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GreenInvest G20 Meeting and Green Digital Finance
Continuing our supporting partnership with UNEP and the Green Digital Finance Alliance, the Stockholm Green Digital Finance centre and hiveonline were invited to Berlin to advise the G20 policymakers and representatives of the V20 countries – 46 countries made particularly vulnerable by climate change – on how fintech could help them. The 30-31 May G20…
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hiveonline at the G7 in Venice
hiveonline is proud to have been asked to support the UN Environment Programme Inquiry into Design of a Sustainable Financial System, recently accompanying them to the G7 Green Finance for SME policy making meeting in Venice. Six of the G7 governments (all except USA) were represented, with a combination of Environment and Financial departments sending…
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March Newsletter
Building Bridges Following the Nordic tradition, the Bee has two homes and we attended the launch of the Stockholm Fintech Hub, hosted by KPMG, where the room was packed to capacity and 180 people had to be turned away! The hub itself, based at the No. 18 shared working space in Stockholm’s Central Station, opened…
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Building Capabilities
If you’ve been following our series, you’ll know that we believe that whether you’re restructuring an existing business or building a new one, the base unit of building a service aligned business is a capability. We’ve explored elsewhere the different types of capabilities (Case Managed and Core Standardised), how to structure services and the practicalities…
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Microfinance, fractional ownership and crowdfunding
We’ve described service alignment, ecosystems and how these impact trust in previous articles. In this article we explore the impact of technology on community financing, and in particular how technology can support disintermediation of financial services and serve to empower communities in taking back control of their financial arrangements. This is an opportunity for developing…
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Career as microservices – reputation based skills validation
In other articles we’ve covered reputation systems, truth, identity and authentication, and how hiveonline’s truth-based contextualised reputation system will address this. We’ve also observed a number of applications of similar approaches in fields as diverse as medicine, trade finance and community agriculture in developing economies. We’re confident these reputation systems will become commonplace, and then…
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Plebocracy bias
Plebocracy bias: Post-truth. Information bubbles. Echo chamber. Confirmation bias. We’ve all heard a lot about these phenomena recently, but they’re not new. Opinion, regardless on whether it’s founded on fact, has always influenced apparently impartial decision makers, often unfairly disadvantaging individuals and organisations. In New definitions of identity and authentication for trust-based ecosystems, we explored…
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Building bridges not walls: the Nordic Fintech Hubs
I was excited to represent the Stockholm Fintech Hub at the panel discussion on Nordic Fintech Hub co-operation at this week’s Oslo Fintech Fest. As a recent entrant on the Nordic Fintech scene and a relatively recent immigrant to the Nordics, I’ve been privileged to witness both the common and unique strengths of the Nordic…
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New definitions of identity and authentication for trust-based ecosystems
This article is part of our randomised, post-structural Let’s Build a Bank series of articles. In this article, we explore concepts of customer authentication and identity, arguing that in the ecosystem economy we need to take a fresh look at what we mean by a customer, break the traditional human-based paradigm and start adopting more community-based…
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Partners, competitors and positioning in the connected economy
This article is part of our randomised, post-structural Let’s Build a Bank series of articles. The rules of competitor analysis are changing as the economy moves from ego- to ecosystem. As customers increasingly own their own data, they also own and control the reputation of organisations, and applying the customer lens to our own and…