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  • The rise of embedded finance

    Fintech

    Dealroom Talks: the rise of embedded finance

    10 March, 2022

    This week we hosted a virtual forum on the rise of embedded finance. With the help of industry experts, startup founders and our own Intelligence Unit, we took a deep dive into the opportunities, threats, and impact of embedded finance on the financial services landscape. How has embedded financing become so popular? The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the transition to online operations for many…

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    Dealroom Talks: the rise of embedded finance

    • Fintech, Food, Health, Impact, Central & Eastern Europe

      The invasion of Ukraine and the corporate fallout

      7 March, 2022

      Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered an international and humanitarian crisis. While governments and civilians…

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      The invasion of Ukraine and the corporate fallout

    • Fintech

      Embedded lending: business financing reinvented

      23 February, 2022

      Lending is not easy. It requires a sophisticated tech stack, complex processes, lending capital and…

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      Embedded lending: business financing reinvented

  • Fintech

    DeFi and NFTs are coming to Bitcoin

    9 February, 2022

    DeFi and NFTs are coming to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the leading decentralized digital currency and store of value and currently accounts for almost 40% of all the crypto…

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    DeFi and NFTs are coming to Bitcoin

  • Fintech, Insurtech

    Embedded insurance ready to take off

    26 January, 2022

    In the coming weeks, we will discuss many sides of the embedded finance revolution. Today we start from one of the hottest topics: embedded insurance.

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    Embedded insurance ready to take off

  • Fintech

    Fintech investment smashed all records in 2021

    13 January, 2022

    2021 has been the year of fintech investment. Global fintech startups have smashed all previous records in 2021. We dig it all out in our Fintech 2021 Report. Fintech startups…

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    Fintech investment smashed all records in 2021
  • Blockchain trilemma

    Fintech

    Rollup rollup: scaling blockchain to one billion users

    8 December, 2021

    Crypto and especially Decentralized finance (DeFi) promised to democratize finance, the same way the internet made content accessible to everyone. The first commercial Bitcoin transaction back in 2010 was to buy two Papa John’s pizzas (as an Italian I have to admit, that hurt), with the moment heralded as the first step towards widespread everyday crypto payments. More than a decade on that’s still nowhere in sight.

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    Rollup rollup: scaling blockchain to one billion users

  • Fintech

    Fintech’s hottest market: Latin America

    1 December, 2021

    Latin America is the hottest fintech market in the world, here is why. LatAm’s demographics and its lack of established advanced financial services are a huge opportunity. According to the…

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    Fintech’s hottest market: Latin America

  • Education, Fintech

    Fintech for kids – Generation Alpha and beyond

    24 November, 2021

    Despite all the progress in financial access, financial education for kids and teens is still lagging behind. The democratization of financial services is rapidly changing the…

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    Fintech for kids – Generation Alpha and beyond

  • Fintech

    Reinventing business capital: revenue-based financing

    17 November, 2021

    Venture capital funding has grown massively in recent years. Over $500B was invested in startups globally in 2022, more than 10x the $47B in 2010.

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    Reinventing business capital: revenue-based financing

  • Deep Tech, Fintech

    Crypto gaming and Metaverse divides the industry

    10 November, 2021

    Google searches on the term “metaverse” have increased 50x in the last month. Microsoft have announced their metaverse vision for…

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    Crypto gaming and Metaverse divides the industry

  • Fintech

    Fighting financial crime with tech

    3 November, 2021

    Around $1–2 trillion is laundered every year globally, around 2–5% of the global GDP. And only 1–3% of laundered funds are identified and possibly stopped. With…

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    Fighting financial crime with tech

  • Fintech

    Where are the Western SuperApps?

    27 October, 2021

    When we think of SuperApps we tend to look East. China with WeChat and Ant’s Alipay, Southeast Asia’s burgeoning Goto Group (merger of Gojek and Tokopedia), which just cashed in…

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    Where are the Western SuperApps?