Articles
This is What Fintech Looks Like
The canvas on which fintech plays out
Sept. 1, 2021 • John Josi
Fintech is buzzing right now. For years, it was a niche corner of a highly regulated industry — now, in 2021, it’s already had its highest quarter of VC funding, ever. Q1 2021 set a record-hig...
NFTs and Intellectual Property
What rights do you get when you buy a NFT?
Aug. 30, 2021 • Andrew Beal
NFTs , or non-fungible tokens, have found their way into mainstream pop culture recently as artists, musicians and media companies have leveraged the technology to monetize IP and re-engage wi...
Big banks must step IT modernisation up as CMA mandates account ‘sweeping’
Effects of the introduction of the Variable Recurring Payments
Aug. 24, 2021 • Mike Kiersey
Earlier this month, the CMA, Britain’s competitions watchdog, announced it was giving the country’s largest banks just six months’ notice to introduce Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) in orde...
How can traditional financial services keep up with fintechs?
Opinion by Fujitsu’s CTO, Financial Services
Aug. 20, 2021 • Ian Bradbury
Long before Covid-19, the financial services landscape was experiencing drastic change. From a greater use of online banking to increasing the limit on contactless payments , banks have shifte...
Choosing A Programming Language To Build A Bank From Scratch
Building A Bank Using The Elixir Programming Language
Aug. 16, 2021 • Michael Jaiyeola
Here we take a look at the success story of Memo Bank, the first independent bank to be created in France in the last fifty years, that has just completed a new fundraising round of €13 million...
Treasury management at SMEs - Still too neglected?
SMEs are in need of an effective treasury management
Aug. 9, 2021 • Joris Lochy
Treasury management or more generally Supply Chain Finance management is still a neglected topic at many SMEs. While large international corporations make the investment into expensive tre...
Blockchain: A Neat Example of the Ingenuity of Contemporary Fintech Solutions
Blockchain in Ukraine and worldwide explained in simple terms by Julia Barabash, founder of the international legal firm specializing in Fintech
Aug. 5, 2021 • Yulia Barabash
Saying that blockchain is a universal technology would not give an actual idea of the scale: the chain technology has already been implemented successfully in completely different domains and i...
The Great Migration
Currently there are two financial infrastructures/systems operating in parallel, then what?
Aug. 2, 2021 • Andrew Beal
Since 2017, an institutional wave has been building in crypto. Four years later, 2021 is shaping up to be the crest. You can’t read the news without seeing a press release from a bank or fintec...
Buy Now Pay Later - A credit in disguise?
The fintech way to do credit
July 26, 2021 • Joris Lochy
BNPL (short for " Buy Now Pay Later ") is a hot topic in the Credit space. The recent funding round of Klarna (one of the most known BNPL players on the market) of $639 million at a v...
The DeFi Hype: Why it matters
Focusing on the underlying use cases and real value of Defi
July 14, 2021 • Nakul Gupta
Today we have a financial system that depends on status, wealth and geography - where you were born and how much access to wealth & education your parents have a disproportionate correlatio...