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Some fintech corporations are weathering the storm higher than others and seeing an finish in sight. Particularly, startups utilizing AI to battle cash laundering and fraud appear to be having fun with tailwinds.— Anna
Consolidation forward
If you’re a freelancer in Europe, you may have most likely heard of Qonto, a challenger financial institution for particular person and small companies that now boasts of 400,000 clients in France, Italy, Spain and Germany.
I had a name with CEO Alexandre Prot earlier this week, and he used a metaphor I discovered fairly telling to explain the present state of fintech in Europe: a rainbow in a storm. “There are individuals who see the rainbow, after which there are individuals who nonetheless see the storm,” he mentioned.
