Since all of us have started to use the word FinTech, the industry has seen a few changes already. In total, we can see three waves of FinTech development (see also my Slideshare of 2016 about this development): Wave #1: FinTech …
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Until today we have organised four Bankathons and it all started in April 2015. For the second half of 2017 we are planning another two events, in Amsterdam and Berlin. Additionally, there are more and more other FinTech hackathons which are mostly …
This week was time again for the EXEC conference. It is probably one of the biggest FinTech conferences in Germany and personally my favourite FinTech conference in Germany. This time a little different since it was first time in Berlin …
“Lars, you are seeing so many new FinTech services every day. What is really your favourite FinTech service/app/solution/…?” I have been asked this question quite often in the last few months. FinTech is spreading and new services become available now …
This week bunq finally launched in Germany. The core offering of bunq is a bank account which is fully controllable through its mobile app. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? But there are a few differences to its rival N26 from Germany. bunq …
Uber has disrupted the taxi business around the world and has removed friction like no other from a complex industry. That is the reason the company is often being used as an example for the financial service industry. Personally, I …
This week was pretty busy and there was a lot of material for different kinds of blog posts. The biggest news was probably the overdue RTS which was finally released by EBA. However, I am not going to write about …
Today is my birthday. After New Years this is probably the best day for One to take a step back and think about what we are doing with our life at the moment and what the goal is for the …
This week I was part of a panel during the Money20/20 Europe roadshow in Frankfurt. The topic of the panel was PSD2 and all panelist had – more or less – the same opinion. And this is quite typical for …
I’ve aimed for one blog post per week and have already missed out the second week. Cannot say it was the best start. Even though I can blame my first winter in Berlin that caused my illness, rather I will …