Category: Doing Business Overseas

The pandemic catalysed a surge in startups across the world, with many believing they could attain the success that others before them had achieved. One of these beacons of hope is London-based fintech, Revolut, a startup superstar that was founded in 2015 and is now worth $33billion.  The company launched in Australia in mid-2019 as…

The Card & Payments Awards 2022, one of the leading networking events of the year for the UK and Irish card and payments industry, took place on Thursday 5 May 2022. More than 1000 guests from over 300 different companies gathered together at the evening event at the JW Marriott Grosvenor Square in London hosted…

How can integrating feedback into the payments journey can optimise the customer checkout experience and counter the emergence of fake reviews? Brian Coburn, Founder and CEO of BR-DGE, a payment orchestration service for e-commerce businesses explains. Some of you might have heard the story of the much-acclaimed restaurant “The Shed at Dulwich”. In 2017, it…

Between 2020 and 2021, uptake in the cloud user base grew exponentially as businesses went virtual in the wake of the pandemic. In 2022, 94 per cent of all enterprises use cloud services, and a business may run an average of 1,000 virtual machines or more at a time in virtualised environments and public clouds.…

The internet (Web1 and Web2) changed our lives in profound ways. Once again we are on the brink of another big change. We are at a point of transition between technological evolutions that are going to change how we play, how we shop, how we hang out with friends, and even how we go to…

On this weeks episode of News & Views, The Fintech Times Podcast team speak on Invoice processing, Biometric age verification & what Elon Musk purchasing Twitter means for the Fintech Industry.

Like brakes to a bicycle, fintech must exist within the realms of regulation if it is to ditch its ‘wild west’ persona. Indeed, the adoption of various elements of the industry, like cryptocurrency, has ultimately suffered due to the lack of regulation that surrounds and supports them. Throughout the entire month of May, The Fintech…

Payful, a new startup dedicated to eradicating late invoice payments across B2B transactions has secured its place on Enterprise City’s ‘Exchange Support Scheme’. As part of the selection, the fledgling Manchester-based fintech will now move its offices to the city’s famous Bonded Warehouse. The ‘Exchange Support Scheme’ will help Payful as it begins to scale…

On Thursday 5 May, Smart Money People revealed the winners of the British Bank Awards 2022, at a glamorous awards ceremony in the heart of London, hosted by comedian Lucy Porter. It was the first in-person awards event for the Smart Money People team since March 2020, when the British Bank Awards were held just…

The latest consumer research from the crypto platform Coinbase has found that a third of UK consumers have previously, or still own cryptocurrency; revealing a 29 per cent rise in just six months.  Among the 33 per cent that own cryptocurrency, 61 per cent expect to increase their holdings over the next 12 months, compared…