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Russian style: fintech vs bigtech

As a person who is from a Central Asian country which is in close relation with Russia I have always used some kind of Russian made IT product. This applies to fintech products too, for example, among others Yandex.Money is one of the finance apps I use in my everyday life. Until recently Yandex and Sberbank another Russian company were closely coo...

12 November 2020 /payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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The future of fintech: change or die

In 2010–2012, something began to change in people’s behavior. The changes happened so slowly and naturally that most of us did not even pay attention to them. 10 years ago, the iPhone 4 was already on sale we used the phone as a tool that performs certain functions: make calls, check the map or listen to songs. Now smartphones have become our compa...

06 November 2020 /payments /startups Fintech

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What is a social bank? Do we need one?

In his book “Digital Bank: Strategies to launch or become a digital bank” Chris Skinner discusses the role of bank branches. Chris claims the number of bank branches is decreasing from year to year as they are unnecessary in the current digitally connected world. I agree with the idea, think about the last time you visited the physical branch of th...

05 November 2020 /retail /inclusion Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

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It’s neither win nor lose but integration

Fintechs, perhaps surprisingly, don’t see a future where they have won and incumbent players have lost. J.P. Morgan says “challenger banks expense bases are every very well developed and their revenue channels or their ideas for how to monetize their customers are very, very underdeveloped.” “By far the most popular [business strategy] has been ‘we...

04 November 2020 /payments /retail Fintech

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