First of all, let’s agree that the term “stablecoin” has been applied extremely loosely and liberally, in a truly decentralized fashion 😉 and I have personally seen it referring to single-currency or multi-currency pegged digital assets, to tokenized gold and diamonds products, to hybrid digital products with embedded algorithmic price Read more…
Let’s talk about financial services and linked accounts today. What are linked accounts? – Those are accounts that belong to your clients who are, for example, entities with common ownership or persons from the same family or otherwise clients that are connected or coordinate their activities when it comes to Read more…
Today’s episode is a lesson in Trade Finance, which is an emerging trend in the FinTech space. Trade Financing is a financial intermediary that sits between imports and exports and facilitates international trade. Tune in today to hear about how Fintechs are disrupting Trade Financing! If you found value in Read more…
In the startup world, it happens every so often that people don’t pay you or don’t deliver what you expect them to deliver, or otherwise don’t do what they promised. Sometimes people ask me, what options they have. Here are a few creative strategies I see working quite well in Read more…
Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services are a growing trend, with year-on-year growth in the sector over the next few years expected to be 15-20%! Despite the value that it provides to many retailers and their customers, the BNPL model also has a number of problems. In today’s episode, I’m going to explain Read more…
This episode is for anyone who is wondering whether they should be offering a crypto-denominated checkout option on their online store. In today’s episode, I’m going to run through the do’s and don’ts when it comes to crypto payments, and after listening to this episode, you should know whether or Read more…
This is a short and sweet episode about the reasons that the vast majority of retail public investors want to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and the tokens that you should and shouldn’t consider offering to your customers if you are a fiat-focused fintech looking to branch out into the crypto Read more…
FinTech companies rarely can survive without banks, processors, and other financial partners. The more the merrier. Today, I’d like to share with you my view on having too many partners and how do you know when it’s too many. One notorious example of an epic failure with too many too-big-to-fail Read more…
Today marks one year of me bringing you Compliance That Makes Sense! In today’s episode, I share what inspired me to begin this podcast, and what has motivated me to keep going. You’ll learn more about my background, and why I am so passionate about FinTech compliance. Thank you for Read more…
Today’s article is inspired by my conversation with a taxi driver about money and Putin. I came to Salzburg for the Opera Festival and a taxi driver asked me (mixing Russian and German with some heavy Slavic accent) if I was pro or against Putin. I said “obviously against” and Read more…