Tagged: disruption

September 6, 2016 @ 1:53 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

When Finnovista first covered Spanish fintech in 2013, the site recorded only 50 startups in the sector; now, three years later, in its first edition of Fintech Radar Spain, the site identified 207 Spanish fintech startups, indicating the sector had quadrupled in three years, stats largely in line with fintech’s global trend. Cofounded… Read More

April 28, 2016 @ 1:03 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

wiseAlpha, an online platform that allows people to invest in secured corporate loans of blue-chip British brand name companies such as Virgin Media, RAC, United Biscuits and Eddie Stobart, aims to give people the opportunity to earn a higher rate of interest and diversify their… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 2:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

CEO and General Manager of Companisto Tamo Zwinge began his career as a lawyer, studying law at the Freie Universität Berlin and completing his legal clerkship in Berlin and Pretoria, South Africa. Afterward, he received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in commercial law, specializing in… Read More

June 26, 2015 @ 1:12 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

In a turning of the tables, VCs recently took the stage before a “Dragons’ Den”-style panel of entrepreneurs to pitch for themselves. The event was held by Innovate Finance, part of a series of events complementing London Tech Week, as Innovate Finance reports. “Could it be time for disruption… Read More

December 30, 2014 @ 7:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending, the industry’s end-to-end lending solution built on Salesforce.com, recently added CL Marketplace, a unified cloud platform that simplifies and automates the entire loan process in marketplace lending, to its suite of cloud-based industry applications that enable non-bank financial institutions to manage loan portfolios, increase transaction volume and rapidly bring new… Read More