Or why you should avoid customizations in IT projects As you may or may not know, I have been working in fintech for some time now and the experience has been interesting to say the least. I have learnt a trick or two on the way, nothing too disruptive, but still, interesting ideas, concepts or... Continue Reading →
You ought to be careful when combining absolutes with words like true, false and not. The mixture is trickier than you might think. Here's a brain teaser to illustrate my point. "There is no absolute truth" You might have heard this statement before, and you might even hold it to be true at face value.... Continue Reading →
Or how it looks from the inside. Every experience is unique and different people can have different accounts on a career in FinTech. Here's mine. I got in FinTech by chance. I received a call I was not expecting. Until that moment, finance did not ring a bell. Trading floors seemed like movie stuff. The... Continue Reading →
Or why it is not a question of yes or no but rather when. Universal income, as in income for all regardless of employment status or activity, has been a recurrent idea in recent years. In France, Benoit Hamon, the Socialist Party candidate for the 2016 elections based his electoral program on the idea of... Continue Reading →
Or why is perfection twofold. Photo by Antony DaRosa The mechanical watch industry was thriving in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century. Watchmakers would put time and effort in producing timepieces of the utmost precision, called chronometers, leveraging on more than 200 years of trial and error, dating back to the first tentative... Continue Reading →
Or how to explain what you do as a fintech professional to people who have no clue about technology and/or financial institutions, without quoting The Wolf of Wall Street. Photo by Timisu The average tentative involves you saying that you work in fintech (that's financial technology) and having then to explain that your clients are mostly... Continue Reading →
The Idea Sounding Board 