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Blockchain’s Environmental Impact: How Fintech Firms are Seeking Greener Alternatives

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Blockchain technology has transformed the fintech industry, enhancing transaction security and smart contracts. However, energy-intensive consensus mechanisms, such as Proof-of-Work (PoW), have raised concerns about blockchain’s carbon footprint. With environmental issues taking center stage, the fintech sector faces increasing pressure to minimize its ecological impact. This article explores how fintech is adopting greener alternatives like Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and hybrid consensus mechanisms to reduce energy consumption while maintaining blockchain security.

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Transforming Cross – Border Lending with Passportable Financial Identities

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Cross-border lending is becoming increasingly relevant, but the process is often hampered by regulatory discrepancies, challenges in identity verification, and the complexity of assessing creditworthiness across borders. A game-changing solution to these issues is emerging: passportable financial identities. By enabling seamless access to reliable financial information across countries, this innovation has the potential to transform the industry, making cross-border lending safer and more efficient.

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How Fintechs Are Driving the Future of CBDCs and Global Payment Systems

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Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are gaining traction as the future of global financial systems. As this field continues to transform at an unprecedented pace, innovative companies play a pivotal role, assisting central banks in testing, implementing, and popularizing these modern forms of currency. What benefits can these companies bring to the development of CBDCs, and what new approaches might they introduce in managing digital assets?

Discover how collaboration between these forward-thinking firms and central banks could redefine the future of payments worldwide.

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HealthTech Revolution: How Technology is Transforming the Future of Healthcare

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The landscape of healthcare has been dramatically transformed by technological advancements over the past century. From rudimentary record-keeping to the sophisticated integrated health information systems we see today, healthtech IT solutions have played a pivotal role in enhancing patient care, improving outcomes, and streamlining healthcare operations.

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Decentralized Tokenized Markets: The Future of Finance Explained

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The financial industry is currently undergoing a major transformation, with tokenization at its core. Toke­nized assets, which utilize blockchain technology, are poised to revolutionize­ our understanding and engageme­nt with the financial markets. But what does this mean for everyday investors, and how will it impact the future of finance?

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FinTech Wire: Non-Mainstream News for September 2023

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Tired of the constant focus on the same big players in the FinTech world? Curious about what lies beneath the surface of the industry’s glossy exterior? Beneath the shell, there’s a pulsating life force — fresh perspectives, emerging trends, and groundbreaking innovations. Read September’s FinTech Wire: your go-to source for non-mainstream FinTech news this month!

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Blockchain Technology Use Cases in the Banking Sector

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Blockchain in banking. Sounds like an oxymoron, right? A self-contradicting pair of words. On one hand, a disruptive trend and technology. On the other hand, an industry with legacy software and processes that limit the capacity to compete with agile newcomers. The market disagrees and shows us it can be done. Blockchain in the banking sector is a fact. What does it look like?

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How DeFi and Web3 Will Impact Fintech and the Future of Finance Industry

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We are living in a global society where “point oh” defines and describes the evolution of things. Industry, internet, social phenomenons. We got Industry 4.0 and Web 3.0. Both complement and complete each other. To some extent, both are a natural consequence of one another. What is Web 3.0 and what is its impact on DeFi and the future of finance?

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10 Blockchain Trends 2022. Latest Developments in Blockchain

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Current blockchain industry trends show dynamic changes in adoption and market adaptation. The situation with COVID-19 continues to accelerate business processes; blockchain as well. Companies that already use this solution, expand upon it, finding new implementations and entirely new revenue streams. Firms not convinced, cautiously experiment. No matter what’s what, blockchain trends for 2022 clearly show one thing – the age of distributed databases will continue to go strong, with many opportunities along the way.

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Blockchain Uses – Who is Using Blockchain Technology Today?

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The shortest answer? Many companies want to secure their products, digital applications, ways to do business and methods of verifying cash flows. The longer version? The question of “who needs blockchain” should be replaced with “who already is using it and do you need it as well”. You can find arguments for blockchain in a series of our previous articles. This piece is about market confirmation and practical blockchain uses.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Dorota Zimnoch: Rethinking FinTech Trends

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What elements do we factor into the innovation process? How do we use it to our advantage? What are the most disruptive fields of FinTech right now and how did these changes come about? Dorota Zimnoch really understands the mechanisms of innovation as much as she’s aware of the convergence of industries, shared economy and metaverse reality. She joined Code & Pepper for the Ask Me AnyFin session to share her invaluable insights.

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Ask Me AnyFin with Toni Caradonna: Empowering Nature Conservation Through Blockchain

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Arrival of a new technology always stirs up a lot of emotions. It is either met with wild enthusiasm or fierce criticism. This is because of its disruptive potential which both creates new opportunities as well as threatens the status quo. This love and hate dynamic also applies to blockchain. Initially associated with Bitcoin it was criticised for high-energy consumption. Blockchain technology, however, also has its merits such as: transparency, independence and security. That’s why it started to be used in a variety of sectors and for a range of purposes such as secure sharing of medical data or supply chain and logistics monitoring. Our new Ask Me AnyFin guest, Toni Caradonna makes use of blockchain to support nature conservation communities. How does he do it? Find out in the Ask Me AnyFin interview. 

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FinTech Wire #49: Borderless Solutions Empower Their Users and Secure the Biggest Fundings

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How do you overcome barriers? FinTechs featured in this week’s Code & Pepper news selection seem to know the answer providing their audiences with experiences that work across borders, help to save time and most importantly, empower their users to be in charge of their financial wellbeing. Find out more about a major Open Banking event, a fund encouraging NFT projects and successes of companies that optimise processes around payments, money transfers, education loans and donations!

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Ask Me AnyFin with Zion Schum: Community-powered Innovation in Crypto Economy

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How can cryptocurrency change the world? Is blockchain really a problem looking for a solution? In this episode of Ask Me AnyFin, we talk to Zion Schum, the cryptocurrency enthusiast and the CEO and co-founder of Leutheria.com. Check out the video or read the transcript below to find inspiring insights about cryptocurrency and blockchain specifics, its merits and challenges, and the vision of the future of the crypto world.

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How Does Blockchain Work? A Guide for Beginners

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Despite challenges associated with each solution and business model, all FinTech companies face the same basic problem – trust. People confide with these organizations to multiply, keep safe or simply loan money. Their money. That’s why an image is so valuable. There’s a way to build trust and ensure a high level of technical proficiency; all at the same time. It’s called blockchain.

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InsurTech Industry Guide: All You Need To Know About Insurance Technology

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InsurTech stands for insurance technology, but this term can still be considered pretty abstract. After all, how can cutting edge technology work in the insurance industry? As with all innovative ideas, there are many ways to reach the goal. Read on to learn all you need to know about InsurTech industry: its history, how it’s used to make life easier and accelerate business, and what its future is going to look like!

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