Category: Career

Got Revenue? Alternative Financing Tools Look To Help SaaS Founders Avoid Dilution

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While large venture funding rounds often grab the headlines, more tools continue to spring up to offer founders alternatives to what can be costly dilutive equity rounds. While venture debt, shred earning agreements (SEALs), simple agreement for future equity (SAFEs), and revenue-based financing all have proliferated in popularity to some degree or another, some companies […]

An Insider’s Guide to Nailing Your LinkedIn Profile

For more in-depth insights, discussions and expert opinions on all things Fintech, check out the latest issue of PCN Magazine. LinkedIn is, without a doubt, the most effective platform for professional branding. For recruiters, the platform enables head-hunting the very best talent. For candidates, it allows you to market your skills and interests to a professional […]

Culture Shift Report Finds Trust Is the Key Factor for a Happy Workforce in Finance

While some financial sector bosses have welcomed remote working with open arms, others have struggled to trust their employees to work autonomously with some even ramping up on surveillance to track exactly what their workforce is doing. This may, however, be problematic for organisations looking to attract and retain talent as, according to a recent […]

Jobs in fintech bounce back after brief lockdown lull

Fintechs and payments companies need to make staff recruitment a priority as talent pool shrinks Demand for tech professionals in the fintech and digital payments sector bounced back strongly after a short pause during the initial Covid-19 lockdowns. Research by recruitment consultancy Headcount found that the pandemic had fuelled digitisation across Europe, increasing the need […]

Female FinTech Founders’ Funding Behind Male Counterparts

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Female FinTech entrepreneurs are getting left out of funding even as record venture capital money is being pumped into startups. Just 3.8 percent of FinTech startups with female founders received funding January through October, according to Crunchbase, per a Bloomberg report on Wednesday (Nov. 25). Companies that did get funding received only 0.9 percent of total monies […]

Answered: 5 questions about forging a career in fintech

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Learn how to kick-start your career in fintech and what you can expect of different roles in this field. Wondering what it takes to carve out a career in fintech? It’s an industry going from strength to strength with plenty of different opportunities. You can opt to work for a specialised firm, such as Revolut […]

8 Berlin Fintechs to look out for in 2021

Berlin’s young, enthusiastic and creative energy and business mindset is nearly unmatched in mainland Europe. Comparisons to the US’ Silicon Valley are becoming increasingly justified: In fact, with more than 2.500 active startups, Berlin is attracting more young minds than any other city in the EU. Berlin’s distinct lack of major banking presences like in […]

Passive yet active: Making your LinkedIn profile work for you

Sure, we’ve all heard it before—you need to make sure your LinkedIn profile is up to date and professional. But, there’s more to making your LinkedIn profile work for you than that. You don’t have to be actively looking for a job to make sure your LinkedIn profile is helping establish you as a professional […]

We’re excited to introduce you to the new look of our brand and website

When Payments and Cards Network started on the back of our CEO Jordan’s surfing days in Cadiz, the business was young and opportunistic. The company began life as a Linkedin group in 2007 (was a big thing back then), then refined in 2012. Soon after our COO Rogier joined and the journey of Payments & […]