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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…
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Faces of the industry: Juliane Schmitz-Engels
May we introduce: Juliane Schmitz-Engels, Head of Communications at Mastercard… 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…
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Bankers in the home office – How German banks are dealing with the new rules
The topic of “mobile working” is on everyone’s lips. And not just since the federal government recently passed new rules on working from home. In times of Corona and ever new mutations, the following applies: Employers should, where possible, offer their employees appropriate home working solutions. How is the German banking industry dealing with this?…
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I win! These companies are “Fintech of the Year” 2020
Cheer, cheer, cheer … and our fintechs are ready to cheer as they have all been awarded Payment & Banking’s “Fintech of the Year 2020” award. The coveted prize was awarded yesterday evening during one of the transactions, which due to the situation could only take place remotely. But stop! The current situation does not…
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Can money be made with Open Banking?
A guest article by Dr. Peter Robejsek, Vice-President at Mastercard. Benefiting from new technologies and driven by the PSD2 payment services directive, the number of Open Banking use cases in Germany is continuously increasing. After all, open banking offers enormous opportunities to enable innovation not only through traditional products and services, but also to substantially…
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News review in February 21 – The most important at the end
Our monthly review in February 2021 There’s never a dull moment in the fintech world. Companies are founded, investments are made and new products are launched on the market. Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything. We take care of that and summarize the most important news of the past month in a compact…
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Transactions 20½ – Thank you TSYS
One of our sponsors this year – TSYS The Corona pandemic still has us all in its grip and the infection figures are not yet falling to the extent that we can give the all-clear. This also means something for us and our event planning. Contrary to all our hopes to see each other live…
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The faces of the industry: Minou Ghaffari
May we introduce Minou Ghaffari of PAIR Finance. 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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Transactions 20 – Thank you, Fiducia & GAD IT
One of our sponsors this year – Fiducia & GAD IT The Corona pandemic still has us all in its grip and the infection figures are not yet falling to the extent that we can give the all-clear. This also means something for us and our event planning. Contrary to all our hopes to see…
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Quo vadis pension? The Riester (non)reform from a fintech perspective
A guest article by Dr. Alexander Kihm, Managing Director Raisin Pension GmbH In the last week of January 2021, there was a declaration of bankruptcy. A complete failure in pension policy. Why? And what does this actually have to do with Fintech? To understand this, we must first take a short trip back in time.…
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Germany, your payment debacle
German financial institutions first ignored the opportunities in the payment sector, then slept through them, and now they are all in business, except for the local companies. That’s shameful. The payment and banking scene is undeniably never boring. Not a month goes by without new products, banks, fintechs and payment solutions hitting the market. But…
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Applekalypse! The supposed end of multi-banking apps
For a brief moment, the world stood still and multi-banking apps faced extinction. The reason for this was Apple’s release of the new App Store guidelines and the changes that came with it. Nothing less than the demise of all multibanking apps was up for discussion. The end of Outbank, finanzblick, Finanzguru and Co seemed…
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“Green” investment opportunities increasingly popular
How do people invest their money in times of Corona and what does the search for sustainability actually have to do with it? And who is actually driving the action? In times of the pandemic, the Quirin Bank wanted to know, and in its study “Ever greener? What investors know, want and do”, they looked…
