Report of the FT Sharing Economy European Summit, 17 March 2015, LondonIn recent years, the sharing economy has developed enormously due to Internet technology. Mobile phone applications, rating systems and digital payments enable people to connect instantly with the demand and supply of goods and...
American Facebook users will soon be able to send payments through the Facebook Messenger app. The app will feature a $ sign above the keyboard which will lead you to a payments interface. By entering the amount you want to send in the text message...
The first quarter of the year saw a couple of crowdfunding records broken in the US and the UK. US has by far the largest crowdfunding campaigns. UK is the leader of the pack in Europe. JustPark announced yesterday that it has closed its highly successful equity crowdfunding...
There seems to be a battle going on between Apple, Google and Samsung for the market of mobile payments. But who are the real winners of this battle? One of the tech giants? Or the credit card companies?The rise of mobile payments dominates the news in...
There are many moving parts in the fintech space, and the most often lagging behind is regulation. But the importance of legislation, and thus compliance, need not to be underestimated. Well known fintech innovations, like crowdfunding and bitcoin, are known to struggle with the regulators...
Thursday the 12th of March was the first time a large meeting about Big Data was held in the Netherlands. About time in our opinion, because Big Data is a subject lots of people are interested in, as it affects many areas of interest for...
This week Holland FinTech attended the inaugural Innovate Finance Global Summit 2015. The summit took place in the solemn Guildhall, the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London and its Corporation. The Corporation is probably the world's oldest continuously elected local government body....
Biometrics, ultrasonic scanning, platforms that integrate mobile payments in apps and the battle between Android Pay (Google), Samsung Pay and Apple Pay for world reign. During the 7th Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, we got a first taste of everything related to mobile innovations....
Symbid, a Dutch FinTech start-up founded in 2011, announced yesterday to have launched their new online platform called ‘the Funding Network’. During an official press conference in Amsterdam - Holland FinTech was one of the few selected to attend - the founders unveiled a quite...
Interview with Gijs op de Weegh, COO PayvisionPayvision started in Amsterdam, just after the Internet bubble in 2002, at a time when online and mobile payments services were still in an infancy stage. Dutch Banks individually launched initiatives like Minitix and Way2Pay and other services...