Marcel van Oost

Good morning FinTech Fanatic, Let’s start with some news from my hometown. First we go back to April this year, when Amsterdam-based neobank Bunq announced their ambitious plans to apply for a US banking license. Bunq is hardly the only European neobank to eye the U.S. in recent

Happy Friday FinTech Fanatic, In the wake of Alison Rose’s resignation as chief executive of NatWest group last week, after discussing Nigel Farage’s Coutts bank account with the BBC, and Coutts CEO Peter Flavel stepping down over the same delicate issue, more cases are getting public. This time

Terrific Thursday fellow FinTech Fanatic, Ever wondered what lies beyond the digital screens of a neobank? I came across an interesting read, which I think is worth sharing with you; an exclusive peek in Revolut’s backend architecture. Revolut is the largest neobank in the UK and Europe with more

Wonderful Wednesday FinTech Fanatic, Yesterday Rapyd, a leading global FinTech-as-a-Service provider, announced the acquisition of PayU Global Payment Organisation (GPO) of Netherlands-based Prosus, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Rapyd will purchase PayU GPO for $610 million. The acquisition accelerates Rapyd&

Good morning! This weekend I came across these interesting stats from India that show that 75% of Indian FinTech Unicorns are loss-making. Currently, India has 22 FinTech unicorns with a combined valuation of $68 Bn+ – but 3 out of 4 of them are loss-making. As per Inc42 Media data, 655+

Happy Monday FinTech Fanatic, German retailer Zalando has partnered with savrr, a relatively unknown start-up until recently. Together, they offer German Zalando customers a new service: ‘Save Now Buy Later’ (SNBL), the counterpart of ‘buy now pay later’. What are the main differences between BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later) and