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Am curious how the customer acquisition cost will develop for payments...it was defacto zero for banks...and they made money on the...
Finch Capital is a Financial Technology Investment firm founded in the fall of 2013. We invest in high growth companies primary in EMEA and prefer to invest after the seed round, when there is proof of concept and there are some revenues.
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Am curious how the customer acquisition cost will develop for payments...it was defacto zero for banks...and they made money on the...
2015: Year we expect to see many more partnerships between established players and start-ups to accelerate expansion/growth
The battle for the identity, consumer relationship at global scale!
The FinTech momentum continues! Global investments in fintech: From $520m in 2010 to $2800m in 2014
Cracking the identity war! The question for me is whether the identity part will be unbundled from the phone....e.g. if I switch from...
Editor’s note: Ken Miller was VP of risk management at PayPal executive and adviser to Square. Recently, PayPal announced several...…
Great to see how the crypto use cases are developing, and focusing on real problems with ±9% cost of sending money in a digital world,...
Great lessons, also fully support the Vanguard point as it has the lowest cost over manageable assets! Translating these lessons into...
Innovation should help to reduce costs with 10% p.a. coming years as well as increase revenues!
There is downside of FinTech...who and what do you hammer in case your digital wallet is not working....
Think with the current low interest environment we will see many more institutional as well as Private money flowing into the sector!...
great promise...look forward to see the impact!
Interesting to see the gap between the digitalization in EMEA versus the US...in Northern Europe for the last 5-10 years consumer...
If this happens at all.....this would probably reset some of the advertisement dynamics!
Offline and online conversion ongoing. Also surprisingly to many several cash handling solutions are growing fast e.g. for retailers,...
Interesting swap of investor base, a swap of Visa for Mastercard and wondering how they structure the partnerships while being a listed...
On itself interesting confirmation......but that these breaking insights had to come out of the university of Luxemburg came with...
We expect more Banks and Wealth Managers to launch their own platform....question is what the implications are for the Bettermentm,...
The growing challenge for Financial Institutions is the IT spend, growing as a result of regulation, digitalization and keeping legacy...
Bitcoin disrupting Remittances...Disruption creates friction, Uber in the Taxi world....Blockchain in the Payments world
40 billion installed base!
Consolidation happening...joining forces of banks together has worked (e,g. Ideal) to fight the battle versus paypal in the past and...
Interesting and valuable set of predictions from uptime to Bitcoin and a blend from old and new technologoes
Several advises from uptime to Bitcoin e.g. Bitcoin transaction database "has been up and running for six years and all the hackers in...…
French banks have teamed up like the Dutch did to conquer PayPal...in the Netherlands this was successfully done via Ideas
the online offline convergence! who will get most out of this.....Banks/card companies...or the social networks? More and more trending...
Good news for BitCoin as well as other cryptocurrencies
Crypotcurrencies could slash remittance cost with 2/3rd!
Kensho has been an impressive approach, curious to see how the GS partnership plays out
IT landscape rationalization continues...expect that in 10 years from now Banking will be made more simple, lower cost and more...
Emerging markets will be a fundamental game changer next decade to have 3 billion new people getting online, imagine how this will...
Growing partnerships in the FinTech ecosystem
Interesting financial analysis of the SME lending models re the CAC/LTV metrics and challenges and implications for financials vs...
Interesting facts on the % substituting banks as well as the % GDP growth the lending platforms bring
Love this space, especially the mid market segment for who cyber can kill
Would nicely strengthen core-tier one ratios of the banks.e.g. would add ± 1 bn to Barclays capital!
Apple has almost a billion payment cards on file, also impressive to see the gap with #2
Female Financial Advisers Sought as Boomers Need Planning....the net effect of digitalization seems not be taken into account....as the...
Interesting facts on ROBo, strong solution for creating high quality affordable solutions for affluent investors.
Interesting watch
Always surprised by the Digital Officer debates....would rathe reargue for a digital minded CEO and a Chief Old world reporting to...
Interesting lessons and ideas how Financial Services can be disrupted further. Transparency on Quality...imagine all wealth advisors...
Big opportunity for Financial Services...to date security push back has limited potential, we see some first solutions and workarounds...
Massive opportunities to make the next step in Insurance!
Mobile will play a key role in the solution as 1 bn of unbanked will become online next years via mobile!
Dictionary is one...commercial success is historically not correlated with oxford dictionary
Google’s rocky relationship with the EU looks like it could be getting rockier. The European Parliament’s new draft motion, spotted by...…
31% of GDP in Kenia spend on the back of mPesa, and with mobile remittances allowing for radical cut in average cost cut of remittance,...
We of course love this research...as a sector fund Focused on FinTech!
Continues to be a significant opportunity and bottleneck to authenticate and digitize the on boarding and signing processes
Love it, great solutions for one of the biggest issues...identification...not
Very interesting factoring models are emerging that take out multibillion inefficiency in SME lending. Models in Media, Apple, Google...
Increasing adaptation getting in place, you sometime wonder whether this train still can be stopped....or
Great partnership curious to see the impact
Another new bank.....with ±100% of the bankable population already being banked in the UK, and Atom also being launched...curious to...
In 2013, someone became a victim of identity fraud every two minutes, totaling 13.1 million people. Identification....a big issue Banks...
Interesting comparison, question that is unanswered is what is the Skype in Bitcoins...is it Blockchain or is it...
....But while the app has now been turned on internationally, the hardware has yet to arrive.
Great solutions for real problems
Fines....I would assume if Banks get a fine for locking out customers...the customers would get the benefit of the fine....
The Battle for FX....lots we expect to happen...and than the banks drop the FX rates....
Interesting comments in the report...UK won in Europe...., the UK’s ‘entrepreneurial aspirations’ were valued as weak by the GEI.
