Global banking and fintech market signals – November 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 services. Move fast and break things? How to destroy [...]
Challenging giants
When CEO Wouter Verschuren took over the reins of Istec from his father Dé Verschuren, Wouter set his vision on growing the business by taking on the global competitors and launching the company into new geographical markets. Wouter [...]
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 customer base. Fintech is here to stay Fintech, i.e. [...]
Global banking and fintech market 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 services. Techcrunch: Uber Money is Uber’s new team focused [...]
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, we provided an outsiders’ view on how Dutch 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 define the key cornerstones of an Open Banking strategy [...]
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 strives to conquer new terrain, which requires keeping his [...]
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 & Trust Summit organised by Holland Fintech and Holland [...]
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 particular expertise in deep tech; especially in AI and [...]
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. Are banks ready? The global regulatory direction of the [...]
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 provided an outsiders’ view on how Dutch banks are [...]
Adrian Klee joins Ross Republic as partner
Our operations in Amsterdam are charging ahead, and the daily grind tends to revolve around securing growth in one form or another. Growing the company’s network, acquiring new business and successfully running clients’ projects all play into reaching [...]