If you were in London over the last couple of weeks, you wouldn’t have missed the activities of the extinction rebellion. While I don’t condone all their actions, they are making a valid point and it is being heard at the highest and the lowest levels. A week ago, I explained to my five year […]
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Are there common threads for or against the industry changing customers’ insurance viewpoints among these data points? $82.6 billion spent by insurers in 2018 on tech- U.S. market[i] $1.2 trillion- 2018 premiums, U.S. P&C market[ii] Record cash surplus for U.S. P&C firms- $802 billion as of 9/2019[iii] $3.1 billion in 2018 global InsurTech funding, $8 […]
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Jessica Ellerm is a thought leader specializing in Small Business and the Gig Economy and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zuper, a neowealth disruptor in Australia. With less than 4 years of operations under its belt, ambitious African fintech, SME lender Lidya, has announced it will commence its expansion into eastern Europe. The venture backed […]
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PHYGITAL E-commerce giant Amazon is a big player in many markets. From e-commerce, cloud, delivery, entertainment, payments, smart home devices, and physical stores. Retail giant Walmart, not included in the FANGs or the GAFAs, as it is a native of another tribe (physical retailers), can actually stand respectfully next to Amazon and other large non-financials […]
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Move fast and break Facebook. It will soon be conventional wisdom that Facebook Libra will fail and you only make money before the herd catches on. In this article, Daily Fintech Subscribers learn why Facebook Libra will likely fail and who/what will win if Facebook Libra fails and how to profit from that. Bernard Lunn […]
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Is the current state of blockchain development ready to attract a large number of users? For the technology to become mainstream, it needs to be applied in ways that people actually find useful and provide a much better experience than what is already available. Can social media be crypto’s killer app? Decentralized and decentralizing technologies are […]
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KPMG released their pulse report on global venture capital trends for Q3 2019 yesterday. There were some key highlights from the report worth discussing about. The most pleasantly surprising trend is the increase in VC investments in Europe. Despite Brexit and Germany moving towards a recession, venture and scale up investments in Europe hit a […]
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Patrick Kelahan is a CX, engineering & insurance professional, working with Insurers, Attorneys & Owners. He also serves the insurance and Fintech world as the ‘Insurance Elephant’. There has built during the past few years an InsurTech chase to ‘unicorn’ status not uniformly based on NPV, but on growth. Fellow Daily Fintech columnist, Ilias Louis […]
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Jessica Ellerm is a thought leader specializing in Small Business and the Gig Economy and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zuper, a neowealth disruptor in Australia. Back in 1968, Dr Edward Altman was responsible for a major innovation in the field of credit risk analysis for corporate businesses – the Altman Z-score. While it transformed […]
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Internal communication and client communication in Securities Services remains a nightmare. This sector is actually a great example of batch processing, lack of cross border interoperability and standardization. In July, BCG consulting and SWIFT published a white paper, looking at APIs in the Security Services industry. Adoption is low but awareness amongst asset managers grew […]
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