Everything Marc Bernegger said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Only a few European payment startups will survive the current hype
“If you look into the payment space, there's no way that yeah, all of these innovative players and ideas will succeed. So out of the hundreds of companies just in Europe, Focusing on, on these disruptive changes. I think that at the end, just a few will succeed…”
Offering traditional banking for free rarely builds a large business
“Just by offering the same service like a traditional bank is doing let's say for free and much more efficient. It's great for the customer, but perhaps difficult to build a big business out of it.”
Fintech funding will triple again in 2015 alongside increased M&A
“We will see similar growth in this year, just because also a little, a lot of big players out of the traditional financial industry are joining the game. So there will be more M&A activities, more even more fundings and investment rounds.”
Blockchain is a game changer, but Bitcoin faces a difficult future
“The future of blockchain is big. The future of Bitcoin is difficult, but I would separate it. So I think blockchain is really a game changer, and Bitcoin just a small part of the whole blockchain development.”
Major telcos will launch mobile payments to compete with Facebook and Snapchat
“I think there are much more other big players offering similar services in the next few months, including a lot of the big telcos, because they're not really interested just to let the Facebooks and Snapchats taking away this interesting interaction to the end…”
Around 40,000 people work in the UK fintech sector
“You're, I think having around 40,000 people working somehow connected to the fintech industry.”
Swiss fintech will compete directly with the UK by 2017
“But I mean, it looks promising that we will accelerate and hopefully, I would say in two years from now can catch up and compete directly to first movers like the UK, for example.”
No platform has successfully cracked social stock market trading yet
“The social element, I think it's something nobody really cracked so far. I mean, I hardly see anybody using Facebook or other social networks really talking about trading and the stock market. I mean, the people who are already deep into this world, I mean, it…”
Mobile UX, not social features, drives millennial trading adoption
“I think it's really more about the user experience, the accessibility the easy to use the app based smartphone oriented approach. So it's just more convenient to join the game. I mean, with Robin Hood, for example, it's just a smooth and convenient process. Yo…”
Orange Growth Capital sees over 30 new fintech startups every week
“Today, I think we see more than 30 companies, new companies a week in this field.”
Global fintech investments tripled between 2013 and 2014
“The general investments in fintech just tripled from 2000 13 to 14.”
Europe had only about 30 relevant fintech companies in 2010
“In 2010 when I was partner at Next Generation Finance Invest we yeah, looked at Europe, and we had I would say around 30 companies we would have defined as finance two point oh, or fintech, how you call it.”
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