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Faces of the industry: René Pongratz
May we introduce: René Pongratz of 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…
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On the track of digitalization!
instant messages #15 by Marcus W. Mosen Marcus W. Mosen comments on payment or banking topics on various portals and delights his followers on twitter (@mwmosen) with pointed contributions on payment, fintech or politics. From now on you will find his monthly guest column “instant messages by…” on the latest happenings in payment, banking &…
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News: crypto ban, Coinbase and CBDC
This week, Alexander, Jonas, and Michael rank the relevant developments around digital central bank currencies (CBDCs) and cryptocurrencies in a new news episode. What’s it about this time? This episode focuses on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) digital euro and the launch of the world’s second CBDC in the first part. In addition, in part…
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Crypto buzzword bingo
#5minF – 5-Minute-Friday The principle of the “5-Minute-Friday” is probably known to many by now. This concept also fits perfectly for the popular podcast model. Every Friday, Alexander Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke explain a question of the crypto community in a short and crisp way in five minutes. Let he who is without…
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The VegTech Index: Having a “pig” on the stock market with plant-based products
For Franziska Schmid , economy and ecology are not contradictory. On the contrary: in the future, it can only work together! In her monthly column “Let’s think! Green!” she comments on sustainable developments in the banking and payment sector and calls for more will to implement them! What do Beyond Meat and Tesla have in…
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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! That Germany is still a place of founders, who still come up with something new even in the finance, payment and banking industry, we prove from now on in our loose episodes on new companies in the finance industry.…
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Episode 6: Strong women – strong voices!
These are the female faces of the industry Every Wednesday, in our popular “Faces of the Industry” series, individuals from the payments and banking industry answer our standardized questionnaire of ten questions each. Over the years, a large number of interesting answers have come together. This series also features many great women in the industry…
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The Easter (dis)calm in politics and the financial ecosystem
instant messages #14 by Marcus W. Mosen Marcus W. Mosen comments on payment or banking topics on various portals and delights his followers on twitter (@mwmosen) with pointed contributions on payment, fintech or politics. From now on you will find his monthly guest column “instant messages by…” on the latest happenings in payment, banking &…
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Definition urgently needed: Banking as a Service / Banking as a Platform
More and more advisors and also banks are talking about the topic of contextualized / verticalized financial services. But what exactly is it? And what role do Banking as a Service – BaaS – and Banking as a Platform – BaaP – play in this? In discussions, unfortunately, buzzword often lines up with buzzword and…
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The faces of the industry: Holger Teske
May we introduce Holger Teske from Gini 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…
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Consensus mechanism and transaction flow
Part 2 of the series: How does Bitcoin work? This three-part series explains the technological underpinnings behind Bitcoin and its underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT). After the first part of the series introduced the history of Bitcoin and the first important building blocks, such as hash functions, private and public keys, the second part now…
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How does Bitcoin work? Part 1: Introduction and operation
Hardly any other topic is currently being discussed as intensively and controversially as Bitcoin. While Bitcoin supporters predict exponential growth for the crypto asset, critics point out that Bitcoin is nothing more than “play money”. Regardless of the heated debates, the fact is that Bitcoin is gaining traction in emerging and developing markets. Even in…
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The faces of the industry: Nicolas Kipp
May we introduce: Nicolas Kipp from Banxware 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…