Most see Bitcoin as a commodity/asset, Finland as a Financial Service. Ultimately, the underlying bit coin technology might become a...
Business minded regulation
Super cool! What happens to the buildings if the stock tanks?
Although operating costs come down....acquisition costs seem to go up...at the end the value is in the data...however with the API's...
if 25% of the bankruptcies are caused by short term finance issues....why do the others go bust if they have no short term finance...
The war for new talent...shortage of 250,000 analysts by 2015!
#Bitcoin is the most significant technological advancement since the browser. Bitcoin at pre-Mosaic inflection point according to panel
With mobile banking growth on the rise....hopefully soon no need for cheques in Africa
The battle got started.....!
Cracking the authentication code...one click financial services....needs to save, lend, borrow and invest are likely to stay....the way...
As Steve Jobs said..."“It's really hard to design products by consumer research. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until...
Another invoice supply chain finance company....would expect a consolidation to happen in the coming 12-24 months
10,000 transactions in one day, as well as milli payments....payments reinvented!
Insurance being reinvented via internet of things....your driving behavior, do you lock your house, your lost phone are you sloppy or...
Interesting comments...mobile banking should be more than a smaller website...
the end of the advisor.....and analyst
Complete payment overhaul has started.....banks more and more are pushed to become a commodity factory....
May be it is cheaper to give everybody ....the lean start-up, one of the best books to learn how to set-up a start-up
Blockchain and its use cases!
Which approach will win the business lead or consumer lead? Historically the consumer always wins....unless these solutions are blocked...
Would love if we can pay finally UK taxis contactless....even cards are not accepted
One click payments...and continuos growth of partnerships with social tech players that increasingly own the customers....with banks...
14 million Chinese make up 78 percent of all overseas spend....out of 1 billion Chinese....
Interesting set of reading material to get up to speed on BitCoin and Crypto
Intersting list....most companies are already listed and seem mature companies....would love to see more innovation in the back and...
Cryptovalley in Switzerland, Coinffeine in Spain, Bitcoins in the Netherlands...innovation is globalizing...will multibillion exits as...
Consumer ready to switch banking 4 out of 5 in the UK, 1 out of 5 in the US...European Disruption accelerating!
Four-in-five UK consumers would trust a new challenger bank with their money, and over half think that a reliable IT infrastructure would...…
Nice use case example of Ripple
Bridging the digital gap....the ones that get it right tap into a multibillion opportunity!
International consolidation beginning.....we expect more consolidation in equity and lending platforms to create international champions!
Dwolla...I love this disruptive angle "The cash in your pocket is a UI. It’s a trigger to post to a balance sheet in a computer"
The importance for offline presence for digital success....4.5 Billion cards issues are 4.5 cards per chinese....anyway the 100 million...
IPO, Trade sale, it will set a mark and a direction...trade sale to a bank might make it even more exciting....as there are 1,000 times...
10 thoughts about the bank of the Future...big unanswered question is whether there is a bank in the future....
From payments one click a way to...no click away
20,000 UK citizens have a GBP 60m worth of Bitcoins in the UK....which equals 0,01% of the average daily FX trading volume in...
Interestingly Bitcoin start-ups still raise money in USD....in stead of Bitcoins....
The application of Internet of Things to Insurance and Banking....Auto tracking, House Insurance, inventory tracking, Trade tracking etc.
Signs the market will mature and we will see a shake out or consolidation of the wallet and consumer payments...
The battle for winning trust of the customer...the real assets financial institutions have or had!
NFC back in the mix in the UK....after a first push lead by Barclays in 2011
The end of static passwords...how will delegation work....if consumers use wallets, apple pays, etc. to pay...which than underlying use...
Smart new release....historically payments was about lowest cost per transaction vs the smartest way per transaction....time will tell...
Big win for Paytm....powered by the regulator....
The Alipay of Korea....? Will there eventually be a global leader or local by local...paypal, alipay, ideal, etc.
80% marketshare alipay all mobile tx!
Where will the people go that borrow today, but can no longer do post the gap? The waterbed effect...the water goes somewhere...friends...
The Dutch way of adopting Bitcoin....
What an interesting times....at the one hand people are finding solutions for handling security and growth in cash in gasstations...on...
With according to accenture GBP 1 Bn cummulative in investments in UK FinTech and already...yielding GBP 20 Bn in revenues not a bad...
Mastercard and identity wearables company Bionym say they will test the use of wearable devices to authenticate and execute “contactless”...…
Editor’s note: Alberto Jimenez is director of mobile payments at IBM. Jimenez was most recently Director of Global Mobile Solutions at...…
A trio of bitcoin developers won the grand prize of the first-ever Money 20/20 Hackathon in Las Vegas. More than 450 developers,...…
At the Money 2020 Hackathon in Las Vegas, there's more than just the $125,000 in prize money at stake. Winners here may also land a job...…
In the early 1970’s, the financial industry was transformed by a strange confluence of events. In 1973, The Chicago Board of Trade...…
The growth posted by Britain’s alternative finance sector is, by any standards, remarkable. A report published today by innovation group...…
LendIt Europe is Europe’s largest gathering of the online lending industry. The inaugural European event will bring together...…
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Third-party backdoor and a Windows vulnerability helped the Home Depot hackers plunder 56 million card transaction at the point-of-sale...…
UK innovation agency Nesta says that £1.74 billion will have been raised through alternative finance intermediaries – including...…
Virtual currency-based investments was accused of masterminding a $4.5 million Ponzi scheme in what U.S. prosecutors said was a...…
Committee chairman Andrew Tyrie is to question banks over allegations that they may be under-reporting instances of bank fraud because...…
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