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...
Yesterday was the day that Eric Ries, a world renowned entrepreneur, mostly known for igniting the ‘lean start-up’ movement, arrived in Amsterdam after a long flight from his home-town San Francisco to give an inspiring speech and work-shop about the lean start-up philosophy. We at...
Crowdfunding Day 2015, the largest EU crowdfunding event, will be held in AmsterdamCrowdfunding is growing very fast. Douw&Koren recently published a report showing that in 2014 €63 Million is raised by the Dutch crowdfunding platforms. Being twice as much as in 2013. Other reports show...
Finovate Europe was a great conference, but how to place the information and contacts in the right context. Ad how to come to an actionable follow up.Finovate (past 10/11 February, London), is one of the bigger FinTech conferences in Europe. At the conference we saw...
Mid February London was the stage of FinovateEurope, the prime FinTech event in Europe. The event hosted over 72 FinTech startups who introduced themselves to 1,250 visitors in 7 minutes time each. No boring Powerpoint presentations, only live demos were allowed. The visitors were made...
A Report Of Our Latest Meet-upMost regard Friday the 13th as a day of bad luck, but we at Holland Fintech think unlike the masses and thought it was actually a good day to organize an educational and entertaining event about alternative financing options for...
Interview with Calum MacLeod, Behaviosec Calum MacLeod is not the youngster you expect to work for a start-up like Behaviosec. He explains that he joined Behaviosec as director of business development a half year ago, when he had the opportunity to team up again with a...