Starting next year, most merchants in Germany have to provide a receipt for their customers after a purchase. If you have travelled or lived in other countries, this might be very normal to you. I know quite well the signs …
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A few months ago I broke up with my cofounder and stopped working on our idea to build a digital credit card service for SMEs in Europe (see my blog post). Even though I find the idea still fascinating I …
They say picking your cofounder is like picking your spouse and I guess one of the parallels is that many don’t marry their high school love… I mentioned in my last blog post that I am working on my own …
“It could be over in three months from now”. I was sitting in the house of figo co-founder André Bajorat and we were chatting about the potential of turning figo from a B2C banking app into a banking API provider. …
This week was predominated by the funding announcement of three FinTech companies: Iwoca (150m GBP debt and equity), GoCardless (75m USD equity) and Mambu (30m EUR equity). What makes these three announcements a bit special is – beside the fact …
Nearly a year ago I had written a blog post about the development of open banking around the world. The blog post was focused on the development in Asia and Oceania, mostly driven by the development in Australia. This week …
Nearly one year ago I have written about the beta launch of WhatsApp payments in India (Blog post). The service allows any payments-activated user of WhatsApp in India to send money to other WhatsApp users. However, the service is not …
This week another German bank has revealed their Developer Centre or API Hub in this case. This time it was Commerzbank. As we are approaching the deadline in most European countries to release test APIs in March and the release of …
It’s the beginning of a new year. I hope all of you had a good start into the new year and are excited about 2019. What does the new year have in store for us? In the banking / FinTech …
The year 2018 is coming to an end and it’s time for me to pick up my weekly blogging again. My last blog post is actually from May and a busy summer season gave me enough excuses to not start …