- Make a screening of existing fintechs in your region using google and map out which kind of banks they are focusing on.
- Estimate the areas that are currently underserved in your region (in other words, where the opportunities are)
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My country is Italy. I just found an article on the main italian agency news ANSA (see here the link https://www.ansa.it/osservatorio_intelligenza_artificiale/notizie/societa/2020/09/17/fintech-il-censimento-di-ey-fenomeno-arriva-in-italia_4e18ba9d-e41b-4210-b5d1-f3b917724b81.html) where is reported the following interesting survey:
Total fintech companies in Italy: 345
of these we find:
71 on crowfunding (borrowing)
35 on analysis data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (basically investments)
34 on smart payments
30 on lending services
based on this analysis and comparing the list of the six financial activities in the course I can say that in Italy at the moment the best fintech opportunities are on savings and insurance, where clearly there are not so many companies to be considered as a separated category from the article writer.
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Top 50 Fintech in US
Brex B2B Lending $315 M San Francisco, California
Kabbage B2B Lending $489 M Atlanta, Georgia
Betterment Investing $275 M New York, New York
iCapital Network Investing $80 M New York, New York
Kindur Investing $11 M New York, New York
Stash Investing $192 M New York, New York
Ethos Insurance $107 M San Francisco, California
Hippo Insurance Insurance $209 M Palo Alto, California
Insurify Insurance $30 M Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lemonade Insurance $480 M New York, New York
Next Insurance Insurance $381 M Palo Alto, California
Root Insurance Insurance $528 M Columbus, Ohio
Fattmerchant Payments $18 M Orlando, Florida
Finix Payments $55 M San Francisco, California
Marqeta Payments $378 M Oakland, California
Payoneer Payments $270 M New York, New York
Plaid Payments $310 M San Francisco, California
Plastiq Payments $140 M San Francisco, California
Stripe Payments $1000 M San Francisco, California
Toast Payments $498 M Boston, Massachusetts
TransferWise Payments $689 M London, United Kingdom
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This is a good idea lots of interesting companies.
- Insure
Goose is a travel insurance company
Breathe is a B2B software solution for insurance companies.
Nuera Highly tech focused insurance broker focused on easy of use.
Nexus Mutual insure smart contracts
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Lend
Crypto.com Lend with weekly payments, not insured
BlockFi Lend with monthly payments, not insured
Nexo Lend with daily payments, insured
Ledn Not insured -
Save
Mylo Automatic saving and investing platform -
Borrow
Borrowell allows borrowing of money from various lenders.
fundthrough borrow money against invoices -
Invest
Mylo Automatic saving and investing platform -
Pay
Instant get paid after every shift
Paybright consumer goods in payments biweekly or monthly
There is still some opportunities in bridging Crypto and Traditional finance. Though many on/off ramps have emerged in the last year. As they are small opportunity I have found is helping people find these few new emerging companies. Most of these companies happily pay from you to provide them users.
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Well, blown away!
Forget what I wrote in the previous assignment, there is a HUGE israeli fintech companies, only that most of them have gone global:
- eToro
- Lemonade
- Payoneer
to name a few.
Check out this:
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Switzerland, being a financial oasis has an incredible amount of Fintech companies.
https://fintechmap.ch/map/
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Hi @Gustaf Hård af Segerstad
Can you please let me know why this answer is wrong in the assessment? In the presentation you state that Retail has high amount of customer but do not earn much per customer. Thanks 
On average, what is most true about retail banks
Your Answer
check_box They have many customers and do not earn much per customer
Correct Answer
check_box They earn very little per customer
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That’s a really good page you posted thanx. I recommend it. The Swiss know how to do this stuff.
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Australia has over 800 companies in the fintech space. Grew from a 250 million industry in 2015 to a 4billion industry in 2020.
No1 in the world for contactless payment.
Australia boasts the 4th largest pool of managed funds in the world
2nd highest penetration of smartphones in the world.
Ventre of creating world blockchain standards.
Fintech regulatory sandbox leads the world.
https://www.fintechaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/FinTech-Ecosystem-Map-medium-res.jpg
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Japan seems to have a well balanced Fintech companies. Everyone is well connect to Internet so easily accessible but I don’t know statistics about adoptability and usability of the services.
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The Fintech market in Germany has many companies participating, some banks like Fidor and Bitwala war well established in the banking sector. The problem here is that a vast majority of people (also young people) prefer the traditional banking system with local saving banks. It’s a huge potential market, but any company in the sector has to face the traditional scepticism of Germans against everything that is online. Once this can be overcome there is a huge potential in ALL Fintech areas to be exploited. Possibly a way to overcome the scepticism is providing easy working apps and an excellent 24/7 phone backed customer service with personal help and no or little waiting holds.
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Canadian market is underserved in rural markets
Three cities are currently driving the fintech market Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver.
Opportunities arise in payment services where merchants consistently complain about high transaction costs
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After screening existing fintechs in my region and connecting the information with the previous assignment, I believe that Poland lacks quality fintechs in many areas, especially Lending, Saving, and Investing.
Previous Assignment:
This is the document explaining in detail Polish fintech industry. (Unfortunately, it’s in Polish.)
https://www.cashless.pl/system/uploads/ckeditor/attachments/2258/mpf2020b.pdf
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I found a website and a database of 204 Finnish fintechs. That’s too many to look into. I made a selection of six companies between A and F in the alphabet and I noticed that according to my understanding investment banking could be an area which is underserved. Or those kinds of services can better be provided by bigger regional and global players so there are no opportunities if you aim only at the Finnish market.
Airpay Digital https://www.airpaydigital.fi/ In corporate card payments - retail or commercial banks
Basware - https://www.basware.com/ payments services - retail or commercial banks
Clento https://www.clento.fi/ KYC solution - for all banks except central banks and perhaps investment banks (that have mainly institutional customers as far as I know)
Detech https://www.detech.fi/
Asset and liability management (ALM) - probably all forms of banks except Central banks and perhaps investment banks
eKeiretsu http://www.ekeiretsu.fi/
not in banking but in logistics, health, municipalities and insurance
FA solutions https://fasolutions.com/
wealth management - applicable for most kinds of banks except Central banks and perhaps investment banks.
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Not easy to get an overview. There are a lot of companies here in Germany, too. I found this lists: https://big-picture.com/fintechs-germany.php or https://fintech-consult.com/germany.
Hi @CryptoMel,
Thank you for the catch.
We have adjusted the question and answers. It should be correct now. 
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Thank you for screening different fintechs in your region.
@spongetti, @Rick.Everitt, @Lucky_Mkosana
Could also expand on what areas you feel may be underserved in your region?
