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 …
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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 …
I speak with early stage FinTech founders and project owners on a daily basis. FinTech wasn’t sexy when I started at figo in 2014 but is surily now for many people. The movement of digital transformation has arrived with a …
This week I haven’t found the time to write a proper fintech focused blog post. Easter is usually a good time to refocus and recharge. And that’s exactly what I’m doing these days. Mostly while enjoying the good weather in …
In the early days of FinTech, I remember quite a few people talking negatively about the potential impact of FinTech. The reasons were plentiful: missing investors, incumbents not interested to collaborate, high entry barriers, no mass market interest… Just to name …
It was just a funny autocorrect but somehow so fitting. I tweeted about an article describing Google’s efforts to collaborate with banks in regards of PSD2 and that Google intends not to compete with banks. In that tweet I raised …
Even though some people are still trying to ignore the trend of “FinTech”, it is already a pretty crowded space. In the early times (the wave I am talking about started around 2013/14) we saw that new services were rather …
I have just finished reading my second book this year (so I am nearly on schedule with my personal one-book-per-month-rule) and thought of giving you a glimpse of it . The book is called Startup way by Eric Ries. Many …
I was hoping to finish a blog post today that I was working on this week, however, as the piece turned out to be more time consuming than expected I will have to postpone it to next week. But in …
What will be the biggest impact of PSD2: Increased competition? Pushing the bank-as-a-platform model? Forcing startups and banks to work together? All of them are applicable but in my personal opinion PSD2 can have a much bigger impact: if it …