Samee Zafar Speaking To CEE Fintech In Budapest
Watch Samee Zafar, Director, speaking to CEE Fintech in Budapest. CEE-Fintech matches fintech startups with financial institutions, technological integrators and investors interested in the field. The...
View ArticleFintech Connect Live
In early December EDC once again joined the debate at the Fintech Connect Live event in London. This is an event that has grown considerably since last year and it was interesting to see what those...
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Interview with CEO of PPRO – Simon Black
EDC’s Samee Zafar met with Simon Black, CEO of PPRO, to discuss digital payments. PPRO is at the core of online payments a leader in cross-border e-payments and “one of the fastest growing FinTech...
View ArticleEDC Interface – May
Topics covered in this month’s Interface are: UK government prepares PSD2 legislation despite Brexit, API management solutions for PSD2 compliance & beyond, milestone in US financial data...
View ArticleScreen Scraping Ban Reversal – EDC Interface June Special
This month’s Interface is dedicated to the status of ‘screen scraping’ under PSD2. Is the EBA about to make a u-turn on the ban it included in the final draft RTS? It could be a hugely significant...
View ArticleUpdate On UK Implementation of PSD2: Surcharging And Guidance On 3rd Party...
The UK government has published details on how it plans to transpose the 2nd Payment Services Directive into UK law. We have summarised the key points which feature two particular important topics to...
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Interview With Rob Frohwein, CEO of Kabbage
EDC’s Kim Gerhardt met with Rob Frohwein, CEO and Co-Founder of Kabbage. Kabbage is a data and technology platform that enables real-time lending. Launched in 2008, Kabbage has since expanded to serve...
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Status Of EBAs 11 PSD2 Work-Streams
PSD2 takes effect in Jan 2018 – in less than 4 months time and the EBA still has a lot of work to complete. Whilst the controversy around the RTS on Strong Customer Authentication & Secure...
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Interview With Osama Bedier, CEO of Poynt
EDC’s Samee Zafar met with Osama Bedier, CEO and Co-Founder of Poynt. Poynt’s mission is to fix a broken commerce infrastructure by bringing developers, distributors and merchants together on an open...
View ArticleNew Banking: Being Digital, Being Different
Years ago, at a banking conference in New Orleans, I attended a presentation by Michael Porter, the legendary Harvard Business School professor of strategy. Porter was presenting his theory of...
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Interview With Nick Ogden, CEO of ClearBank
EDC’s Samee Zafar met with Nick Ogden, CEO of ClearBank. ClearBank is the UK’s first clearing bank in more than 250 years bringing open competition and transparency to the UK market. Their...
View ArticleHello Tina! Goodbye M!
Young people, it is often said, are more tech friendly than older people. Take Tina – a very popular chatbot on the messaging platform called Telegram – who serves as a digital friend, sometimes...
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Africa Payments Outlook: Are local players taking control?
On February 6-7, Egypt hosted the Seamless North Africa Fintech conference, which gathered key regional players to tackle three topics: Fintech, e-payments, and e-commerce. As more and more of such...
View ArticleResearch Report: ‘Fraud In Travel Payments’
We recently conducted research, commissioned by eNett, a global provider of dedicated B2B travel payment solutions, revealing the cost of fraud to travel companies. Our research estimated that the...
View ArticleInitial Coin Offerings (ICO)
Venture firms like to back innovative start-ups that have the potential to disrupt industries. Now an innovation is set to disrupt theirs. Rather than raise funding through the traditional venture...
View ArticleDigital challenger banks still trust in plastic
Rewind to 1989, the US and Russia were in talks to end the Cold War, the first version of Microsoft Office that bundled both the Word and Excel applications was released, the UK’s Prime Minister was...
View ArticleAPR 2018: 12th Edition of the Annual Advanced Payments Report
Edgar, Dunn & Company has released the 12th edition of its Annual Advanced Payments Report (APR 2018). Consistent with previous editions, this report represents the findings of the latest...
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Deal of the Month – Dunedin has invested in the £44 million funding of Global...
Dunedin has invested in the £44 million funding of Global Processing Services (“GPS”), the global payments processor and tech powerhouse behind the most exciting digital banks, challenger banks,...
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Conversation With Ludwig Schulze, CEO of Waterman Ventures
Ludwig Schulze, CEO of Waterman Ventures, a venture capital provider, spoke to EDC’s Samee Zafar. As a venture capitalist, what things you want to see in a pitch before you consider an investment?...
View ArticleTo 2020 and beyond: Edgar, Dunn & Company’s 2019 Fintech Report
It’s finally here – the end of the future. The year that inspired plans for the future of just about everything – 2020 has arrived. Given the ambitions of countless “Vision 2020” roadmaps, it is...
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