All of the interest in financial services at the moment has gone to the newest kids on the block: cryptocurrencies. With bitcoin now eclipsing $15,000 and Coinbase adding over 300,000 users in one week alone, it’s easy to understand why.
While cryptocurrencies stole the spotlight,...
Could Fintech Be in a Bubble? While skeptics declare the fintech bubble will quickly burst, most professionals think this revolutionary field will keep on flourishing. Fintech, short for financial technology, became a main buzzword in 2015. That’s whenever a group of fintech startups emerged...
MOBILE MONEY: Could it be the future of banking?: It seems an impossible fit that mobile money service can handle transactions amounting to 1 billion dollars in a single day. Well, the most recent GSMA report furnishes us with a striking revelation posing a strong...
EU Looks To Pass Bloc-Wide Laws To Help Crowdfunding Efforts. European Union officials say all companies could benefit from crowdfunding bloc-wide laws.
The EU is passing new guidelines and rules about crowding, in the hopes that it brings in more startup companies. For example, a...
BCBS presents different scenarios in the light of emerging technology in the Banking sector. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in its latest report has analyzed the effect of Fintech firms on the emerging banking services and the future of the financial services industry.
The...
Fintech Disruptors Are Changing Entrepreneurship Rules. Entrepreneurship is a zero-sum game, not all start-ups manage to see the bright shinning sun of the fifth year of survival emerge. The reasons being:
Not everyone fights long enough to reach the last ladder. It is more...
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