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FinTech Weekly Magazine

  • 9 Examples of How IoT Is Improving Fintech

    We’ve been hearing about IoT for quite some time. It’s revolutionizing fintech, education, medicine, and many other industries.

    But what is IoT?

  • Major FinTech Trends for Financial Industry In 2020

    Technology has changed, and improved everyday life in general and the way companies conduct business. It was not so long ago that entrepreneurs, small/large business owners, investors, and so on had to physically go to the bank to access a loan, get a mortgage and carry out other transactions.

  • Top 8 Digital Banking Transformation Trends Shaping 2020

    With the rise of accessible smartphones and global internet coverage, digital banking has proven to be a lucrative development opportunity for FinTech businesses. Whether you operate as a retail banking firm or a disruptive FinTech startup, 2020 and its upcoming trends are bound to inspire change in your business model.

  • Security

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    Privilege Access Abuse can be the downfall of a financial institution

    The financial industry has always been a prime target for cybercriminals. As criminals are quickly growing more sophisticated, financial institutions must step up their cybersecurity approach and focus not just on gating data but on inside threats - specifically, those that have a root in access privilege abuse.

  • How blockchain applications can transforming society

    Blockchain applications are no longer news in the IT world. And it's pretty evident on the growth and consistency with which these applications have transformed society. This, in turn, has created more awareness for both blockchain technology and its applications, causing many people to take an interest.

  • How Technology Can Improve Your Cash Flow

    Cash flow is a worry for anyone who runs a business. Fortunately, the days of having to navigate Excel spreadsheets and paying large amounts of money for business accounts and card processing tools are (almost) over. Have a read of how technology could help keep your business healthy.

  • How to safeguard your fintech startup from cyber threats

    Financial technology or “fintech” has seen tremendous development over the past few years, but its growth on online platforms makes this industry uniquely vulnerable to security breaches. Some of the biggest U.S. companies have suffered from cybercriminal attacks (Equifax, Yahoo, Uber), which goes to show that fintech startups are even more vulnerable to hackers and need to have this issue front of mind. Since fintech companies are managing vast amounts of sensitive information, there’s a heightened need to take action from the start to ensure systems are secure from being compromised.

  • Cryptocurrency

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    Trends That Will Accelerate Crypto Adoption in 2024

    The already rising popularity and adoption of cryptocurrencies will continue in 2024. However, its adoption, though revolutionary and very promising, hasn’t been without various challenges. Since its inception, cryptocurrencies have faced significant hurdles that affected their use and acceptance.

  • 5 FinTech trends that are disrupting financial institutions

    Technology has evolved through an epic speed, over the years, to assist humans in different ways. When compared between the time it all started and what it is today, technology has progressed through innovations and technological development such as 5G, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and power.

  • How Financial Technology can help the Healthcare Industry

    Regardless of your occupation, country of origin or lifestyle choices, healthcare is something we should all keep at the back of our minds at all times. Given the digitalization of banking and personal finance management we’ve experienced in recent years, it goes without saying that the healthcare industry could benefit from adopting recent trends into their servicing portfolio.

  • Top 6 Global Fintech Trends of 2020

    The financial industry has been the most reluctant to completely migrate to more sophisticated technologies. As time went on and new security measures were introduced, the finance industry started transforming into what is called fintech.

  • Business Security

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    Strategies for Improving M&A Data Visibility and Protection

    Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) play a crucial role in the growth and expansion of businesses worldwide. They enable companies to increase market share, diversify product and service offerings, and achieve economies of scale. A successful M&A transaction can lead to significant competitive advantages and long-term value creation for the involved organizations.

  • How algorithms are making small business finance more obtainable again

    If you’re an Australian business owner, the last few years have been frustrating ones. Ever since the Royal Commission exposed their lax lending standards in 2017, the Big Four have been in lockdown mode.

  • How Blockchain is Changing the Face of the Lending Industry

    We are living in the golden age of financialization. Everything we know is already financialized or is on the verge of getting financialized.

  • How To Kick-start Your FinTech Career in 5 Simple Steps

    FinTech is one of the most innovative sectors in modern business, so it’s no wonder that it’s also one of the fastest-growing. New technologies like blockchain and machine learning are being used to produce value at a blistering rate, so already it’s hard to imagine a digital economy without FinTech. More and more financial and technical professionals alike are catching on to the fact that FinTech is transforming the digital industry, but with such a booming market it can be difficult to know how to make your mark. Here are a few simple ways to get a solid start in this exciting new sector.

  • Blockchain Business

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    Up-to-date Strategies for Searching and Hiring Solidity Developers

    Blockchain, an evolving technology that has influenced many industries, including finance, tech, real estate, and gaming, is created by various programming languages.

  • Industry 4.0 And Its Impact On The Financial Services

    Like manufacturing and other sectors of global industries, industry 4.0 has also impacted fintech and the financial services significantly. The impact of industry 4.0 precisely referred to as I-4 is very prevalent from online payments, digital loans, plastic money, cryptocurrency, online forex trading, and many other financial activities in the financial services.

  • Innovation Lessons from the Biggest Global Banks

    There’s cause for celebration in the global banking industry – it’s more profitable and much more resilient than ever after the financial crisis. However, facing the next stage of growth, everyone from startups and established banks are at an inflection point. What they do now is going to determine how they capture the next generation of clients.

  • IEO, STO, and Blockchain IPO: New Blockchain-based Methods for Fundraising

    While ICOs were touted as one of the killer applications of blockchain technology, they had a fair share of pitfalls. Throughout the years 2017 and 2018, Billions of Dollars in capital were both raised and destroyed in what can be called blockchain’s equivalent of the Dotcom bubble. While many people attribute that to fraudulent schemes that were commonplace during the ICO hype, this is only half the truth.

  • FinTech Security

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    The Importance of API Security for Protecting Financial Cloud Apps

    In today’s world, many financial services applications rely on APIs to exchange data and interact with external systems. With the increasing adoption of cloud computing, the usage of APIs has grown exponentially, making API security a top priority for financial organizations.

  • PayPal vs. Visa: Which Mobile Payment Stock Should You Buy?

    Interested in investing in the mobile payment and fintech industry? Then you’re not alone. Fintech has been one of the biggest investment trends in the past couple of years and for many investors, it has paid very well.

  • Top 5 Countries Leading in Fintech Innovation

    Today it’s easy to imagine yourself sending money to a friend, or buying a product within several seconds. It’s all thanks to the boom in fintech. The investment in fintech has been dramatically rising in the last years, as many countries want to become the hubs of cutting-edge fintech innovation.

  • How the IoT is Impacting Cryptocurrency

    Two of the most innovative and most recent explosions of technology into the modern world are, without a doubt, Internet of Things devices (IoT) and cryptocurrencies. Both have revolutionised the world in so many different ways, and when combined, amazing things are happening, all of which we’re going to explore today.

  • Artificial Intelligence

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    Why Math Is Important in Today’s Technologies

    How mathematics is used in tech? From fintech to artificial intelligence and data analysis, discover how math creates the technology we rely on today. Explore its role in innovation!

  • 2020 Fintech Trends to Watch Out For

    Fintech remains fearless in the face of traditional banking. Rapidly evolving to meet consumer needs that they never even knew they had. In ten short years, we have sped away from checkbooks and bank tellers and toward paperless, even wallet-less, payment methods. First, there were contactless card payments and now it is no longer necessary to carry a debit or visa card, just a mobile phone, and the necessary app.