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Traffic light coalition wants to dare “more progress”. What does that mean?
instant messages #18 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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Of developments, dynamics, opportunities and retrospectives
“Currently, we have an opportunity in Europe to lay the groundwork for the next stage of digitization.” It’s that time again – the year is coming to an end. Another year of pandemics, in which the focus also continued to be on digitalization. This has not stopped at the financial industry either and we have…
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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…
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Gender diversity in Germany: ‘Pains and Gains’ in German FinTechs
Short study by Dr. Philine Sandhu (HWR Berlin) & Achim Oelgarth(Berlin Finance Initiative) In Germany, FinTechs are becoming an increasingly strong driver for the economy. German FinTechs raised €2.1 billion in capital in the first half of 2021 alone, two-thirds of which was raised in Berlin. Trend: still rising, as the latest mega-financing round at…
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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,…
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The Convergence of API and Token Economy – A Breeding Ground for Innovation
The effects of digital structural change remain fundamental and unstoppable. It is changing the way corporate and commercial structures develop, how value is generated in the future and how we interact with each other. Much of what we could only guess at yesterday is already part of routine everyday life today and may become obsolete…
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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,…
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Germany Finance publishes the German Fintech Report 2021
Germany Finance, the working group of the financial centres in Germany, has published the German Fintech Report 2021 for the first time. The comprehensive study shows how diverse the German fintech industry is and where its focus lies. This was based on data on the German fintech ecosystem from the startup platform Startbase, which is…
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The CryptX – the new event of Payment & Banking
We’re doing it again! After several years of event experience and various BEX, PEX and TRX series, we at Payment & Banking are launching a new conference format as early as next month: CryptX. Because we believe the time is ripe to bring together the right people from the industry to talk and discuss about…
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The transformation: e-commerce, payment and banking are moving closer together
Guest article by Cihan Duezguen, Strategic Sales Director at Worldpay from FIS Companies such as PEG (Otto Payment), Zalando Payments, Paymenttools (Rewe) or C24 are discovering the possibilities of the payment industry. The value chains are being solved more and more “in-house” and enriched with Big Data. E-commerce, payment and banking are moving closer together.…
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Bitcoin as digital gold: what makes the crypto asset interesting as an inflation hedge?
A guest commentary by Sebastian Warnke, Managing Director of Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange GmbH Loose monetary policy to combat the Corona pandemic is leading to rising inflation rates in many countries. In order to hedge against this, investors have in the past primarily relied on hard assets such as gold. Meanwhile, however, the digital asset…
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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! From now on, we will prove in our loose episodes on new fintechs on the market that Germany is still a place of founders who still come up with something new in the finance, payment and banking industry. We’re…
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Thank you, DKB! The sponsors of the PEX in the presentation.
Without the right sponsors, it would all be nothing. And even if in year two of the pandemic the Payment Exchange had to take place differently than we had hoped, we thank our loyal sponsors who believe in us and remain faithful to us. On the occasion of the PEX theme week from 27.9. until…
