Author: Vladislav Solodkiy

There are so many innovation labs and too few innovations. I regularly meet with bankers worldwide and the first phrase I hear (especially in Asia) from those who decided to invest in fintech (there are few of them so far, and we should be grateful to them) is, “We want to invest only in those startups that will be synergic with our current business.” In other words, “we want to invest only in those alternative energy sectors that would keep oil prices high and our oil business profitable.” Ok. There is a huge difference between Simple mobile bank and even…