Skip to content
AliPay Leads The Way In COVID-19 FinTech – And It’s A Lesson For Other Platforms
Even before the coronavirus pandemic struck this year, the mobile payments market was on course to experience unprecedented growth. While the pandemic has dealt a serious blow to the global economy, it has given the digital payments market a boost as demand from consumers and businesses for a contact-free shopping experience has surged. Figures from Payvision suggest […]
Swedish challenger Rocker pilots biometric card
Swedish digital banking challenger Rocker is set to pilot the country’s first contactless fingerprint biometric debit card.The firm is working with augmented identification vendor Idemia to roll out the card early next year, enabling users to ditch their PINs for payments. Jonas Hultin, chief product officer, Rocker, says: “As a bank challenger, we are constantly […]
Meet Frederic – Digital Source Internal Interviews
Bringing you our last internal interview for 2020, we sat down with Frederic Lamoureux – our Tech Recruitment Consultant here at Digital Source. Dive into the interview below, as he shares with us how his career in recruitment began, his favourite travel destination and the show he is currently binge-watching. Where are you from? I […]
Fintech, regtech and the role of compliance 2021
The year 2020 has been a year of digital transformation and acceleration to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. By necessity and by design firms have implemented the roll-out of technology, often at speed, to enable business activities to continue as countries went into lockdown. The applications that are covered by the term fintech […]
Seeking balance between fintech innovation and regulation in China
The rapid development of fintech in China has prompted regulatory authorities to consider the potential risks it poses on the overall financial system. Ant Group’s initial public offering (IPO), set to become the largest in history, was suspended by regulators last minute. According to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, ‘major issues regarding changes in the fintech regulatory environment might […]
Fintech and the Software Testing Challenge
Software testing is regularly subject to trade-offs – that is, attempting to cover as much of a codebase as is possible given time and resource constraints. Sometimes known bugs slip through to release and go unfixed because they are deemed low-risk. Within fintech, even small bugs can have serious repercussions for a development team… and […]
Banks and Fintech Firms Must Work Cooperatively to Address Critical Issues like Cybersecurity, UBS CEO Recommends
Ralph Hamers, CEO at UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG), a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company based in Switzerland with around $1 trillion in assets, has noted that innovation and collaboration haven’t really been the norm for many traditional financial institutions. Hamers, whose comments came during the Singapore Fintech Festival, stated that the need to […]
Synctera Brings ‘FinTech As A Service’ To Community Banks
Bet your last application programming interface (API) that the strong suits for FinTechs as the year heads to a close are innovation and user experience. On the other side of the table sit the traditional community banks and the smart bet there is on risk and regulatory compliance and capital. But what if there was […]
The Year in Review for Fintech
With 2020 in the rearview mirror, financial institutions of the world will be in a much more resilient position. The world has hit the online accelerator in 2020. Indeed, earlier this year Microsoft estimated that two years worth of digital transformation was compressed into just two months. Nowhere is this more acute than in the financial sector. […]
Amsterdam among top 20 global Fintech ecosystems; offers strong reasons for startups to invest in: Startup Genome report
The startup ecosystem keeps frequently changing with multiple ecosystems spread across multiple regions, which foster new and upcoming startups. To understand such ecosystems better, Startup Genome’s Global Ecosystem report 2020 is now available. The current report takes a deeper look at Fintech space to better understand the ever-changing landscape. It also lists the top Fintech […]