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Bitcoin is a bubble, so what?
#5minF – 5-Minutes-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 tries to explain a Bitcoin & Crypto community question in a bit more detail in 5 minutes and briefly and crisply address the desired topic. With…
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The digital euro – on the way to tokenized money
Digital vs digitized money In a four-part podcast series, Alexander Bechtel and Manuel Klein show how the euro can be “digitised”, what different forms the digital euro can take and what hurdles have to be overcome to make the digital euro a reality. Terms such as cryptocurrencies, CBDC, stablecoins as well as tokenized fiat money…
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January 21 News Review
FinTech Podcast #304 Contrary to the hopes of many, 2021 starts much like the last one ended. What should we say about January? Oh yes, the American Capitol was stormed by violent Trump supporters, an unprecedented attack on democracy, yet Trump is gone, Biden has moved into the White House as a sworn-in president, Armin…
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Merry Christmas! Christmas with Payment & Banking
What kind of a crazy… – Yeah, I know! Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how green are your leaves! Despite the Covid 19 pandemic, the Christmas season is something traditional and also really nice. The girocard of all celebrations, so to speak. And even at Payment & Banking, Christmas is celebrated in one way…
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Libra becomes Diem and is (almost) ready to launch
In the new episode of Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock’n’Roll, which we want to illustrate today because of the really good topic with us, speak Jonas Gross and Alexander Bechtel with Julien Le Goc, Director of Policy at the Diem Association, formerly known as the Libra Association. Julien speaks candidly about the reasons behind the renaming…
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Twint – the mobile payment system of Switzerland
FinTech Podcast #294 Switzerland. Blue sky, high mountains and a German who somehow doesn’t want to be German. Special case. Expensive. Headstrong. Clichés that we Germans like to cultivate towards our southern Alpine neighbours. But as so often happens, the clichés are one thing. They quickly rattle on to the granite hard ground of reality,…
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Cloud banking and its regulatory requirements
FinTech Podcast #288 The digitisation of services and globalisation have led to significant changes in the methods of data collection, access and use. Especially in the banking industry.This has recently contributed to an increased interest in cloud computing as a means of supporting the digitisation of financial services. This is not just about storing data…
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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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Kontist – tax return cleverly thought out!
FinTech Podcast #283 Just the word tax return alone triggers thoughts of flight, nausea and aversion. Especially for the self-employed, sorting and sorting, recalculating and transferring amounts to the tax office is often not only an annoying evil, but also time-consuming and simply unwelcome paperwork. So far, Kontist has made a name for itself primarily…
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Ask me anything #20 – with Frank Schwab from FinTech Forum
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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The Banxware Story
FinTech Podcast #281 Sometimes even old hands dare to try something new – also Miriam Wohlfarth, who was THE face of Ratepay for many years, and Jens Röhrborn, also no stranger to the scene, have joined forces with two other founders, Fabian Heiß and Aurel Stenzel, and launched Banxware. There are already rumours in the…
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Die News im August
FinTech Podcast #280 Die Ferienzeit ist mehr oder weniger vorbei – Corona immer noch da. Unsere Kinder kehren in den Alltag zurück, alles mit Maske. Back to the new normal. Und auch die Büros unsere Branche füllen sich wieder mit Leben. Mit anderen Worten, die Pressemitteilungsmaschinen sind in Gang, denn auch im August war wieder…
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Ask me anything #19 – mit Stephan Heller von FinCompare
Als Payment & Banking das neue Interviewformat startete, war es zunächst das Team, das neue Gäste für das nächste „Ask me anything“ vorschlug. Nun aber hat sich das Format etabliert, sodass Vorschläge mittlerweile auch aus der Community kommen. „Wäre nicht der oder die interessant?“ oder „Soundso habe ich schon so oft auf der Bühne gesehen,…
