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July 15, 2019
4 Trends That Will Rewire The Inner Workings Of The Fintech Industry
Fintech has become the umbrella term for technological infrastructure in the liquidation of fund assets in the capital markets, payment processing, modern digital payment lanes, and such applications of hardware and software. The last two decades especially have seen many fintech entrepreneurs innovate and fill the gap for effective, fast and cheap solutions in […]
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June 27, 2019
Is Fintech Reeling Under New Challenges?
Just recently, the startup ecosystem in the fintech saw RBI regulate and intervene to establish a beta-testing sandbox for fintech products. This move was to provide a controlled safe environment for the release of products. And then, the Fintech sector came across a new challenge to overcome. The crisis of liquidity in the NBFC […]
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June 19, 2019
Fintech Banks, All Set to Be Scrutinized Heavily by Relevant Regulators
Here’s when the fintech ventures tripled their global investments to 12.21billion USD. Clearly, since then the fintech industries have taken root in the revolution of digitization and blockchain technology. The early innovators accepted the challenges and the financial services industries took bold engaging steps to get them there. Accenture reported their insights into the […]
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April 15, 2019
Flipkart Has $60-100 Million to Back Early-Stage Firms
Financial experts use the Flipkart example to demonstrate its awesome success story. Flipkart has been at the forefront of innovative business practices for some time now. With the buying of shares up to a three-fourth stake (77%) by Walmart, Flipkart has also been in the news for it’s setting up its Hyderabad data-centre, its […]
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March 27, 2019
Bahrain Invites Indian Fintech Firms To Set Up Base
There are few fields which have seen as much a meteoric rise as fintech in recent years. There have been a lot of startups coming up around the world which work in the integration of technology to payments, and many of these are based out of India. In fact, India has more than 2,000 […]
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February 19, 2019
JP Morgan Launches Its Own Cryptocurrency
Amidst all the speculations and debates about the ability of cryptocurrencies to store value, the US banking giant, JPMorgan & Chase announced the launch of their own digital currency. The “JPM Coin” is expected to conduct a tiny fraction of the bank’s $6 trillion daily transactions. So, What is JPM Coin? The JPM coin […]
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February 7, 2019
Indian Fintech 5.4$ bn in 3 Years
It has been only around three years since the inception of the first Fintech startup in India. Since that very first day, this sector has been growing steadily. We know that in November 2016, our high-value currency notes were demonetized. Unlike many other businesses, the Fintech startups made huge benefits from this government decision. […]
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January 27, 2019
Demystifying Regtech in Fintech
Often asked questions today are “What is RegTech and why is it so important”? Let’s explore. Coined from two separate words Regulatory and Technology, RegTech has evolved to be the latest buzzword in the Fintech sector. With financial transactions being subjected to fraud and cyber crimes, transparency in financial transactions, KYC norms, full-disclosure and […]
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January 25, 2019
Fintech in Africa
Let us do a quick overview of the African Fintech network. FinTech in South African is looking to en-cash on the disruption in Africa with technology-led innovations and hopes to improve its failing economy. This should pick the global-investor curiosity and further fuel the changes occurring especially towards the aim of financial inclusion of […]
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December 28, 2018
Is India The Best Fintech Destination?
The Indian Fintech industry witnessed a boom in the early 2000s, and it has shown no signs of slowing down. We take a deeper look at India’s Fintech industry Since the beginning of 2010, India saw the dawn of the financial era. Banking institutions began seeing the advantages of technology and invested heavily in emerging […]
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December 21, 2018
How did Fintech do in 2018 in India?
