Hilary Benn's rousing speech in favour of Syrian airstrikes

A standing ovation for Hilary Benn

This month's edition of INV Unfiltered features fintech expert Chris Skinner, who is speaking about the global impact of Chinese digital payment companies like Alipay.

Chris Skinner on Ant Financial and the Global Payments Landscape

Payment platform Dwolla's head of strategic projects, Jordan Lampe, talks about realtime payments in this episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast. Lampe explains how banks can use this transactional data to tailor exiting products and services, but also create new ones based on the realtime information exchange taking place during the transaction.

Fintech Unfiltered: Dwolla's Jordan Lampe on Monetizing Realtime Payments

The key benefit of using programming language Scala to build a digital platform is a feature called Type Safety, which allows for better and faster testing because it allows detecting "errors while writing the code," before running it, according to Jason Brown, CEO and co-founder of fintech Tally.

In this latest episode of Fintech Unfiltered podcast, Brown explained that Scala is an important, but underrated, layer to develop a cloud-based platform for financial services because of its ability to allow for "faster and better," testing, efficient code compiling and scalability.
This "modern programming language," is designed to work within the Java script ecosystem, and although it is not meant to replace Java, it can enhance many features of programming and coding including accuracy and testing, he said.

Listen to he full podcast here.

Why Use Scala Script to Build a Digital Platform

The new podcast covering current trends and intriguing topics in fintech and beyond courtesy of Bank Innovation, the fintech blog, and INV Fintech, a leading fintech accelerator.