Interviews

Fintech & Ecommerce

‘Customer Experience Above All’ Says Yuriy Batkhin, Mastercard’s VP for BD in Ukraine and Moldova

Ukraine is actively transitioning to digital payments, leaving cash in the past. This process and the role that Mastercard—one of the trendsetters in payment innovations—plays in it are discussed below. Despite the full-scale war in Ukraine, innovative technological solutions are being intensively implemented in the payment sector, and Ukrainians are increasingly refusing cash and using […]

Blockchain & Crypto

The DARE Issue with Christina Rolle

Speaking at Consensus in late April, the Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Philip Davis, announced the island country’s new set of regulations for cryptocurrency — the DARE Bill. While in the West an entire industry grapples with the government’s inability to offer appropriate policies and a simultaneous, punitive enforcement of laws not designed with the […]

Blockchain & Crypto

The Crypto of Future with Jack Jia

Jack Jia has been in the tech avant garde for over a decade. With rationality always in mind (based on a very sensible and rich resume), Jia’s qualities and insights make him the perfect person to ask about crypto and its future. His near-immediate decision to get into crypto after discovering Bitcoin was a perfectly […]

Articles

Kostiantyn Koshelenko Explains Ukraine’s New Digital Humanitarian Platform eDopomoga

The humanitarian platform eDopomoga was created by the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine and the Information and Computing Center of the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine State Enterprise with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the World Bank and UNDP in Ukraine with the financial support of Sweden. The platform has […]

Blockchain & Crypto

Andrey Elinson: Cryptocurrencies Have Become a Tool for Long-Term Investments

Cryptotrader Andrey Elinson shares his vision of the new realities of crypto trading. After the November fall, Bitcoin rate went up again and many crypto traders made preparations in anticipation of a new rise in cryptocurrencies. However, experts can’t agree on whether Bitcoin rising in value is a real bullish trend or the last rise […]

Fintech & Ecommerce

‘To succeed in embedded finance, you must deliver on your promise of helping partners scale’: interview with Mikkel Velin, Co-CEO at YouLend

Mikkel Velin, Co-CEO at YouLend, shares his thoughts on the future of embedded finance, YouLend’s latest achievements and many more. What inspired you to get into fintech? In the early days of my career at traditional financial services firms, I noted that after the 2008 financial crisis, a gap had emerged in financing offerings, and […]