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Spanish SMEs' Payment Delinquency Rate Hits 70%

Liquidity deficiency seems to be at the core of the 70% in deferred payments

Nov. 4, 2021 • Julio Gómez

Liquidity deficiency seems to be at the core of the 70% in deferred payments. Following a recent report by the Observatory of Delinquency of the Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium E...

NFTs are booming and gaining huge interest from investors but are they beneficial for the creators?

NFTs have soared in 2021 becoming increasingly popular amongst buyers and investors. But are NFTs equally beneficial for purchaser and creator? And how easy is it to create an NFT?

Nov. 2, 2021 • Rory Kenny

If you think back to just 18 months ago it would seem improbable that a tweet would sell for just under $3 million. Yet in March this year the founder of twitter, Jack Dorsey, sold his first ev...

Powering the future of insurance with data and machine learning

firms now have access to a huge volume of consumer data generating new insights

Oct. 31, 2021 • Assaf Tayar

For as long as people have had insurance, people have tried to commit fraud – and in turn, working to ensure that anti-fraud measures are in place has always been a top priority of insurance bu...

Framework for Investments in Crypto-Assets [Part 1/3]

Part 1: Return and Risk Drivers for Crypto-Assets

Oct. 29, 2021 • Sam Ghosh

Disclaimer: This article should not be construed as investment advice. The goal of the article is to help create an investment framework for crypto-assets and the author is not responsible for...

5 Payment Trends You Need to Know for 2021

The rising adoption of payment technologies

Oct. 28, 2021 • Katie Tejada

Introduction The way businesses and consumers pay each other has evolved in recent years. Not long ago, we used to send mail a check once products and services were delivered, then echecks cam...

Why are start-ups outperforming big insurers in the pet insurance market ?

Pet insurance policy is a smart option when accidents can quickly run into thousands

Oct. 27, 2021 • Mark Colonnese

Agile businesses with a digital-first approach are winning The costs of covering vet treatment for pets that have illness or accidents can quickly run into thousands, which is why taking out a...

The Viability of Fractional CFOs in Fintech

Fractional CFOs are becoming more and more popular for startups to implement, can this trend spill over into fintech?

Oct. 25, 2021 • Samuel Feldman

What is a fractional CFOs? A fractional or outsourced chief financial officer (CFO) is an individual who has CFO experience and helps organizations with their daily financial needs on a part...

The Long Tail of Financial Markets

Consequences of more cost effective dynamics on financial markets

Oct. 15, 2021 • Andrew Beal

In 2004, Chris Anderson, then the CEO of Wired Magazine, wrote an article called the “The Long Tail” popularizing the theory that the Internet’s natural economies of scale allow companies to pr...

Social Trading: New Age Investing Explained

Thanks to advances made in fintech, social trading is now possible in the traditional and crypto markets, embodying a growing facet of investing.

Oct. 12, 2021 • Samuel Feldman

What is social trading? Social trading combines trading with social media to create an investment environment filled with collaboration and information. With access to unprecedented amounts ...

The changing role of the CFO

The CFO’s role encompasses many more tasks and considerations, such as risk responsibility and technology investment, making the role much more complex

Oct. 8, 2021 • Mark Preston

The role of the CFO has changed. In the space of a few short weeks in 2020, they had to create completely new strategies and plans that would enable their businesses to maintain their stabili...