Articles
The future of fintech: change or die
Opinion about the future of fintech
Oct. 24, 2020 • Sam Boboev
In 2010-2012, something began to change in people's behavior. The changes happened so slowly and naturally that most of us did not even pay attention to them. 10 years ago, the iPhone 4 w...
Shaping the future of digital finance: THe EU Digital Finance Package
Oct. 11, 2020 • Dennis Hillemann
At the end of September, the European Commission adopted its Digital Finance Package , a complex set of initiatives aiming to achieve a comprehensive EU regulatory framework for financial serv...
A Future for Financial Services - The Banking Experience Canvas
Oct. 9, 2020 • Dassana Wijesekera
What might the future of banking look like? The consensus today is that this question must be answered starting with a laser focus on the consumer’s need, and rightly so. There is no doubt that...
When Usability and User Experience are no longer enough
Experts introduce Expected Usability, let's find out what it is
Sept. 1, 2020 • Clariter
In the era of the experience economy (Gartner), the idea of the prevalence of the user experience over usability and quality in use is becoming more and more insistent. We are also witnessi...
The EU draft for crypto regulation: Getting blockchain somewhere (an inconvenient truth)
Regulation going mainstream
Aug. 12, 2020 • Dennis Hillemann
The blockchain community should acknowledge: Regulation will be its great chance to go mainstream, because the mainstream business world won’t care otherwise about it – time to accept an inconv...
3 reasons why Germany’s blockchain plans for digital securities are fantastic
Germany wants to digitze the world of shares, stocks, securities – via a soft evolution instead of a hard revolution. And No. 3 is a must-read.
Aug. 12, 2020 • Dennis Hillemann
Digitization has led to significant changes in many areas. The financial markets cannot ignore these new developments either. One of these innovations in recent years has been the development...
Fintech investment is not dead it is just different
Investment in UK fintech dropping by 39% in the first half of 2020
Aug. 1, 2020 • Sam Boboev
If you have been following my recent posts then you already understand that it is not easy to be fintech anymore. This case is especially true when it comes to fundraising. Investors are gett...
How No-Code Development Drives Digital Transformation in Financial Services
May 22, 2020 • Tal Daskal
Digital disruption is affecting the financial services market – you’d likely know this if you are a customer of a bank or insurer. Digital transformation in financial services is on the rise be...
Societe Generale performs the first financial transaction settled with a Central Bank Digital Currency
A new era for the interbank market
May 21, 2020 • SocGen
The Société Générale announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the first financial transaction settled with a Central Bank Digital Currency(CBDC) . Societe Generale SFH, the c...
Keeping data in the vault: insider breach risk in financial services
The data are the new gold bars
May 14, 2020
Financial services organisations are trusted with far more than just money; they are also responsible for keeping customers’ highly sensitive personal and financial data under lock and key. We’...