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Maso Arai joins RR as partner
Maso is a well rounded professional, with expertise in both financial services and engineering industries. He is an ideal addition to Ross Republic’s partner pool to boost both the level of the expertise we offer clients, as well [...]
Building the next generation of SME banking services
The SME banking segment is ripe for disruption. After a first wave of digital UX focused fintechs, there are now plenty of product and service innovation opportunities to create truly customer-centric SME banking propositions. [...]
An analysis of Europe’s key SME fintechs
A deep-dive analysis of European fintech players offering new digital business banking services for SMEs. Several well-funded fintech companies that exclusively focus on serving the freelance or SME market segment have been founded in [...]
The SME market opportunity for fintechs and banks
A snapshot of the financial services sector’s small business market opportunity in Europe. Business banking is the new fintech battlefield. Due to the large size and potential of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) [...]
New CEO for continuing growth
The year, which just ended, was probably as strange and astonishing to everyone. However, there is no new normal and the world remains exactly as it was before. A perpetual wonderful chaos of cause and effect, caring little [...]
Asia is the next frontier in open banking
Due to the rise of extensive digital ecosystems and financial super apps, Asia is a forerunner of open banking. This post provides and overview of the latest open banking developments in Asia, key players to look out for [...]
Recapping embedded banking at Amsterdam Fintech Week
We joined Hubuc’s panel discussion at the virtual Amsterdam Fintech Week 2020 to discuss the next-generation of banking infrastructure and the embedded banking trend together with Mastercard and Currencycloud. It was a pleasure to [...]
Fortech and Ross Republic enable banks’ shift to digital
Fortech and Ross Republic kickstart a new cooperation to offer banks and fintechs the best of innovation and technology strategy and software development. Together, we help financial institutions to seize the latest technological possibilities and bring new digital [...]
The ghost kitchens of finance
A snapshot on the emerging fields of embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Platform. The global surge in food delivery demand has triggered a clever business model innovation: virtual restaurants, without any brick-and-mortar operations, have begun to [...]
Hubuc and Ross Republic boost embedded finance
Ross Republic becomes European go-to-market partner of Hubuc, a provider of next generation fintech infrastructure. Together, we enable brands to improve user experiences and tap into new revenue lines by seamlessly embedding financial services into their customer journeys. [...]
Three fintech learnings from the Wirecard scandal
The headlines just kept coming last week. Wirecard postponed the disclosure of its annual report again, after its auditor EY couldn’t verify the existence of ca. $2 billion in foreign escrow accounts. Shortly after, the CEO Markus Braun [...]
How banks can unlock the potential of open finance
As banking increasingly becomes a technology play, the usage of internal and external application programming interfaces (APIs) is surging. That’s why API management platforms are crucial for financial services providers to reach true digital leadership. [...]
Maso Arai joins RR as partner
Maso is a well rounded professional, with expertise in both financial services and engineering industries. He is an ideal addition to Ross Republic’s partner pool to boost both the level of the expertise we offer clients, as well [...]
Building the next generation of SME banking services
The SME banking segment is ripe for disruption. After a first wave of digital UX focused fintechs, there are now plenty of product and service innovation opportunities to create truly customer-centric SME banking propositions. [...]
An analysis of Europe’s key SME fintechs
A deep-dive analysis of European fintech players offering new digital business banking services for SMEs. Several well-funded fintech companies that exclusively focus on serving the freelance or SME market segment have been founded in [...]
The SME market opportunity for fintechs and banks
A snapshot of the financial services sector’s small business market opportunity in Europe. Business banking is the new fintech battlefield. Due to the large size and potential of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) [...]
New CEO for continuing growth
The year, which just ended, was probably as strange and astonishing to everyone. However, there is no new normal and the world remains exactly as it was before. A perpetual wonderful chaos of cause and effect, caring little [...]
Asia is the next frontier in open banking
Due to the rise of extensive digital ecosystems and financial super apps, Asia is a forerunner of open banking. This post provides and overview of the latest open banking developments in Asia, key players to look out for [...]
Recapping embedded banking at Amsterdam Fintech Week
We joined Hubuc’s panel discussion at the virtual Amsterdam Fintech Week 2020 to discuss the next-generation of banking infrastructure and the embedded banking trend together with Mastercard and Currencycloud. It was a pleasure to [...]
Fortech and Ross Republic enable banks’ shift to digital
Fortech and Ross Republic kickstart a new cooperation to offer banks and fintechs the best of innovation and technology strategy and software development. Together, we help financial institutions to seize the latest technological possibilities and bring new digital [...]
The ghost kitchens of finance
A snapshot on the emerging fields of embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Platform. The global surge in food delivery demand has triggered a clever business model innovation: virtual restaurants, without any brick-and-mortar operations, have begun to [...]
Hubuc and Ross Republic boost embedded finance
Ross Republic becomes European go-to-market partner of Hubuc, a provider of next generation fintech infrastructure. Together, we enable brands to improve user experiences and tap into new revenue lines by seamlessly embedding financial services into their customer journeys. [...]
Three fintech learnings from the Wirecard scandal
The headlines just kept coming last week. Wirecard postponed the disclosure of its annual report again, after its auditor EY couldn’t verify the existence of ca. $2 billion in foreign escrow accounts. Shortly after, the CEO Markus Braun [...]
How banks can unlock the potential of open finance
As banking increasingly becomes a technology play, the usage of internal and external application programming interfaces (APIs) is surging. That’s why API management platforms are crucial for financial services providers to reach true digital leadership. [...]
The state of banking entering 2022
As a part of our latest white paper release with Tuum, we have invited Simon Ousager, CEO of Januar, to discuss the main customer and market trends that currently impact the banking industry. We [...]
Accelerating innovation in the wealth management industry
Why wealth managers should go all-in on digital transformation by approaching technology transformation through the lens of business model innovation. In order to cope with the structural market shifts ahead of the wealth management [...]
Tom Miller joins RR as advisor
Tom is a leader of leaders, with a long career in banking and IT. He is an outstanding addition to the expertise we offer clients, as well as our internal journey of improvement and growth. We asked him [...]
Embedded finance panel at Fintech ReImagined 2021
A summary of our discussion with Adeva and Hubuc at the FinTech ReImagined Forum Panel: The Rise of Embedded Finance - Next Frontier. The Fintech ReImagined Forum took place last week and provided an [...]
Why APIs are fundamental to the rise of embedded finance
A short synopsis of our recent conversation with weavr and TransactionLink about the definition and interplay of Banking-as-a-Service, embedded finance and API-driven banking. API technology is revolutionising the fintech and the financial sector in [...]
Five priorities for executives for the era of open finance
A significant shift is on the horizon of the banking industry, and it is not borne out of technological or data-based advances; it is instead human and mindset-driven change for the world of ecosystems. The new era of [...]
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