Blog about FinTech - Page 2

These days, it’s hard to imagine someone collecting their receipts to control daily spending. Saving money is an investment into a better future, but who wants to make much effort? Money-saving apps can balance it out.  Mobile solutions are always at hand to help manage spending and illustrate it with graphs and reports. On the one hand, it’s a no-brainer for...

“Ignoring technological change in a financial system based upon technology is like a mouse starving to death because someone moved their cheese.” – Chris Skinner, fintech expert and author of Digital Bank and its sequel, ValueWeb.  It’s no secret that fintech is a pioneer in adopting innovative technologies. While artificial intelligence is something alien for many industries, the market for AI in fintech...

Regulatory compliance is a challenge for financial institutions nowadays. If you’re reading this article, you probably agree, just like thousands of entrepreneurs all over the world.   Where is that compliance lifeline everyone is looking for? It lies within financial RegTech. Now we know that the RegTech market is booming: with a market size of 6.3 billion USD in 2020, it will reach 16 billion USD in 2025...

Fintech is one of the main areas of software technology used today. Banks and financial companies are actively investing money there, and the future of this market is definitely promising. It is evidenced by the growth in the number of fintech startups: from 2018 to 2020, 72 percent (from 12,000 to almost 21,000). Large-scale transformations concern, first of all, mobile solutions in...

Today, investment and trading platforms are changing faster than ever and moving to a digital world. Stock buying and selling on mobile is no longer an insufficiently explored area, but the "new black" in trading.   Smartphone stock-trading apps allow investors to work from wherever they are. So-called DIY (do-it-yourself) investment is very popular with millennials, who, according to Investopedia, are active in the stock market. But other categories of individuals also...

The latest reports show that every week more than 25 percent of people make purchases via mobile devices. Most transactions are done through the merchant's applications. For this reason, global mobile payment incomes crossed US$1 trillion in 2019.   Millennials who have grown up in the universe of gadgets are rapidly changing fintech. People worldwide are moving away from “physical” payments to digital tools, among which wallet applications (e-wallets) are of particular interest. They are useful for both sides of the deal...