When flight disruptions occur, getting compensation and care payments to passengers is a challenge for airlines and travellers alike. With many airlines operating on manual, legacy systems, verification and payouts are time-consuming. Passengers can wait months to receive owed payments – a frustrating experience for all. Swiipr’s integrated platform bridges a gap for airlines, automating verification and disbursement of payments….

New tech solutions have only offered a “single-player” approach to wealth generation. This means that they provide limited support for both a collaborative approach to savings and investment that a family takes as well as the evolution of a family’s needs over time.

Nosso’s goal is to make investing in a child’s future the whole family’s affair, thereby offering a tech-driven collaborative approach to savings and investments for the modern family.

The way we access our smartphones is broken. Customers are expected to spend upwards of £1,000 to purchase a new device where monthly installment options are limited to expensive bundled network contracts or unbundled device finance that only prime customers can access. And when the devices are upgraded after two to three years, most end up tucked in a drawer or thrown out, creating unnecessary environmental damage, and providing no residual value to the customer….

The recent pandemic has undoubtedly transformed how companies work, and distributed, remote working is here to stay. How does this new reality influence the crucial decision many venture-backed companies have to make: whether, when, and how to expand to the US?

This post articulates my thoughts in 2019 on the state of European challenger banks, their attempts to expand to the US, and the challenges they stand to face.

In Part 1, I outlined the challenges facing the Challenger Banks aiming to expand to the US. Here in Part 2, I’ll take a closer look at their prospects.