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What is financial education, and where does it begin? Interview with Finstep
In an interview with Christian Binder, the founder of Finstep, we talked about the current state of financial education in Germany. The fintech company’s app features animated short videos that tackle questions like “How do I finance my education?” and “How do I get my first apartment?” while engaging young people with gamification approaches.
There is no digital transformation without a digital mindset: interview with ONESTOPTRANSFORMATION
How can banks successfully implement transformation? Interview with Julian Knorr, CEO of ONESTOPTRANSFORMATION AG, provides comprehensive insights into the multifaceted nature of digital transformation and elaborates how a digital mindset underpins technological innovation, process optimization and new business models.
Skill-based recruiting in the financial sector
Interview with Simon Läpple, Magnit, about agile approaches to pursue his vision of a collaboration between companies and talented employees that is beneficial to everyone involved.
How financially literate is Gen Z? An interview with Tomorrow
What similarities and differences are there between Generation Z and other generations in their handling of, attitude towards and knowledge of their own finances? This question prompted us to talk to Maria Mondry, Head of Banking at Tomorrow, about the topic of financial literacy.
Agile leadership in times of change
The key lever for a successful modern organizations is agile leadership. What are the main challenges and what is their impact on leadership?
Alternative asset classes – investing beyond stocks and bonds
Overview of selected alternative asset classes, trends and implications for market participants.
Ambidexterity: successfully managing contradictions
What is ambidexterity? How can banks and insurance companies implement it?
Artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics in the financial services sector
The term “artificial intelligence” refers to technologies that emulate and support human abilities in seeing, hearing, analyzing, deciding and acting.
Asset tokenization: the path towards securities 2.0
What exactly does tokenization mean and how can banks profit from it?
Change management in IT transformation projects – esoteric or indispensable?
What is Change management?
Digital assets – what is it all about? Definition and development of a market that will be worth billions
Which drivers will influence the market environment for digital assets in the future?
Digital euro – definition and benefits
The digital euro is coming. The digital euro’s design will determine how it is going to benefit citizens and banks.
End-to-end organization (E2E)
E2E processes encompass a ready-to-go service delivery concept that covers the entirety of customer needs – at least from their point of view.
ESG – What does ESG mean for the financial sector?
Sustainability is a megatrend that permeates all levels of social life. What impact do ESG (environmental, social and governance) criteria have on banks? – Challenges and opportunities for banks.
Intelligent process automation – what’s that? Definition and development
Intelligent process automation refers to the transformation of business processes that previously could not be automated, because they involved the processing of unstructured data, and therefore had to be performed manually.
Metaverse – What’s in it for financial institutions?
What is the metaverse? What are the use cases for financial institutions and what key factors need to be considered when establishing a presence?
MiCAR unveiled: our comprehensive guide to crypto asset regulation in the EU
An overview of the European Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation
What is asset management? Definition + trends
The term “asset management” refers to the financial service of managing assets by means of financial instruments with the aim of increasing the invested assets.
What is Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS)?
What is Banking-as-a-Service? Which banks and institutions may benefit from BaaS?
Various types of electronic securities and tokens that are issued using DLT systems
Crypto fund unit
A crypto fund unit is a share in investment funds or in individual share classes of an investment fund that is registered in a crypto securities register. The German Electronic Securities Act (Gesetz zur Einführung von elektronischen Wertpapieren, eWpG) also extends to electronic investment funds share certificates, which can thereby also be held in a central register.
Crypto security
Crypto securities are a new form of issuance for bearer bonds via a DLT-based crypto securities register.
Cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency is a digital asset that enables cashless payments independent from any intermediaries or can be used for investment purposes.
Electronic stock
The German Financing for the Future Act (Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz, ZuFinG) enables the DLT-based issuance of electronic stocks.
Non-fungible token (NFT)
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique digital assets that can be issued and traded via DLT.
Security tokens
Security tokens are securities that represent a digital twin of an asset.
Components of the DLT infrastructure in our topic glossary