By Jasper Kuria, Bill Bryant for Techcrunch.com
Pundits are painting a picture of doom and gloom for startups, saying it will be harder to raise money. What do you think? (more…)
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Lessons from a Long-Forgotten ‘Fintech Bank’
By Bryan Yurkan for American Banker
Sometimes pioneers are forgotten by the time their idea comes into vogue. (more…)
Talking About A Fintech Revolution
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Technological innovations have played an important role in disrupting sometimes complacent industries and markets. Transportation innovators like Uber and Lyft have used new technologies to revolutionize the way individuals travel from location to location, while others like Plated and Blue Apron have begun to change individuals’ food consumption habits.
Fintech Startup Aims To Help Boomers Manage Retirement Income
By Janet Novack for Forbes
How much can you spend each year in retirement if you don’t want to outlive your money? Should you delay claiming Social Security benefits if doing so requires you to take money from your 401(k) or IRA before required payouts begin? What’s the most tax efficient way to draw down various pots of money? Should you annuitize some of your wealth? Tap home equity with a reverse mortgage? If Brexit or some other event slams your portfolio, how much should you cut back on discretionary spending? Will you need additional help managing your finances as you age? (more…)
A New Chatbot Would Like to Help You With Your Bank Account
By Cade Metz for Wired
I JUST ASKED a bot to tell me how much I spent on coffee this past month. And a few moments later, it replied. “Let’s see,” it said. “You spent $199.83.” (more…)
Five Lessons From Some Of Today’s Hottest, Billion-Dollar Startups.
By Bijan Khosravi for Forbes
What makes the billion dollar startups so unique? The answer is distribution. They either create a whole new market, like Uber and Airbnb did with the sharing economy, or they massively disrupt existing markets, such as healthcare and finance. Here are five companies that made it into the “billion dollar club” and my analysis of what set them apart. (more…)
Fintech Is Ending Money Management as We Know It
By Barry Ritholtz for Bloomberg View
Financial Technology Partners is a San Francisco-based investment-banking firm focused, appropriately enough, on the financial-technology industry. I managed to get my hands on its new report of how fintech is altering the landscape for money management. The report looks at industry trends, interviews numerous fintech executives and sizes up all of the usual big picture Silicon Valley stuff.
Why Venture Capital is Facing Decentralization
By Tomasz Tunguz for Inc Magazine
Originally published by Tomasz Tunguz on LinkedIn: The Decentralization Of Venture Capital
To thrive, venture capital firms must perform three things well: raise capital from limited partners, source companies to invest in, and pick the best opportunities. Historically, each of these three activities has been highly centralized in a small partnership often perched on Sand Hill Road. But new networks are changing this. The latest called DAO attempts to decentralize all three at once. (more…)
For Fintech Disruptors, Regulatory Freedom Will Be Fleeting
By Frank Sorrentino for Forbes
As long as there has been business, there has been disruption. A recent Harvard Business Review article discussed the concept of “spontaneous deregulation,” when a shiny new technology or innovative business model emerges onto the scene, disrupts its industry and – temporarily – renders existing rules and regulations obsolete. (more…)
“Uber moment” for financial industry
Serguei Netessine is Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD (Singapore campus), and Research Director of INSEAD-Wharton Alliance. He is angel investor, startup advisor, industry consultant and speaker on entrepreneurship and innovation. His recent book “The Risk-Driven Business Model: Four Questions that will Define your Company” was published by Harvard Business Press in 2014. (more…)
Vladislav Solodkiy about London Finovate 2016
By Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing partner of Life.SREDA VC
for Fintechranking
With fintech being one of the hottest new sectors for both tech and finance, premiere events in the field have become must-visit affairs for a fintech VC like me.
Vladislav Solodkiy: 4 reasons to believe the fintech hype
Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing partner of Life.SREDA for VentureBeat.com
Over the past year, the fintech industry has transformed from a hypothetical hotspot to an actual one.
8 Reasons To Buy a FinTech Startup
Fintech startups: who buys them and why? They’re expensive, lossmaking and overvalued. Why people even pay for them?
By Igor Pesin, Partner at Life.SREDA
WhatsWeFaceTelKaLiVibeSnap Pay: comparison of messengers’ payment functions
Eighteen months ago, Mark Zuckerberg announced an unofficial messengers’ race for better and faster monetization of a customer base by integrating remittances and payments. How have the players succeeded so far?
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Singapore’s true way to a cashless society
Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing Partner, Life.SREDA VC:
These days many countries are talking about the importance of innovations in the financial sector. Many of those are claiming that they will soon become the first to go completely cashless. They may be saying so, but what if they don’t really know how to do it? (more…)
12 rules of investing like Yuri Milner
Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing Partner, Life.SREDA VC:
Many thanks to Oleg Tinkov for introducing me to Yuri Milner, and Leonid Soloviev for connecting me with John Lindfors and Tom Stafford. (more…)
22 Business Books That Blew My Mind And Changed Me
Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing Partner, Life.SREDA VC:
I am often asked for tips on good books to read. Recently I have posted an article in Russian listing my favourite business books, which got over 70 thousand views. I hope that the English-speaking folks will also find it useful. (more…)
12 lessons from BBVA and Goldman Sachs: how banks should regard fintech
Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing Partner, Life.SREDA VC
“Innovator’s Dilemma”: are the banks capable of making innovations by themselves? (more…)
13 fintech services useful for SME
Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing Partner, Life.SREDA VC:
If you take a look at the news about fintech startups, you might get a feeling that all the new financial services are built for retail clients, but not for businesses. However, these are namely the entrepreneurs that may become drivers of fintech, especially in Asia. (more…)
Unitary Asian Cryptocurrency Would Revolutionise Fintech: Life.SREDA’s Vladislav Solodkiy
DEALSTREETASIA: The recent entry of several fintech-focused accelerators into the Singapore startup ecosystem is laying the foundations for a sophisticated fintech ecosystem in the city-state. This development has played a significant part in the Russian venture capital firm Life.SREDA’s shifting its HQ from Moscow to Singapore. With the recent move by Life.SREDA VC to migrate to Singapore, along with its proposed $100 million second fund, DEALSTREETASIA caught up with its managing partner Vladislav Solodkiy, who is also the Chairman of the Board of LifePay Global, which provides mPos services across CIS and Asia Pacific markets.Edited Excerpts (more…)
10 Major Trends of the 2014 Year
Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing Partner of Life.SREDA VC, highlights ten most interesting trends of 2014 year in FinTech industry.
