Young and innovative companies across Europe received as much money for their development last year as never before. Investment in start-ups rose by 11 percent in 2018 to 21.3 billion euros, as the consulting firm EY announced on Tuesday. Despite Brexit most of the money flowed into British startups –…
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Is this a hostel or is not it? It certainly looks like it on the windowless corridors. Near a communal toilet, a man in a white bathrobe and flip-flops talks to another resident. In front of the rooms around them is “Miami” and “Rio de Janeiro” on the floor mats.…
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About four years ago, Kaya Taner and Emma Tracey hooked up the startup Honeypot. In the meantime, 50 employees worked for the start-up company, a “tech-focused job platform”. Well-known companies such as Zeiss, ProSiebenSat1 and zalando rely on Honeypot. The goals of Taner and Co. are great. “We want to…
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The industry has grown and grown out of its infancy. There are so many companies that shape the industry but not all are equally known. Who are the companies that are the glue between finance and digital technologies? Raisin / WeltSparen GmbH The most attractive savings and investment products from…
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The compliance period for companies to comply with PSD2 rules expired on 14 March 2019. The rules require that old banking and financial services providers who maintain online client accounts must provide an application programming interface (API) to allow new operators, third parties ( Third Party Providers, TPP) to develop…
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In terms of regulatory compliance, fintech have a double risk. On the one hand they must prevent and detect irregular operations on their platforms, on the other hand, they must also protect the safety of their customers. Fintech or financial technology institutions have become indispensable in the global economy Among…
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The Spanish Association of Fintech and Insurtech (AEFI) has announced during its General Assembly that it is working on a plan to create regional delegations beyond Madrid and Barcelona where they work traditionally. North, South, Catalonia, Levante and Center could be those regional delegations. The regional ambassadors of AEFI will…
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Konrad Friedrich is now strengthening the team of the Viennese tracking start-up Waytation as Customer & Experience Officer. The startup evaluates visitor flows at trade fairs and congresses. About this startup The Viennese startup Waytation specializes in the evaluation of visitor flows via bluethooth tags – these include, for example,…
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Later that year, some of the founding fathers of the Latin American fintech scene were able to meet; Alejandro Cosentino (Afluenta), Nicolas Shea (Cumplo), Vicente Fenoll (Kubo.financiero) and Dan Gertsacov (then with Lenddo). But, more importantly, with your support, we began to sow the seeds of a Fintech movement that…
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South Korean blockchain startup Metadium is partnering with the video game engine Unity to integrate its programming tool (SDK) into Unity’s developer platform. The “Engine” is the software framework from which developers create a video game. Called the Meda ID System, which is used to manage users’ identification data, the…
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