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This is the Spanish Fintech: The loans and payments are the queens

The ‘fintech’ ecosystem gains strength. In the last year, the number of this type of companies in Spain has increased by 15%, from 292 to 337 startups that develop technological solutions related to the financial sector. These data, collected in the X-Tech-Report-Spain-2019 Report prepared by the consulting firm Finnovating, reveal…

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Is the Internet manipulating users?

Tristan Harris, an engineer who has worked at Apple and Google, where he was a specialist in matters of ethics and “human persuasion”, has founded Center for Humane Technology, an NGO whose objective is “to reverse human disorder” (human downgrading) and “return to align technology with humanity”. The word of…

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Technologies such as Facebook’s Libra will be especially “painful” for traditional banking

The payments directive will reinforce the digital alternatives: “Too many European banks believe that their business model is solid”, they warn. Digital initiatives such as the recently launched Pora virtual currency, promoted by Facebook and a network of 27 other partners (including Uber, Spotify and eBay), have once again placed…

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