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Gender diversity in Germany: ‘Pains and Gains’ in German FinTechs
Short study by Dr. Philine Sandhu (HWR Berlin) & Achim Oelgarth(Berlin Finance Initiative) In Germany, FinTechs are becoming an increasingly strong driver for the economy. German FinTechs raised €2.1 billion in capital in the first half of 2021 alone, two-thirds of which was raised in Berlin. Trend: still rising, as the latest mega-financing round at…
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The faces of the industry: Stephan Spies from adorsys
Working in the FinTech industry is like coming and going, requires a high degree of professionalism in a thoroughly relaxed working environment and is above all characterised by innovation as well as good, clever and future-oriented ideas, according to the widespread consensus. But who are actually the brains and movers behind these creative thought processes,…
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The Convergence of API and Token Economy – A Breeding Ground for Innovation
The effects of digital structural change remain fundamental and unstoppable. It is changing the way corporate and commercial structures develop, how value is generated in the future and how we interact with each other. Much of what we could only guess at yesterday is already part of routine everyday life today and may become obsolete…
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The faces of the industry: Nadja Hofmann from Exporo and PROPVEST
Working in the FinTech industry is like coming and going, requires a high degree of professionalism in a thoroughly relaxed working environment and is above all characterised by innovation as well as good, clever and future-oriented ideas, according to the widespread consensus. But who are actually the brains and movers behind these creative thought processes,…
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Germany Finance publishes the German Fintech Report 2021
Germany Finance, the working group of the financial centres in Germany, has published the German Fintech Report 2021 for the first time. The comprehensive study shows how diverse the German fintech industry is and where its focus lies. This was based on data on the German fintech ecosystem from the startup platform Startbase, which is…
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The CryptX – the new event of Payment & Banking
We’re doing it again! After several years of event experience and various BEX, PEX and TRX series, we at Payment & Banking are launching a new conference format as early as next month: CryptX. Because we believe the time is ripe to bring together the right people from the industry to talk and discuss about…
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The transformation: e-commerce, payment and banking are moving closer together
Guest article by Cihan Duezguen, Strategic Sales Director at Worldpay from FIS Companies such as PEG (Otto Payment), Zalando Payments, Paymenttools (Rewe) or C24 are discovering the possibilities of the payment industry. The value chains are being solved more and more “in-house” and enriched with Big Data. E-commerce, payment and banking are moving closer together.…
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Introducing 5 new fintechs we don’t know yet
Everything already there, everything already seen? Not true. What else is there to come? A lot! From now on, we will prove in our loose episodes on new fintechs on the market that Germany is still a place of founders who still come up with something new in the finance, payment and banking industry. We’re…
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Thank you, DKB! The sponsors of the PEX in the presentation.
Without the right sponsors, it would all be nothing. And even if in year two of the pandemic the Payment Exchange had to take place differently than we had hoped, we thank our loyal sponsors who believe in us and remain faithful to us. On the occasion of the PEX theme week from 27.9. until…
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Thank you, Mastercard! The sponsors of the PEX in the presentation.
Without the right sponsors, it would all be nothing. And even if in year two of the pandemic the Payment Exchange had to take place differently than we had hoped, we thank our great sponsors who believe in us and remain loyal to us. On the occasion of the PEX theme week from 27.9. By…
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inVenture gives private investors access to venture capital funds
Leaving money exclusively in the bank is no longer a good idea. There, “thanks” to negative interest rates, it becomes less, not more, the longer it sits. The solution is to invest in different asset classes in a diversified manner. Young fintechs in particular are establishing themselves on the market because they minimize the hurdles…
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News: These are the most important crypto news of September 2021
Crypto and blockchain news is taking an increasingly prominent place in news coverage. What are the European Central Bank’s (ECB) plans, what’s next for CBDCs globally and what are banks and corporates doing? It is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain an overview here. But don’t worry! We’ll take care of that for you and summarize…
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The issue of money creation: How is new money actually created?
In this series of articles, Manuel Klein and Alexander Bechtel write about the fundamentals of our monetary system and what will change in the future with the introduction of digital money. Here you can find all articles of this series published so far. This article is about the money creation process. How is new money…
