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The National Bank of Kazakhstan introduced several changes last year that have affected online lending. Specifically, the Bank limited the annual effective rate to 100% and also reduced the total …

The lack of regulations governing many areas of FinTech in Russia is providing many great opportunities for FinTech startups to test innovative new solutions that might be difficult to test …

FinTech startups continually create new, innovative solutions to modern financial issues, taking advantage of technology advances to make lives easier and business processes better. However, they are often at odds …

Despite concerns over the impact of Brexit, many startups are not willing to give up on London and its rich business networks and strong financial flows. At the same time, …

CB Insights recently compiled data on 101 startups that ultimately failed. They found a number of different reasons for failure and ranked the top 20 reasons in this illuminating infographic …

Have you thought about leaving your current position to start a FinTech company? While the idea might not be a bad one, just remember that FinTech startups have a failure …

Have you thought about leaving your current position to start a FinTech company? While the idea might not be a bad one, just remember that FinTech startups have a failure …

The road to success is often filled with rocks that startups must stumble through and overcome. Some of these rocks, however, can be avoided thanks to the mistakes of previous …

Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford at 19 to start a company called Theranos, with the ultimate goal of driving down healthcare costs and making the industry consumer-driven. For a …

The global economy can sometimes be hard to understand due to the sheer size of it and the complexities that drive it. Take a look at these eight infographics that …

FinTech has taken center stage in the financial world. In 2019, it is expected to become even more prominent in a number of ways: RegTech – compliance, complexity, cost and …

The banking sector is becoming both more strategically focused and technologically advanced in order to respond to consumer expectations and try to defend their market shares. As such, the importance …

Payments are a trending topic in the FinTech world. Here are 18 predictions for what’s in store for payments in 2019: APIs– every board room is discussing APIs, but the …

2018 was a strong year for FinTechs, with the market cap of the Matrix FinTech Index growing 50 percentage points and far outpacing incumbent financial service giants and the S&P …

Deploying the right FinTech marketing strategy is a big challenge in an incredibly saturated market. Here are nine tricks to position FinTech marketing efforts for success: Go mobile with FinTech …

The banking industry is at the dawn of a great new era of FinTech partnerships that is expected to change banking as we know it. Despite this, many financial institutions …

China has embraced FinTech solutions as ways to make their lives easier, with one-stop shop apps allowing nearly half a billion people to access a dizzying array of financial services. …

A lot happened in 2018 – everything from Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and the net neutrality debate to cryptocurrency’s volatility and Brexit negotiations. Many of these events will impact FinTech …

The full-scale implications of Brexit are unclear for a number of industries, including the FinTech industry. Dr. Joanna Perkins of the Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) outlined six key areas …

Financial institution-FinTech funding trends have revealed that European financial institutions are the most active, both in terms of volume (53%) and value (47%), in working with and providing funding to …