Is every brand a bank these days?
As the entry barrier to the banking segment decreases, a growing cohort of companies branch out into banking-like services with the aim to extract additional revenue from their existing [...]
Global banking and fintech signals – October 2019
Our monthly commentary and curation of market signals within the fintech and banking industry. We filter out the noise and present ideas that shape the next generation of financial [...]
How ING is innovating its way to the bank of the future
In cooperation with Holland Fintech, Accenture and others we recently released a report on the Dutch banking innovation ecosystem. Based on Ross Republic’s project work with several international banks, [...]
Launching the Open Banking strategy canvas
The Open Banking strategy canvas is an easy to use tool we created for any company or start-up striving to seize new opportunities from Open Banking. It helps to [...]
The lean path to unlimited possibilities
The COO of Ross Republic, Jussi Hyttinen, is not only known for a bias towards action and lean execution in business. He is also an off-road motorcycle fanatic who [...]
Recap Tech & Trust Summit Amsterdam by Holland Fintech
We gave a keynote at last week’s Tech & Trust Summit in Amsterdam, talking about success factors of corporate digitalisation. Last week on October 3rd we joined the Tech [...]
Timo Haanpää joins Ross Republic as Senior Advisor
I’m very pleased to announce that Timo Haanpää joins Ross Republic as a senior advisor. His game is building new high tech ventures from inception to viable businesses, with [...]
Analysis of the Dutch fintech and banking landscape
In cooperation with Holland Fintech, Accenture and other fintech experts we examined the state of fintech and banking in the Netherlands. The Dutch banking market [...]
Moving past the hype of Open Banking
Since the PSD2 deadline hit two weeks ago on Sept 14th, we can finally leave the reductive threat vs. opportunity discussion behind us and start exploring meaningful, customer-centric applications. [...]
How Dutch lender NIBC boosts innovation
In cooperation with Holland Fintech, Accenture, Fincog and Infinium we created a new report on the Dutch banking innovation ecosystem. Based on Ross Republic’s project work with several international banks, we [...]