{"id":14869,"date":"2020-05-01T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=14869"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T14:21:56","slug":"fintech-s-strange-relationship-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-s-strange-relationship-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"FinTech\u2019s strange relationship with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world topsy-turvy, altering our day-to-day living patterns, overwhelming healthcare systems, closing businesses, increasing unemployment and stagnating economies. At the same time, we, as people, have a track record of working to make the best out of any situation. In the case of this pandemic, FinTech has proven to be a light in the midst of a lot of darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the pandemic set in, much of the world simply relocated to a relatively comfortable place: the digital world. This is important as FinTechs allow digital spaces to flourish, providing simple, easy and secure ways for people and businesses to make transactions, including ordering food, accessing entertainment options, paying bills and shopping. In fact, the pandemic might even serve as an impetus for opening up conversations about how businesses of the future will connect with and serve consumers. COVID-19 is definitely leaving its mark on the world, but it might just also help usher in new levels of digitization and forever change the way business is conducted.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-14869 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Cyber\u200b\u200bfraudster activity spikes amid COVID-19 crisis'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/cyber-fraudster-activity-spikes-amid-covid-19-crisis\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1ffd709a-d89d-4af7-964e-6ad743dc19fe-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14785\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14785'>\n\t\t\t\tCyber\u200b\u200bfraudster activity spikes amid COVID-19 crisis\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='FinTech\u2019s new realities in a COVID-19 world'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/fintech-s-new-realities-in-a-covid-19-world\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/5953af74-8fe0-4631-a3e9-ab507d6a65ad-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14863\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14863'>\n\t\t\t\tFinTech\u2019s new realities in a COVID-19 world\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Analytic report details the impact of COVID-19 on the FinTech industry'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/analytic-report-details-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-the-fintech-industry\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1e205891-b00f-483a-85b0-d415237b1ba2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14866\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14866'>\n\t\t\t\tAnalytic report details the impact of COVID-19 on the FinTech industry\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world topsy-turvy, altering our day-to-day living patterns, overwhelming healthcare systems, closing businesses, increasing unemployment and stagnating economies. At the same time, we, as people, have a track record of working to make the best out of any situation. In the case of this pandemic, FinTech has proven to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14869\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}