Startups with bold FinTech bets and a clued-in audience: an intense 7th FinTech Forum! With startups addressing robo-advisory and cool banking apps, but also “boring but big” pieces of European finance like pensions, credit unions, SEPA payments and financial risk modeling, FTF7 rocked. With “what exactly are you looking for” to very specific questions on the […]
Countdown 7th FinTech Forum (21s April): Line-up shows bolder FinTech bets The line-up of startups – with players taking on business banking, pensions and credit unions – shows how far we have come from our first event back in Nov. 2013. With investments of over $1.3 bn in the region in 2015 second to none in […]
1. Who are you? My name is Christian Tiessen. I studied Business in Germany, Singapore and Spain. After working a few years for consulting and corporates, I founded my first startup in e-commerce. The business grew quite rapidly, and was finally acquired by an American company. Since March 2014 I am working with and on […]
Two reasons to be in Frankfurt on 20th & 21st April : TheFINTECHBook launch & 7th FinTech Forum Reason #1. TheFINTECHBook Launch in Germany: Frankfurt on 20.4.16 at Deutsche Börse, Zuschauergalerie Reason #2. 7th FinTech Forum, Frankfurt on 21.04.16. at The Airport Club, Frankfurt Airport. Read on for more… TheFINTECHBook Launch in Germany: Frankfurt on 20.4.16 at Deutsche […]
Countdown to the 7th FinTech Forum: 21st April 2016 in Frankfurt. The startups on stage will include an IBM Watson powered Cognitive Customer Engagement platform, the only startup in the world to offer a life long pension, and a WhatsApp-meets-PayPal remittance solution. The line-up of investors includes Xange, Ventegis, FinTech Group etc. and several leading financial institutions. […]
Hertha sammelt eine Million Euro in nur neun Minuten via kapilendo.de Eigentlich war die Aktion auf 60 Tage angelegt: Nun sammelt Hertha BSC via Kapilendo.de in Windeseile eine Million Euro bei Anlegern ein. Read more… Congratulations to Team Kapilendo, who are among the startups selected to present at the 7th FinTech Forum on 21st April in Frankfurt: http://www.fintechforum.de/english/ftf7/ Number26 prepares a […]
7th FinTech Forum (21st April 2016): first set of selected startups announced Selected startups include a British and Dutch trio connecting the $1 trillion credit union market (Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken), a PayPal-meets-Whatsapp money transfer and chat platform from Munich, a Finnish startup using blockchain tech for cross-border banking for businesses. Check out the „Startups in a Tweet“ and their founders, and register here: […]
1. Who are you? I’m the founder and CEO of Bitbond, a global peer-to-peer lending platform for small business loans. Before starting Bitbond I was a consultant at Roland Berger’s restructuring practice. Prior to that I worked in sales & trading at Deutsche Bank London. 2. Which services do you sell and who are your competitors? […]
Auxmoney Raises Series D from Seven Ventures Auxmoney, one of the oldest German p2p lending marketplaces, has completed a Series D round with Seven Ventures as lead investor. The specifics were not disclosed, only that Seven Ventures along with Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures und Foundation Capital invested a double digit million Euro amount. Read […]
The bank that fintech built: Number26 and TransferWise team up to re-invent banking Two European fintech startups are teaming up to give a glimpse of what the bank of tomorrow could look like. Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has announced a tie-up with London-based peer-to–peer money-transfer firm TransferWise. Read more… Deutsche […]