Exactly twelve months ago I left figo, the startup I have been working for more than five years. I left with the perfect plan: to found my own Fintech startup. But, as I have described painfully in a previous blog …
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The year is coming to an end and like last year (My books in 2018), I am blogging about the books I have read this year. Initially, my goal was to read 52 books (one per week), however, I changed …
A few weeks ago I got back to Berlin from a nearly six week trip to India. I stayed most of the time with my family-in-law in Mumbai but at the very beginning of my trip, I went for a …
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 …
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 …