I wrote this comparison between Amazon and PayPal in 2014, but funnily enough, it might still be almost accurate (but treat this with a huge degree of irony, please 🙂 ) Meeting style Too many aggressively opinionated people To many politely indecisive people Attitude to PowerPoint Read more…
I have recently decided to create and maintain an e-mail list for my customers, potential customers and professional connections, and it was actually a big and non-conventional decision. Behind the scenes, I (like you, probably) receive tons of emails from people I meet at conferences, meetups or virtually, and some Read more…
FREE Templates and Downloads HERE=>: DIGITAL KYC – YOUR FREE CHECKLIST FREE SWOT ANALYSIS TEMPLATE FOR FINTECH How to trust a Startup? Having worked with bitFlyer, TenX, BitPesa, PayPal, and Amazon, I get coffee invitations and lunch and drinks invitations all the time: startup founders would like to pick up Read more…
AI first” principle. In the recent past, the key principle of all Fintech products was “Mobile First”. All products were designed to be user-friendly on mobile devices. By contrast, all new products and even backend solutions now are designed to be able to benefit from Artificial Intelligence inputs. If it’s not Read more…
Over the last months I have interviewed many compliance experts who wanted (or at least considered) making a career change, living their corporate jobs and moving into a FinTech startup. One of the common reasons was “my job no longer makes me happy” – and it was not about money. Read more…
Courtesy of Pavel Afanasiev Compliance thrives when regulatory frameworks solidify. The overwhelming majority of speakers on subjects with links to compliance (mostly in fintech, mobile payments and banking roundtables) have nodded to the idea that even if there are substantial differences in regulation of financial institutions and payment services across Read more…
Courtesy of Pavel Afanasiev Entirely aside from the fact that Dublin is a phenomenal city that unifies greenery, industrialism and (post-?) modernity in a successful marriage, it was a great place to host this year’s MoneyConf! On top of being the obvious entry gate into Europe for foreign tech firms Read more…
Disclaimer (i wrote this post in summer 2017, and it’s surprising that it is still very much valid 🙂 ) After a few recent conference speeches and meetup appearances, it became clear to me that ICO hype continues; and continues to be surrounded by equally impressive volume of city-legends and Read more…
Tokens are used by their issuers to govern and control their business models and help users interact with the platform. However, different token rights, roles or features have different regulatory implications. What are they? Here is a (very simplified) summary of token functions Token Roles and Rights Categorization Business Implications Read more…
The majority of ICOs that happened earlier in 2018 and in 2017 did not use any KYC tools, and had no idea who their participants were (here we don’t count ICO pre-sales and private sales, where ICO organizers obviously had personal contacts with early contributors and knew them well). This Read more…
