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Removes the commissions
Financial transactions in Germany should primarily be conducted via fee-based consulting. This protects the customer and would finally lead to better products. The payment and banking scene is undoubtedly never boring. Not a month goes by without new products, banks, fintechs and payment solutions coming onto the market. But who really needs all this and…
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Decision under Uncertainty: Transactions 20 Corona Update
Corona, our event and how we handle it? Event business is not the easiest thing in Corona times. And that is an understatement. No matter whether concerts, cultural or business events, it feels like a whole industry is down. In times when the number of cases is soaring like many a stock market price, it…
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Why platforms are already the better banks
The future belongs to platforms If you look at the rapid growth of platforms over the last three years, one thing quickly becomes clear: the future belongs to the platforms. This is no longer a platitude, but an everyday occurrence, both in e-commerce (with e.g. Amazon, Zalando, Otto or Wayfair), in transportation (with e.g. Uber,…
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Higher investment than expected: Tomorrow can count on Crowd
Cheers in Hamburg: “2,052 investors* have subscribed for virtual shares worth 3,000,000. And are now part of Tomorrow in a completely new way. The whole team is looking forward to this next step! We thank you all for your untiring support” the Social Media Team tweeted yesterday, Wednesday. A month ago, the Hamburg Neo-Bank Tomorrow…
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Data breakdown at Scalable Capital: A storm in a teacup?
News that no one wants to hear – investors don’t, founders don’t, and managers don’t. Last Monday it was announced that the digital asset manager scalable capital has come to a data leak. Founder Erik Podzuweit went on the offensive and informed that around 20,000 customers were affected by the leak. A fifth of the…
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Die Gesichter der Branche: Birte Goslowski
Dürfen wir vorstellen: Birte Goslowski von finleap connect. Das Arbeiten in der FinTech Branche gleicht einem Kommen und Gehen, setzt ein hohes Maß an Professionalität in einem durchaus lockeren Arbeitsumfeld voraus und ist vor allem geprägt von Innovationen sowie guten, klugen und zukunftsorientierten Ideen, so der weit verbreitete Konsens. Doch wer sind eigentlich die Köpfe…
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Reality Check: Does Open Banking deliver what it promises?
In our new series “Buzzwords in Reality Check” we will explain terms of the financial world in the future. The term Open Banking has been circulating in the financial world for some time. However, it only really picked up speed with the introduction of the PSD2 directive. But what is actually behind it? To start…
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Banks! Fintechs! Provides clarity about the CO2 footprint
For Franziska Schmid economy and ecology are no contradiction. On the contrary: in the future it can only work together! In her monthly column “Let’s think! Green! monthly column, she comments on sustainable developments in the banking and payment sector and calls for more willingness to implement them! For real? As soon as I transfer…
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Videoplattform statt Filiale: Wie nutzen deutsche Banken Youtube?
Online-First – mit dem ursprünglich für Printverlage geltenden Prinzip, ihre Inhalte zuerst über das Web auszuspielen, identifizieren sich heute sehr viele junge Menschen. Und zwar nicht nur wenn es um allgemeine Mediennutzung geht sondern auch hinsichtlich der Informationsbeschaffung über Banken- und Finanzthemen. Ein Medium dominiert: Die Google-Tochter Youtube. Wie nutzen etablierte Banken die populäre Videoplattform?…
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What has the DSGVO ever done for us?
The DSGVO & mail spam Hip Berlin Fintech people were not even born when the British comedy group Monty Python brought “The Life of Brian” to the cinema. “What has the Roman Empire ever done for us” therein is a biting scene about the perceptions of the new infrastructure of the Roman Empire for their subjugated…
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Die Gesichter der Branche: Ulrike Moritz
Dürfen wir vorstellen: Ulrike Moritz von finleap connect Das Arbeiten in der FinTech Branche gleicht einem Kommen und Gehen, setzt ein hohes Maß an Professionalität in einem durchaus lockeren Arbeitsumfeld voraus und ist vor allem geprägt von Innovationen sowie guten, klugen und zukunftsorientierten Ideen, so der weit verbreitete Konsens. Doch wer sind eigentlich die Köpfe…
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“A strong first serve”
Welcome to the Transactions 2020the event at which the most important heads of the Digitization-, Payment– and Banking-industry. This is a series of interviews with this year’s Transactions 2020 speakers – Today we will be Verena Thaler I’ll be available for questions and answers. Verena is Head of Strategy at Fintech Raisin. In the industry, it has long been…
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Fast, faster – Instant?
Instant messages by Marcus W. Mosen: #9 When I hear the word “instant,” I still spontaneously think of coffee, soup or cocoa first. After all, instant coffee was already around in 1881, invented by Alphonse Allais, who had been known as “Nescafé” is industrially manufactured by Nestlé. And since then, the 1999 EU directive has…
