Why Fintech Industry Needs To Leverage Blockchain – 6 Uses Cases of Blockchain
Blockchain is considered to be a revolutionary technology known for a decentralized database. Ever since it was introduced as the backing power behind the bitcoin cryptocurrency, it continued to be popular, and over a...
Revolution or Regulations? Fintech’s Future After the Avant and Marlette Settlements
Do the Avant and Marlette settlements make consumers safer or was it simply a win on paper for Colorado’s attorney general? Fintech attorney and Tech on Reg podcast host Dara Tarkowski seeks answers from...
Capital Markets Governance 101
Front, middle, back? Are we in some sort of public transportation? Since Lehman’s failure more than 10 years have lapsed, during which all compartments of capital markets operations have been reshaped by regulators. But what...
Analyzing high interest rates on borrows in DeFi protocol
Looking into blockchain data to know how a DeFi protocol can have more than 100% of interest for borrow assets We have recently seen that the interest rate to borrow a loan in BAT in...
Is It Now the Time to Replace the Banks with DeFi?
DeFi a.k.a. decentralized finance is here to over throne traditional banks, yet the billions of dollars worth institutions are still blind to the new age of finance. What are the services that come to your...
Why Engaging With Right Crypto Exchange Matters
Cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoins, have shown tremendous growth so far when compared to gold and the U.S.Dollar. In June 2020, the price of bitcoin has increased by 27.8% year-on-year, while gold and the U.S.dollar have...
Spotting The Wolf From The Sheep
If you have been in any industry long enough, one thing becomes clear. There are three main types of people in this world, the ones who are smart and resilient, the ones who are...
The Rise of Neobanks in India
an overview of the market with the different neo-banking fintech players in India Fintech startups in India raised a whopping $3.7 billion in 2019 alone, and for good reason. India has the highest adoption rate...
Global Trends in Fintech Technology
Countries may have locked up their borders to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, but local and international trade must go on. Innovations such as cloud-based technology, AI, and fintech have stepped in to handle the...
The Rise of European Fintech Startups
Startups are now the future, and it's in the fintech industry where this growth is most evident. While places like Silicon Valley and Palo Alto come to mind for all things tech, Europe has...
Digital Currency – What does it take to launch a CBDC?
China’s digital yuan has been in the WORKS SINCE 2014. The launch date, however, still remains unknown The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, has announced the launch of a YEAR-LONG PILOT PROJECT of its proposed e-krona. A digital dollar has...
The Blockchain Technology Act comes into force in Illinois
State of Illinois, in the USA, legalize smart contract and blockchain technologies An industry study announces 2020 as the breakthrough year of the blockchain technology and of the smart contracts. The phenomenon, sometimes misunderstood, seems...
The Future of Banks and Fintech Startups
The concept of banks hasn’t changed much, but as technology evolves, old concepts get updated. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the state of the finance industry right now. Banks won’t be going...
Fintech Felt Like Funtech but Now Libra is On Its Way
Libra is on its way. The battlefields are marked. The trenches are built. The die is cast. The financial crisis of ten years ago has profoundly shaped the social-cultural climate of the world. Especially in the...
Bitcoin’s surge & Facebook’s Libra launch has put the Financial Regulators on High Alert
Financial Regulators have not been really forthcoming ever since the announcement by the social media giant to launch its own digital currency dubbed Libra. While most of the people in the Cryptoverse have pointed...
Crypto Diaries: Facebook reveals the White paper for its stable coin Libra
The announcement by the social media giant Facebook to launch its own native digital token dubbed as 'Libra' as per the white paper released, is perhaps the biggest announcement Cryptoverse has seen in its...
Will the Big Banks be able to hold up against the Fintech challenge?
The legacy financial services are trying desperately to gain a competitive edge over the innovative Fintechs. Despite having all the traditional advantages - network infrastructure, solid balance sheets, regulatory approvals, physical footprint & established...
More than 150 Apps Powering the Gig Economy
The Future of Work is undergoing a fundamental change. Enabled & empowered by technology & embraced by Generation Z - a demographic who were born between 1995–2009 & who will form the biggest chunk...
An Unwelcome & Unavoidable Technological Contest
Innovation & Technological superiority have become the central themes of International influence and there is no better depiction of this than in the current tariff war between U.S & China which has converted into...
Crypto Diaries: Reviewing Major blockchain developments & Upgrades
Crypto Markets have gone into corrective mode ever since Bitcoin hit the high of $9K on May 30th. The Short term bias has turned bearish after showing signs of exhaustion with a two-month bull...