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Reality Check: Does Open Banking deliver what it promises?
In our new series “Buzzwords in Reality Check” we will explain terms of the financial world in the future. The term Open Banking has been circulating in the financial world for some time. However, it only really picked up speed with the introduction of the PSD2 directive. But what is actually behind it? To start…
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Banks! Fintechs! Provides clarity about the CO2 footprint
For Franziska Schmid economy and ecology are no contradiction. On the contrary: in the future it can only work together! In her monthly column “Let’s think! Green! monthly column, she comments on sustainable developments in the banking and payment sector and calls for more willingness to implement them! For real? As soon as I transfer…
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Videoplattform statt Filiale: Wie nutzen deutsche Banken Youtube?
Online-First – mit dem ursprünglich für Printverlage geltenden Prinzip, ihre Inhalte zuerst über das Web auszuspielen, identifizieren sich heute sehr viele junge Menschen. Und zwar nicht nur wenn es um allgemeine Mediennutzung geht sondern auch hinsichtlich der Informationsbeschaffung über Banken- und Finanzthemen. Ein Medium dominiert: Die Google-Tochter Youtube. Wie nutzen etablierte Banken die populäre Videoplattform?…
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Nect: A simple and secure identity verification
These are our candidates for the “FinTech of the Year” : Nect Ltd. The industry has grown up and has long outgrown its infancy. There are so many companies that shape the industry but not all of them are equally well known. Who are the companies that are the glue between finance and digital technologies?…
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What has the DSGVO ever done for us?
The DSGVO & mail spam Hip Berlin Fintech people were not even born when the British comedy group Monty Python brought “The Life of Brian” to the cinema. “What has the Roman Empire ever done for us” therein is a biting scene about the perceptions of the new infrastructure of the Roman Empire for their subjugated…
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Ask me anything #21 – with Michael Spitz from Main Incubator
Ask me anything you want… Sure, I’d love to, but what can you do if you don’t always have the opportunity to do it vis-à-vis? “Ask me anything” or “AMA” is a popular format of digital platforms. A person or a topic is the focus of an expert chat. Whether it’s questions about expert knowledge…
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Die Gesichter der Branche: Ulrike Moritz
Dürfen wir vorstellen: Ulrike Moritz von finleap connect Das Arbeiten in der FinTech Branche gleicht einem Kommen und Gehen, setzt ein hohes Maß an Professionalität in einem durchaus lockeren Arbeitsumfeld voraus und ist vor allem geprägt von Innovationen sowie guten, klugen und zukunftsorientierten Ideen, so der weit verbreitete Konsens. Doch wer sind eigentlich die Köpfe…
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“A strong first serve”
Welcome to the Transactions 2020the event at which the most important heads of the Digitization-, Payment– and Banking-industry. This is a series of interviews with this year’s Transactions 2020 speakers – Today we will be Verena Thaler I’ll be available for questions and answers. Verena is Head of Strategy at Fintech Raisin. In the industry, it has long been…
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Fast, faster – Instant?
Instant messages by Marcus W. Mosen: #9 When I hear the word “instant,” I still spontaneously think of coffee, soup or cocoa first. After all, instant coffee was already around in 1881, invented by Alphonse Allais, who had been known as “Nescafé” is industrially manufactured by Nestlé. And since then, the 1999 EU directive has…
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Digital bancassurance cooperations on the advance
High-volume distribution channel – bancassurance, i.e. the combination of banking and insurance, has existed since the 1970s. The primary objective of bancassurance partnerships between banks and insurance companies is to exploit cross-selling potential. Although bancassurance has so far been limited to the offline sale of insurance policies in bank branches, it already has a worldwide…
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ECSP: “The Regulation is going in the right direction
Good things take time. 2.5 years have passed since the European Parliament and the Council, as part of their Action Plan on technology-enhanced innovation in financial services in Europe, adopted a proposal for a regulation on European commercial Crowdfunding Service Providers.“ECSP”) together with supplementary annexes and assessments. Last Monday the proposal was adopted in Brussels…
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Die Gesichter der Branche: Eugene Danilkis
Dürfen wir vorstellen: Eugene Danilkis von Mambu Das Arbeiten in der FinTech Branche gleicht einem Kommen und Gehen, setzt ein hohes Maß an Professionalität in einem durchaus lockeren Arbeitsumfeld voraus und ist vor allem geprägt von Innovationen sowie guten, klugen und zukunftsorientierten Ideen, so der weit verbreitete Konsens. Doch wer sind eigentlich die Köpfe und…
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Fintech apps are becoming increasingly popular
The corona pandemic has accelerated growth enormously: FinTech apps are becoming increasingly popular all over the world The pandemic has surprised, overwhelmed and sometimes even overwhelmed us all. Nothing was going on, (almost) all shops were closed, school and day-care centres were closed, work in the home office. Many industries are on the ground, are…
