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APIs Are The Secret Sauce Of Fintech

If revenue from fintech companies really is going to more than triple in the next decade, as some have predicted, it’s not going to happen without APIs.  In the last decade, APIs have gone from one tool at a company’s disposal to arguably the tool that allows companies to achieve scale in
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Tokenized securities on blockchain are here. And they’ve been around for a while.

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Remember tokenized securities or securitization with tokens on blockchain? With the entire year in crypto defined by a maelstrom of projects embarking on decentralized finance (DeFi) aspects to their products, it can be easy to forget that previous advancements in blockchain-based technologies have continued to make great headway in

Why it’s natural for fintech innovations to slow down

Currently, fintech is one of the most emerging industries all over the world. More and more companies are launched every day using technologies to provide financial services to people involved in the business sector. In fact, fintech is all around us nowadays as everything we do online may be

4 U.S. based FinTech companies transforming small business lending

Small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy and remain essential to the country’s economic growth and employment. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), 99.7% of all U.S. private-sector employers are small businesses, and nearly 7 out of 10 American jobs are at a small business. With

Bunq brings Google Pay to the Netherlands and Portugal

The Dutch neobank, founded in 2012, has become the first provider to offer Google Pay support in its home country, as well as in Portugal. Google Pay is a safe and easy way to pay contactless with your NFC-equipped Android phone in physical retail locations or online. It creates encrypted virtual cards

Lanistar’s New Card Supports Personalized Security, A First In Fintech

Bottom Line: Lanistar’s new payment card provides an innovative solution to the paradox holding FinTech back from growing faster, which are the conflicting needs of providing tighter transaction security while giving customers more freedom to customize services. Fintech startups bring much-needed innovation to the Financial Services industry by concentrating on

Railsbank raises $37m

Banking-as-a-Service platform Railsbank has raised $37 million in a funding round led by MiddleGame Ventures and Ventura Capital. Anthos Capital, Global Brains, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Moneta VC, Mitsui Fudosan and Firestartr joined the round, the proceeds of which will be used to fuel London-based Railsbank’s geographic and product expansion.

British AI fintech startup ilumoni raises €380K to make it easy for people to borrow well

ilumoni, the British fintech startup helping people to borrow better, save on unnecessary interest and time in paying off debts has raised more than €380K pre-seed investment backed by Move Ventures (formed by the founders of Market Gravity, acquired by Deloitte in 2017), and angel investors including Simon Moran, former

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APIs Are The Secret Sauce Of Fintech

If revenue from fintech companies really is going to more than triple in the next decade, as some have predicted, it’s not going to happen without APIs.  In the last decade, APIs have gone from one tool at a company’s disposal to arguably the tool that allows companies to achieve scale in a cost-effective way— particularly within fintech.  If fintech is akin to a shiny new house on the block, then APIs might just be the pipes and wires that make the house livable.  What Are APIs? APIs, which stands for Application Programming Interface, are essentially the pipes that connect servers, applications,

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