Navigating the World of Finance: Banks, Investments, and More
It’s surprising how many people want to invest without fully understanding how banks, brokers, stock exchange, fintechs works. Let’s break down some key concepts:
Category Archives: Fintech
AI take on: Top 10 reasons why IT sucks in Europe
In my previous post https://blog.voina.org/gold-reddit-comments-top-10-reasons-why-it-sucks-in-europe/ I already presented the best Reddit post about the hot topic of EU lagging behind in innovation and technology due to red tape and over-regulation. Just for fun I asked the new AI model from Nvidia, the open sourced “nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF”, what is its opinion about the topic. The result top… Read More »
Gold Reddit Comments: Top 10 reasons why IT sucks in Europe
Lately a hot topic in EU was raised by some politicians like Mario Draghi and president Macron of France about the lack of competitiveness of the European economy. Mario Draghi in EU competitiveness: Looking ahead is criticizing EU as being over regulated and against innovation and free initiative. Macron was even more direct: “The EU… Read More »
This is how I want my metal card. Any #fintech that will make this pocket tool/ card fusion will be the #banking choise for any Engineer.
My notes from #Sibos2021 #banking #fintech
This year, SIBOS was held yet again as an online conference in October. This is in fact a good thing because more people can participate and you are not stuck at your company booth :), so in fact you can attend all the interesting topics. So here are my notes of things that caught my… Read More »
Filter #XML Documents using #XPATH2 Transforms for signature digests #banking #fintech
While working with XML Documents and trying to implement the XMLSignature I hit the issue of filtering what to sign from an XML. The basic documentation of the from XML signature standard XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1 describes several methods that can be used to transform an XML to prepare it for signing.… Read More »
Two e-mails that changed the world #linux #bitcoin #future
Sometimes world changing grandiose events have very humble beginnings and can be seen at their time as something of not importance. I love how Internet is able to “record” this birthday of world changing cascading events with simplicity and ease. This was never the case in history. We read in history books only post factum… Read More »
#Bitcoin #LightningLabs white paper and my financial advices #Bitstamp #Muun
This is my small contribution to the decentralized finance. Bitcoin is a future store of value. Bitcoin is not a traditional currency. Lightning Labs is a breath of fresh air for Bitcoin as a medium for exchange of value. I am a Bitstamp customer. Muun wallet very clean UX, simple, supports lightning protocol and interesting… Read More »
Learn #banking, #fintech and #payments jargon: Money
Money Definition: Money is any object that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given context. Details: The main functions of money are distinguished as: a medium of exchange; a unit of account; a store of value; and, occasionally, a standard of deferred payment. Money evolved over… Read More »
#fintech #security Implement a simple #SCA algorithm for your #B2B #API implementation.
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is a new European regulatory requirement as part of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) for authenticating online payments and make them more secure. There are some actions such as funding a transfer from your balance or viewing the statement that require SCA within the UK and EEA. SCA builds additional… Read More »