Leading the Way of Open Banking
- 16.04.2021
- Rafa Plantier, Head of UK & Ireland
An interview with Rafa Plantier, Head of UK & Ireland at open banking platform Tink. Financial IT: Can you please tell us more about your background? What’s the story behind the founding of Tink? Rafa Plantier (RP): From the start in 2012, our founders Daniel Kjellén (CEO) and Fredrik Hedberg (CTO) set out to transform the world of...
Women In Fintech - Interview with Nikhita Hyett, MD for Europe at BlueSnap
- 08.03.2021
- Nikhita Hyett, Managing Director for Europe
What’s your current role in tech? Can you tell us a bit about what you do? I’m the Managing Director for Europe for fintech payments platform BlueSnap. In my role, I head up the company’s European operations, with a focus on increasing BlueSnap’s footprint in the UK and Europe. This involves overseeing sales, partnerships, account management and...
LeoGaming CEO Alona Shevtsova: The Turnover of Gaming Payments During The Pandemic Has Increased by 45%
- 02.03.2021
- Alona Shevtsova, The Director
The Director of the LeoGaming Pay financial company and the CEO of the LeoGaming processing company Alona Shevtsova talks about the trends in the development of the gaming industry and tells how the pandemic affected the Ukrainian fintech sector. Can you tell us about the process of developing your company from the sector of online games to the...
Fintech and the Self-Directed Investor: Bardya Ziaian, CEO of SITTU Group, on How They Intersect
- 17.02.2021
- Bardya Ziaian, CEO & President
While the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged industries from restaurants to airlines to oil and gas, fintech has not only gotten away unscathed – it has expanded at an unprecedented rate with the help of self-directed investors (SDIs). To better understand how the growing popularity of fintech and the expanding SDI demographic will change the investing...
Hybrid Cloud - This time it means business
- 04.02.2021
- Dom Poloniecki, VP & General Manager, Western Europe & Africa
Nutanix survey finds hybrid cloud is becoming a strategic business requirement The mixing of private and public clouds to create a scalable hybrid infrastructure has long been the aspirational model for IT across the board. And, at long last, those hybrid cloud dreams are becoming a reality. Partly because barriers to implementation are falling (and...
Born during the hard times with congenital instinct to survive
- 27.01.2021
- Valentin Ivanov, Founder & CEO
2020 has threatened the financial industry's viability, causing setbacks to many businesses impacting their liquidity, credit, suspension of licenses or pushing them to bankruptcy. However, the pandemic is not solely to blame, as there were already many financial barriers existing for those businesses in the first place. The crisis merely revealed that...
Why 2021 will be the year of low-code development in financial services
- 22.01.2021
- Chris McLaughlin , Chief Product & Marketing
Few would argue that we are currently in the midst of a highly challenging period for Financial Services (FS) firms. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt almost everything, from the health and safety of employees, to the need to meet rapidly changing customer requirements. The fall-out from Brexit means that FS is still to settle down and...
Why the Serial Investor is Betting on the Future of Bitcoin
- 14.01.2021
- Sheldon Inwentash, Chairman and CEO
A collective interest has been sparked around Bitcoin over the past decade. Since its inception, Bitcoin has seen dramatic highs followed by a few crashes, but overall it has consistently retained a significant portion of its gains. To shed some light on where Bitcoin is headed, we sat down with Sheldon Inwentash, Chairman and CEO of ThreeD...