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In Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, also referred to as the DACH region, the insurtech space is growing at a promising pace. Over the past year, the sector has increased by 45%, rising...
Women have made great strides in the financial sector in recent years. However, they are still woefully underrepresented in leadership positions within fintech companies. This is a problem not just fo...
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Many big companies in the fintech world cut jobs in the past month. And yet Stripe’s announcement it would lay off 14% of its workforce still made a splash, proving that unicorns and decacorns are not...
With every new year, fintech solutions become more and more advanced, making financial transactions and management easier than ever. Developments including real-time payments, open banking and blockch...
Fintech has moved from the fringes of European finance to its core, but performance varies widely. If all countries could match the best in region, the economic benefits would be considerable. The det...
Years of low interest rates, difficult consumer, corporate, and investment banking business conditions, and a tricky macroeconomic environment have squeezed many core areas of business for banks. In t...
The demand for challenger banks has surged in recent years, a phenomenon mainly triggered by the pandemic when consumers increasingly embraced digital solutions. With the global economy attempting to ...
Many analysts see open banking and open finance becoming game changers for banks and credit unions to gain revenue as they find ways to ultra-personalize broad customer relationships and widen their o...
Marqeta, a fintech company focused on payments services, is launching a suite of new banking products in a major push to deepen its relationships with customers which include Coinbase, Uber and DoorDa...
Digital transformation is evolving, and so is the fintech industry by implementing AI trends and leveraging several benefits, such as optimizing productivity, increasing ROI, and enhancing security. F...
IN BRIEF Stability AI and Jasper – two startups that make AI software that auto-generates images, text, and other stuff – have each reached so-called unicorn status (valued at over $1 billion) after b...