The 2008 crisis made the world lose hope in the banking sector that was dominated by a few big banks. … Read More “In 2020, Revolut had more downloads than Monese, Starling and Atom Bank Combined”
On 4 January 2021, WhatsApp announced a new version of its Privacy Policy. The changes to the Privacy Policy were … Read More “Can WhatsApp Read my Chats? Reinvestigating WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy”
The financial industry today is undergoing a major transformation that demands new skills and roles to keep its engine well … Read More “The Top 6 Roles in Financial Services and Fintech in 2021”
Some weeks ago, at CFTE we started our “One Fintech chart a day” series in an attempt to bring granular … Read More “The top 3 financial platforms have experienced collective growth of 800%+ in 5 years, over 100x more than FIs”
Is it time we start considering finance providers with platform business models to be competing more on the Big Techs … Read More “With 2x more the revenue per employee, platforms are now much closer to looking like Big Techs”
Are challenger banks actually banks? We’ve looked at the top 10 challenger banks by valuation, and the results will surprise you.
Two weeks ago we published our analysis of the top 10 financial institutions by market capitalisation throughout the decade. We … Read More “Platform-based financial institutions are valued over 10x more per employee than traditional FIs”
Technology has radically changed finance over the last decade. From posing challenges such as how to digitize the incredibly huge … Read More “5 of the Top 10 Financial Institutions are now platforms”
In one of our previous articles, CFTE used the number of clicks taken to open a bank account as an … Read More “What do consumers think of banking apps?”
CFTE took a look into our own books, researching which banks we are currently using the have our salary paid … Read More “Can UK challenger banks ever replace incumbent banks as our primary bank account?”