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Digital central bank money and cash abolition
#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 Alex Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke try to explain a question of the Bitcoin & Crypto community a little bit more in 5 minutes and briefly and…
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Female Future of Payment & Banking: The #IWD 2021 Talk Roundtable
Female leaders want to make a difference The number of women in the top echelons of the financial industry is on the rise. But there is still no real equality of opportunity. How can female leaders help to better target women, even when it comes to products? On International Women’s Day, we discussed the future…
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The faces of the industry: Nazli Visne
May we introduce: Nazli Visne from IG Europe 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…
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Driving the Blockchain industry: Anita Patz
No one can avoid the topic of blockchain and cryptocurrencies now. Reports and podcasts on this industry are increasing daily and startups are sprouting like mushrooms. Investors see a bright future in blockchain, which is why the money is loose. But undeniably, the percentage of women involved with cryptocurrency is far below that of men.…
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These 50 women and investors are shaping the fintech industry
In the German FinTech environment, according to CB Insights (only) N26, Mambu, Wefox and Deposit Solutions managed to crack the 1 billion company valuation And with that, congratulations go to Valentin, Maximilian, Eugene, Julia, Frederik, Julian, Tim and your teams! A double congratulations goes to Julia, because she succeeded in two things: not only did…
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The (female) future of the financial industry
The number of women in the top echelons of the financial industry is on the rise. But there is still no real equality of opportunity. How can female leaders help to better target women? On International Women’s Day, we will be discussing the future of the finance industry from the perspective of female executives in…
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Episode 5: 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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Driving the blockchain industry: Katharina Gehra
No one can avoid the topic of blockchain and cryptocurrencies now. Reports and podcasts on this industry are increasing daily and startups are sprouting like mushrooms. Investors see a bright future in blockchain, which is why the money is loose. But undeniably, the percentage of women involved with cryptocurrency is far below that of men.…
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The Transactions 20½ – Welcome to the jungle
Our highlights of the second part of the Transactions Frankfurt, the financial centre of Germany, became the venue for the second part of Transactions 20½ – and “live again, digital again”, because unfortunately there was still no real meeting possible three months after part 1 . And even if online formats naturally offer numerous new…
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Why digital currencies? Isn’t money already digital?
#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 Alex Bechtel, Jonas Gross and Michael Blaschke try to explain a question of the Bitcoin & Crypto community a little bit more in 5 minutes and briefly and…
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Programmable payments and the role of DLT
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) will permanently change some industries. Thanks to its property as a decentralized, tamper- and censorship-resistant database, DLT contributes to generating new business models, increasing process efficiencies and establishing cross-company trust. Use cases for the technology range from industrial use cases in areas such as energy, manufacturing and logistics to financial use…
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The German payment champion – remains a dream
instant messages #13 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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Exclusive: Banxware snaps up Klarna boss Simões as CTO
On March 1, Banxware expanded its management team and brought Diogo Simões on board as Chief Technology Officer. Previously, he worked at Klarna as Lead for Decision Infrastructure. The new CTO will focus on strengthening the development of Banxware’s financial technology platform. Banxware received €4 million in seed funding just a few weeks ago from…
