JAX Finance Blog

We spoke with Neira Jones about trends in technology for finance, Blockchain's part in recent developments and if FinTech is still disruptive. She sees the change as a challenge for incumbents which not everyone is capable of mastering.

“It broadens your view once you know that there are others dealing with similar problems and possible solutions” says Marc Schumacher, Senior Software Engineer at Zalando Payments, after attending JAX Finance 2016. In this article he shares his insights and lessons learned from the conference. Thank you Marc, see you soon in London!

Andreas Staub sees FinTech under pressure because of its lack of social impact and states that human behavior is the leading variable for business decisions. This and more we learned from the behavioral economist in the following interview.

Spot the concrete advantages of the new functions of Java 8 and discover how they result in an increased scope of application in finance.

Tech giants have quite a lot of aces up their sleeve, including access to their customers’ mobile phones. FinTech Influencer Spiros Margaris predicts that they are going to take the insurance industry by storm —
incumbents are already feeling the pressure.

Right now, we have mobile money services available in 90 emerging market to over 1.9 billion people globally. This number may double by 2022, according to Mike Quindazzi, who sees the emerging markets with their unbanked people as FinTech’s largest global opportunity.

FinTech Influencer Jim Marous tells us what the future of finance is going to look like, how investement strategies in FinTech going to change and what the biggest trends right now are.

IT is a must have for most banks these days – a massive change from its previous “optional” status. That being said, if banks are trying to win developers over, why shouldn’t the latter learn a bit about this sector? This JAX Magazine issue is packed with goodies — it’s our treat!

FinTechs inspire the market while classic banks adopt more and more practices from the FinTech world in order to stay ahead of the curve. But what are the elements of the FinTech revolution? Eric Horesnyi, the whiz kid of startups, discusses with movers and shakers from the FinTech scene and gives you an insight into this revolution.

FinTech Influencer Chris Gledhill believes the future of finance will feature some big names that one would not immediatly associate with banking today: Starbucks, Facebook, Alibaba, Lego, Uber, Microsoft, Disney etc.