David Birch, an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services, gave an exclusive interview to the magazine Invest Foresight. David …
Alexey Minin: Megaplatfroms to take over financial markets
Not a single conference on economy matters avoids discussing artificial intelligence and big data. Not long ago though, in the …
Government procurements help crowdlending platforms in outcompeting banks
Since its registration in 2016, Penenza crowdlending platform has extended some RUR 17 billion ($300 mio) of loans to small …
P2P lending market’s fivefold growth?
Vladislav Oleynikov – General Director of Town Money P2P lending platform Recently, StartTrack crowdinvesting marketplace held a media conference on …
Potok.Digital’s business risks prognostication
Since its launch, website Potok.Digital owned by Alfa-Bank, has issued over RUR 1 bln loans and is now growing by …
Do banks really need blockchain?
In their book Blockchain. How It Works and What Lies Ahead (Moscow, Alpina Publisher, 2018), Artem Genkin and Alexei Mikheev …
Blockchain insurance advancements
Alexander Kreiderman, VP for IT, Renaissance Insurance Group In the insurance industry, blockchain technologies’ most interesting prospects are in dealing …
Distant customers
Remote customer identification will be launched in Russia’s banking market to become the main 2018 event. A respective bill was …
Bernard Lietaer: Why not taking a risk?
Bernard Lietaer is an expert in monetary relations and complementary currencies, including digital ones. He gave an exclusive interview to …
E-check: Old instrument’s new life
Mikhail Solovyov – Deputy CEO for Development, Platbox online payment system The present-day international payment market offers a huge variety …