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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! That Germany is still a place of founders, who still come up with something new even in the finance, payment and banking industry, we prove from now on in our loose episodes on new companies in the finance industry.…
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Episode 6: 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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The Easter (dis)calm in politics and the financial ecosystem
instant messages #14 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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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Revolution or doomed to failure? What do digital cats, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet and a dunk by basketball legend Lebron James have in common? The common denominator here is so-called non-fungible tokens (NFTs), one of the hottest topics in the crypto world right now. But what exactly are NFTs? And what do NFTs…
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The ECB’s digital euro – Will banks now become superfluous?
#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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Definition urgently needed: Banking as a Service / Banking as a Platform
More and more advisors and also banks are talking about the topic of contextualized / verticalized financial services. But what exactly is it? And what role do Banking as a Service – BaaS – and Banking as a Platform – BaaP – play in this? In discussions, unfortunately, buzzword often lines up with buzzword and…
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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…
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Interesting statistics on the crypto market from Statista
#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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Consensus mechanism and transaction flow
Part 2 of the series: How does Bitcoin work? This three-part series explains the technological underpinnings behind Bitcoin and its underlying distributed ledger technology (DLT). After the first part of the series introduced the history of Bitcoin and the first important building blocks, such as hash functions, private and public keys, the second part now…
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How does Bitcoin work? Part 1: Introduction and operation
Hardly any other topic is currently being discussed as intensively and controversially as Bitcoin. While Bitcoin supporters predict exponential growth for the crypto asset, critics point out that Bitcoin is nothing more than “play money”. Regardless of the heated debates, the fact is that Bitcoin is gaining traction in emerging and developing markets. Even in…
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The faces of the industry: Nicolas Kipp
May we introduce: Nicolas Kipp from Banxware 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…
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Blockchains must be able to talk to each other
#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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Look me in the eye, customer: With FIDO2 to the passwordless bank
Thanks to the FIDO2 standards, customers can finally authenticate themselves with biometric features on the Web. In our article, the IT consulting firm highlights adorsys why FIDO2 is the authentication standard of the future and why fiddling with passwords and TANs will no longer be necessary in the future – regardless of the device. adorsys…
