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Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Zooz
What is your mission statement? Our mission is to be the payment partner of choice for all merchants seeking to maximize their payments potential. We strive to reduce the burden of payments, open up borders with ease, and enable merchants to realize their business vision with data-driven insights. Zooz aims to

The Digital Future of Media & Journalism
Elina Makri is the co-founder of oikomedia.com, a networked digital platform designed to trace and connect journalists, fixers and media professionals around the globe. She’s also the Greek editor of dialoggers.eu (a Greek-German collaborative journalism project, and the founder of the Youth Investigative Journalism prize, which aims to train and

Meet ‘The FinTech 50’ – Behaviosec
What is your mission statement? Our mission is to create a world where consumers are part of the security solution, rather than the problem. Security should just work, without disrupting the user journey. Our behavioural biometric solution is a form of intelligent security – a multi-layered, pragmatic approach to user authentication and verification
The Total Volume of FinTech Investments in 2014? $6.8B
According to the annual research of international fintech venture capital firm Life.SREDA, fintech startups worldwide raised a total of $6.8B in 2014. This is three times more than in 2013, when the total investment amount in fintech was $2.2B. In 2014, we witnessed the first IPOs of fintech companies, setting

Meet ‘The Fintech 50’ – Mambu
What is Mambu’s mission statement? Mambu believes that all people and businesses should have ubiquitous access to appropriate financial services to help them pursue economic opportunities around the world. Our job is to provide the next generation of financial innovators the ability to easily design, deploy and service essential loan and deposit products.

Big Data Takes Over the Gaming Industry
Back in 2013, the Staples Center sold out in under an hour, setting what must be some unofficial record for ticket sales. However, people weren’t buying tickets to see the Lakers or the Kings play. The center was actually hosting the League of Legends Championship. For those of you who

Aerospike’s New CEO John Dillon on the 2015 Roadmap for Database Tech: Less Hype, Better Technology
2015 is certainly an exciting time for NoSQL database vendors Aerospike. 2014 saw them open source their technology, post groundbreaking benchmarks and add a whole raft of updates to their platform. Today, they’ve announced that Silicon Valley veteran John Dillon will be stepping into the breach as their new CEO.
UK Government Calls for Evidence to Launch Banking API Standard
At the Autumn Statement 2014 the UK government published the report ‘Data Sharing and Open Data for Banks’ written by the Open Data Institute and consultancy firm Fingleton Associates. The government committed to launch a call for evidence on how best to deliver an open standard for application programming interfaces
Banca d'Italia Launches T2S Program – Harmonises Cross Border Banking
Italian banks have launched the Target-to-Securities project, T2S is a technical platform that will be offered to central securities depositories (CSDs) for the settlement in central bank money of both domestic and cross-border securities transactions. The development and future management of the platform has been entrusted to the central banks
Peer-to-Peer Industry Hits £1.2 Billion in UK in 2014
Peer-2-Peer released new figures today indicating that the P2P industry is responsible for more than £2.1 billion in loans during 2014, doubling in size since 2013. The number of lenders has increased by one third and borrowers have also increased by 90% according to the statement by Peer-to-Peer Finance Association