fintech digest
How Fintech Roadmaps Are Revolutionising SME Financing, SME Lending in Kosovo And More
Research Team
26 July 2024
How Fintech Roadmaps Are Revolutionising SME Financing in 2024
The concept of a business roadmap has been with us for a long time. More recently you may have also come across the term ‘roadmap’ when it comes to Fintech, Data or ESG. To help explain the trend in 2018 the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Roadmap on Fintech. The priorities were clear. To monitor the regulatory perimeter and emerging trends. whilst promoting best practices, addressing consumer issues and identifying AML risks.
Zvilo - Kosovo's leading digital lender
In this episode we are joined by Zvilo's Founder and CEO Admir Imami. Leveraging the experiences gained across multiple successful exits of previously founded businesses, including a direct lender, factoring company, and asset manager, Admir has built Zvilo into the leading non-bank working capital provider in the Balkans. During our discussion Admir touches on the hurdles he faced along the route of building out a fully digital lender in a market traditionally dominated by relationship banking. Additionally, we gain insights into the unique opportunity posed by the funding gap SMEs in Kosovo currently face.
Revolut secures UK banking licence after three-year battle
Revolut has secured a UK banking licence, ending a more than three-year tussle with regulators and delivering a boost to the fintech’s expansion plans in its home market. The London-based company, which first applied for the licence in early 2021, said on Thursday it had received the permit from the Prudential Regulation Authority.
Institutional tokenization will propel Web3 forward
Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization is currently one of the best-performing sectors in the digital asset landscape, netting investors a 213% return in the first half of 2024, according to BitEye and Wu Blockchain, and fostering institutional interest in Web3.
BlackRock foresees 'very little interest' in crypto ETFs beyond Bitcoin, Ethereum
Asset manager BlackRock sees “very little interest” among clients in crypto beyond Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) and doesn’t foresee many crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) outside of those two core digital assets, according to Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock’s head of digital assets, speaking at the Bitcoin 2024 conference on July 25 in Nashville, Tennessee.