Fintech in the Developed World — New Funding and Themes June 12-June 19

Overview While I will discuss new fundings this week, perhaps the bigger question being pondered within the VC community is portfolio resilience. This is of course for those that have weathere...

eCommerce transactions pave the way for in-store retail success

The UK has recently seen an encouraging improvement to retail footfall, with customers more inclined to visit shopping destinations in person, according to the British Retail Consortium. But e...

How the war in Ukraine affected the Fintech world

Russia's war in Ukraine affected all the CIS countries and somewhat all the world. As well the war influenced fintech companies, whose rapid development was observed after the pandemic. L...

What’s Falling Faster Than Funding for Fintech? — Not Much

Funding and valuations for tech is declining . Even companies that had large rounds in the past are getting less and less as they move toward additional raises. Fintech especially has ta...

Fintech Landscape Funding & Trend Assessment in May 2022

Funding Overview: During May, across the various segments that I monitor across the Fintech landscape, there was approximately US$1.6bl in earlier stage funding announced. This was all...

21 Lessons: What I learned creating and killing a startup

This article could save you and your cofounder $1.1MM+. “Oh no, someone checked out.” — My cofounder was on the other line. It was 2 days before Christmas, 2.4 weeks past Hanukkah. The long t...

Bank transformation: implementing real-time payments made easy

Even with a significant upturn in instant digital transactions during the Covid years, a significant 39% of demand deposit accounts (DDAs) in the US are still not connected to the Real-Time Pay...

Fintech and Open Source

The regulatory framework that financial services must comply with, complex payment architectures, and fraud are some of the reasons why financial services are difficult and expensive to build [...

How the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) model is shaking up the financial services industry

Disruption has been a mainstay of financial services for some time now. Be it the need to keep up with digital-native disrupters, meet evolving consumer demands, or navigate the impacts of rece...

To Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) or not to: Another Fintech disruption?

Going into the pandemic, BNPL became the fastest growing eCommerce payment method in advanced markets, giving consumers some moment of relief from the pressure of outright payments or the i...

The Bull Case for Polygon (MATIC) - Part 1

What is Polygon? Polygon is a decentralized Ethereum scaling platform that enables developers to build scalable user-friendly dApps with low transaction fees & high throughput without sa...

Why Our Voice Holds the Key to Beating Financial Services Fraud

Fraud has been a problem faced by financial services since its conception. However, old problems cannot be combated by outdated solutions – innovative approaches are required to beat financial ...