Just like the previous two years have been, 2018 was a big year for the Fintech industry in India. This sector has grown with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 22%, which is about three times the GDP growth rate of the country, in the last year alone. The Fintech sector is one of […]
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November 27, 2018
M&A Consolidation in the Fintech Landscape
Fintech or financial technology is a term that can broadly apply to any kind of financial activity through digital/online means like money transfers, depositing checks through one’s smartphone, raising money for a business through the online medium, so on and so forth. Basically when one carries out any kind of financial activity only through […]
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November 23, 2018
The New Concern with Bitcoin
Bitcoin has seen massive growth over the past few years or so, mostly due to the ease with which it makes transactions possible. There is no middleman, and it helps eliminate the need for an extra payment for taxes while running a number of transactions. The blockchain is the fundamental software that bitcoin works […]
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November 21, 2018
Andhra Pradesh Government’s Initiatives to Promote Fintech in Vizag
Known as the city of destiny, Vizag recently made its presence felt in the global fintech scene. We witnessed global financial technology start-ups like SOSA, DXC, and Cardlytics announcing their launch in the city. How was this possible? Let’s consider some of the enabling factors in this article. Launch of Fintech Valley Vizag In […]
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September 22, 2018
Fintech in the Real Estate Ecosystem
The Need for Disruption in The Real Estate Sector All industries face disruptive forces. With engineering and construction being an essential contributor to global GDP and forecasted to more than double by 2020, the time for change is now. The factors affecting the real estate sector are many and makes the chances of disruptive challenges […]
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September 8, 2018
RBI To Set Up a Sandbox For Fintech
The Initiative RBI has set up a working group of inter-functional regulatory panels to study issues related to regulating the functioning of Fintech companies and banking digitally in India. With more than 30 players in Indian P2P lending currently, the market size is slated to cross the US $4-5 billion by 2023. RBI has finally […]
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August 29, 2018
RBI Forms a Unit On Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and AI
All of us were shocked to hear the news of RBI banning cryptocurrency in India. Few of us were afraid that such a promising technology would go unrecognised by the Indian Government. But after banning cryptocurrencies, the Reserve Bank of India has now formed a particular unit for the development of blockchain and artificial intelligence […]
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August 27, 2018
Using Blockchain in Healthcare
The term blockchain might sound familiar, ever since the rise of cryptocurrencies. It is a peer to peer distributed ledger technology that was primarily used as the underlying architecture for the cryptocurrencies. The significant advantage that attracts everyone to this tech is its ability to keep your data unrecognisable until it reaches the recipient, making […]
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July 20, 2018
India’s Dynamic InsurTech Transformation
Since 2012, the overall Indian economy shows a healthy growth, with the GDP rising at 7% per annum. It has also seen rapid urbanization with 30% of its population being termed urban. These figures are expected to grow steadily till 2022 and beyond. India has immense potential for life insurers, being the world’s second most […]
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July 16, 2018
A Case Study on Israeli Fintech Startups
The Israel finance technology sector has seen unprecedented growth in the last few years because of the innovations in various fields of technology and cybersecurity with local enterprises developing payment and security solutions for global multinationals, banks, etc who are lapping up the action faster than the production of the same. The sector is raising […]
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June 30, 2018
What Comes To Mind When You Hear The Term Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?
What comes to mind when you hear the term Robotic Process Automation? You would probably conjure up images of mechanical robots doing labour-intensive work like loading, unloading or assembling parts. However, this is not the case. What exactly is RPA? In RPAs, the “robot” is actually a virtual system which accomplishes various repetitive tasks and […]
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June 25, 2018
Various Scams Aided by Cryptocurrencies
Everyone would have definitely read news reports in the last few months about people who had heavily invested in cryptocurrencies and ended up with large payouts. Cryptocurrencies have changed the way the world looks at transactions. However, it has also facilitated the formulation of some huge scams since its inception. While there has been a […]
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June 1, 2018
A Contemporary Outlook on Lending
Money lending has been one of the oldest professions in human civilization. Typically, the loaned amount would attract an amount of interest, and the borrower would need to pay back the principal amount along with accrued interest, either in a single repayment or in several instalments. As financial institutions like banks began to design loans […]
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June 1, 2018
The Adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Fintech
There is hardly any aspect of business today that is untouched by technology. And when it comes to technology, the whole world is in raptures about Artificial Intelligence, using it in diverse ways, ranging from error minimization, pipeline generation, customer service, backend operations and so many more. For companies that provide computer programs and other […]
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June 1, 2018
Making Sense of Disruption in Wealth Management
In the present day, Wealth Management is one of the most dominant sectors in the financial industry. Wealth Management businesses tend to have higher growth prospects and return on investments (ROI) ratios than most other retail financial businesses. However, the Wealth Management industry is in the middle of a major shift; a new generation of […]
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June 1, 2018
The Changing Face of Cyber Security
Almost everything we do nowadays is done on the internet. Be it on the computer, or on the smartphone, by using an app or a website, almost all our activities are done using the cyber waves. Starting from when we wake up, we like to check the news on our smartphones instead of reading the […]
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