The percentage of individuals that use internet banking is growing in the European Union (28 countries, including the United Kingdom) from 36% in 2010 to 58% in 2019. The increasing number of mobile banking users proves that mobile banking has a lot of advantages.
The last months have dramatically changed things in the global world. Still, there are no options to turn off the global finance sector. The use of fintech apps is rising. Investments in fintech startups are growing. The best fintech startups of 2020 aim to fulfill newly emerged consumers’ needs. In this article, you will read about 12 hot fintech startups of 2020.
With steady growth and determination of FinTech startups investors, FinTech is predicted to reach $4.7 trillion in valuation. Plenty of innovative and lucrative fresh fintech companies start changing finance industries in countries all over the world. No wonder that investing in FinTech startups is an attractive and popular option among venture capitalists.
In the dark ages before core banking software was a thing, transactions between different branches of a single bank took at least one day if the wind was fair and the weather favorable. Thanks to the expansive implementation of the core banking, the situation improved drastically, and now, 24 hours per transaction is a horror-movie material.
Artificial intelligence is here to… No, not to steal your job but rather to make it easier and its — results more impressive, at least, concerning cybersecurity services. If properly harnessed and used, the power of AI and machine learning can significantly improve the levels of software protection.
AI for cybersecurity is quite a theme to discuss and imagine things about. In this article, we will scratch the surface of the topic to get that essential understanding of the matter; we will examine how and for what purposes people use AI and machine learning; we will learn about the benefits and challenges that AI poses.
Do people still build online marketplaces? Hell yeah, they do. More than half of all online marketplaces were launched in the last 7 years. The market continues to grow, people are more willing to buy and sell, online, new countries enter the level of economic prosperity that is just right for online marketplaces. The opportunities are ripe to harvest.
Recently updated on July 22, 2024In the article on personal finance apps, we said that overt repetition about security in fintech is…
Fast backward to ancient Babylonia, 1800 BC give or take several hundred years (yeah, no historic accuracy for us here). Imagine you are a farmer named Abum-kila-ilim, and you need a loan because the latest harvest wasn’t spectacular, your livestock is underfed, and you… you’re quite likely underfed as well. Where would you go? That’s right: to the shrine of Shamash, the sun-god and the lord of justice and righteousness!
Considering that the United Kingdom is among the global technology leaders, it’s quite possible that the next “Amazon//Google/[Insert tech giant of your choice here],” which will change the digital ecosystem forever, is currently rising to its feet on the Kingdom’s islands.
In this article, we gathered the diverse Top of UK Startups to Watch for in 2020, which have the potential to shake the IT and real world.