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Willem Lambrechts

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Running a technology brokerage with strong focus on financial services and financial markets.

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Willem Lambrechts

The regulatory sword of Damocles

The Critical Importance of Archiving Digital Contracts and Signatures in the Context of European eIDAS, NIS2, and DORA Regulations As digital transformation accelerates, the shift from paper to digital contracts and signatures has become ubiquitous. However, this shift brings with it significant regulatory obligations, especially within the Europea...

12 July 2024 RegTech

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The pre-seed funding gap.

56 % drop in fintech investments...interesting number... however, the headline doesn't tell it all... The total amount invested in fintechs fell 56 %, ok. However , the total number of investments in fintech dropped only by 18 %. If it were for rising interests exclusively, the number of investments would have gone down proportionally... Where the...

16 February 2023 Fintech innovation and startups

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ESG and International Sales : how to marry them?

Covid-19, or rather the measures taken to try and prevent the virus from spreading, had a major impact on the global society. This is not likely to become the hot news of the day... Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) and the growing number of measures taken to enforce the ESG focus in enterprise boardrooms and investment committees is...

15 April 2022 Sustainable compliance

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Blockchain and European payments: banks in the defensive mode

Interesting article, Carlo, but I think you mix up 2 different things : an operational issue on one hand and a technology that could be envisaged to help it solve at the other. It looks like you are an advocate of blockchain technology and there is nothing wrong with that. However blockchain is just one possible way to address the challenge and possibly not the best or most efficient one, but that is a different debate...Thanks for shedding your light on the matter!

09 Apr 2020 13:54 Read comment

FinTech Myth busting - Selling Technology to Banks

This is a truly revealing and relevant article about propably the most neglected but undoubtedly the most critical activity related to building a solid financial technology business. An absolute prerequisite for possible success is a solid sales strategy and a team of industry experts that have built a trusted relationship with the targeted financial institutions. I invite every starting and scaling fintech to find those experts. In the exceptional case that the expert is found, another issue pops up : the absence of a sensible sales budget.

Thank you, Roger, for putting the finger on a universal problem! 

Willem

 

02 Dec 2019 13:00 Read comment

FINTECH - REGTECH - HOW ABOUT SALES?

Hi Scott, thanks for your comment! Much appreciated! We may possibly be able to help you out. Kind invitation to visit www.drebbel.eu.

I look forward to talking to you!

 

14 Aug 2019 16:53 Read comment

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