 47.5 percent of the country’s entire workforce. But, despite their significant impact on the economy, many still encounter difficultie...
12 March 2020
Anish Kapoor CEO at AccessPay
As we hurtle forward into a new decade, we are surrounded by a seemingly limitless range of new technologies. All we have to do is reach across the sofa to our smartphones, think of anything we want or need, and we can be sure, ‘there’s an app for that’. A plethora of platforms, scant standardisation Technology proliferation is also becoming increa...
18 December 2019
Hamza Khan Founder and CEO at Suburbia
'Data is the new oil.’ It’s a dramatic statement – and certainly a contentious one. Just as one publication makes the case for it, another rubbishes the concept. The first argument points out that data is becoming the world’s most valuable resource; the second, that the analogy is lazy and rapidly collapses, whether because data is infinite or bec...
11 December 2019 /security
Douglas Anderson Founder at Club Vita
From maps to stats, and back again Since I was a teenager in the 1970s, I have loved studying maps. Back then I was growing up in rural eastern Scotland, not far from St. Andrews, the home of golf (in the era when Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson were the maestros of the links). My granny had given me her collection of old maps of Scotland. So, I b
07 October 2019 /startups
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