Interview

  • Driving the Blockchain Industry – Dorothea Ysenburg of Mastercard.

    Driving the Blockchain Industry – Dorothea Ysenburg of Mastercard.

    Topics like blockchain and cryptocurrencies have long been part of daily news coverage, and investors see a bright future in blockchain and its companies. But although more and more players are addressing the issue, women are still rare in the industry. In our series, we therefore present women who are shaping the blockchain industry. The…

  • Driving the blockchain industry: Sylvie Durach of hopa

    Topics like blockchain and cryptocurrencies have long been part of daily news coverage, and investors see a bright future in blockchain and its companies. But although more and more players are addressing the issue, women are still rare in the industry. In our series, we therefore present women who are shaping the blockchain industry. The…

  • Driving the blockchain industry: Romina Bungert of Centrifuge.

    Driving the blockchain industry: Romina Bungert of Centrifuge.

    Topics such as blockchain and cryptocurrencies have long been part of daily news coverage and investors see a great future in blockchain and its companies. But although more and more players are addressing the issue, women are still rare in the industry. In our series, we therefore present women who are shaping the blockchain industry.…

  • Berlin Finance Initiative builds transatlantic bridge for fintechs to the U.S.

    Berlin Finance Initiative builds transatlantic bridge for fintechs to the U.S.

    Berlin is still better than its reputation and especially in the area of fintechs, the German capital remains unchallenged in the DACH region. But like all other fintechs, the Berlin-based companies must inevitably ask themselves after their first successful steps on the domestic market how they are to continue. Expansion into the U.S. is often…

  • re:cap founder Becker: “Turbulence in the market is an opportunity”.

    re:cap founder Becker: “Turbulence in the market is an opportunity”.

    VC investments have declined significantly in recent weeks and months. New and established fintechs alike must now get creative and rethink their funding mix. Many are also looking for alternative growth capital in the process. Paul Becker founded the fintech re:cap in 2021. The Berlin-based company enables financing for digital companies with recurring revenues, for…

  • Breathless through stock turbulence: The Helene Fischer Phenomenon

    Breathless through stock turbulence: The Helene Fischer Phenomenon

    Stocks are without alternative, one reads everywhere. But many investors are now starting to flutter: Breathless in the face of stock turbulence – somewhat loosely based on Helene Fischer. So what makes investors tick at the moment, what is their state of mind? Behaviorist and financial expert Manfred Hübner talks about the FOMO phenomenon, the…

  • The faces of the industry: Stephan Spies from adorsys

    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,…

  • The faces of the industry: Nadja Hofmann from Exporo and PROPVEST

    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,…

  • Faces of the industry: Stephan Krehl

    Faces of the industry: Stephan Krehl

    May we introduce: Stephan Krehl from Agicap 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…

  • No LEI, no trade: LEIs become compulsory for transactions that are subject to reporting

    No LEI, no trade: LEIs become compulsory for transactions that are subject to reporting

    Due to the requirements of BaFin and additional European regulations, all transactions subject to reporting must be carried out with an LEI. For example, in the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and the EU Financial Markets Regulation (MiFIR), ESMA has stipulated that the LEI should be used to clearly identify the counterparties…

  • The faces of the industry: Christin Friedrich

    The faces of the industry: Christin Friedrich

    May we introduce: Christin Friedrich from Innovestment GmbH 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…

  • Faces of the industry: René Pongratz

    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…

  • The faces of the industry: Holger Teske

    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…