Articles
Institutional Investors, No More Excuses for Bitcoin Illiteracy.
Why there is no reason for investors to delay studying bitcoin. And why bitcoin literacy will pay whether you plan to invest or not.
April 12, 2021 • Susanne Fromm
Understanding Bitcoin involves a rather lengthy process that requires doing your own research. But this process can be very rewarding, not only regarding financial returns. However, many inves...
Is mainstream adoption of digital assets much nearer than we thought?
A close look at digital assets adoption
April 9, 2021 • Dean Demellweek
Amara’s Law: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” I do not doubt that, by now, you have realised that the ret...
The Partnership Manager
A new key role in every bank and Fintech
April 8, 2021 • Joris Lochy
Thanks to Open Banking, embedded banking and banks positioning their apps as super-apps, the financial sector becomes more and more an ecosystem of parties collaborating together to execute u...
The WeBank Effect
Tapping network as a competitive advantage
April 5, 2021 • Sam Ghosh
A bank with more than 200 million retail customers , 1.7 million corporate customers , annual revenue of more than US$2 billion , and a bank that handles more than 500 million transactions ...
India, China, Singapore, Vietnam: Experiences and Business Prospects for Fintech Projects in South East Asia
What is different about Asian Fintech?
March 31, 2021 • Yulia Barabash
South East Asia has seen a Fintech boom and immense growth since 2016 but this market is still considered underpenetrated, and the reason is obvious: a limited availability of financial service...
Avoid the risk of payments system failure - test well and succeed
The importance of effective payments testing
March 29, 2021 • Anthony Walton
‘Testing’ is a word we’ve heard almost every day during the current Covid-19 crisis. Effective testing has arguably been the difference between countries winning or losing the fight against the...
Surprising Differences Between Crypto and Gold Investors
Research reveals who is the crypto investor
March 28, 2021 • Xcoins
72% of cryptocurrency investors are male, compared to 53% of gold holders Crypto investors are 10% more likely to value being successful, and 7% more likely to value learning new skills tha...
ISO 20022 and APIs will foster Payments standardization
A cross-border payment is more than moving money from one country to another
March 26, 2021 • Akhil Rao
A cross-border payment is more than moving money from one country to another. It’s also about making payments safe , efficient , and compliant with regulations, and the data about the p...
Cryptocurrency Investments: New Times, New Opportunities
The importance of licences from the investor's point of view
March 24, 2021 • Yulia Barabash
As a means of securing capital with profit performance, investments had been a reliable source of passive income for several centuries. Ten years ago the world saw a new investment vehicle emer...
The rise and rise of NFTs
An overview about the Non Fungible Tokens
March 18, 2021 • Stefan Kovach
NFTs, the abbreviation for Non Fungible Tokens, are a hot topic in the blockchain world right now as use cases start to explode, big names enter the market, and prices skyrocket. But what the ...