Quipo Blog

Quipo believes in sharing knowledge and experience. Our articles are freely available to everyone who works in the FinTech industry. We also organise workshops with our blog writers and social media marketeer to encourage consultants to participate, and promote themselves in the process.

Are Corporate and Investment banks to be replaced by tech-only financial companies?

There are many examples of bankers moving into different directions at the moment. Is banking over? Bruno Poggi, Senior Banker with 25 years experience in the industry and newly appointed Non-Executive Director at Quipo is not totally convinced... yet.

Bruno Poggi 18/10/2019

Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Market Trends

Why Artificial Intelligence? The FinTech industry is rapidly evolving and reshaping commerce, trading, insurance and risk management by automating and speeding up decision-making. How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) play a part in this process? There are many applications for AI in finance, including fraud detection, virtual financial assistants, chat- bots, and forecasting the financial market’s response to news and social media. This is reflected in the huge market value that has accrued since the AI race began back in 2010. Although things only really heated up in 2017, and its yearly growth has remained at a healthy 50%.

Marius Mindroc 05/09/2018

So you're looking for a job at Google...

There are few industries that, after being at the centre of two major economic crises and skipping a technological revolution, are not only still in business but have remained almost entirely unchanged. The resilience of the financial industry, despite the dot-com crash of 2000 and the 2008 credit crunch, not to mention the emergence and domination of giant technological companies equivalent to several Skynets, is quite remarkable.

Jean-Fabrice 19/07/2018

What is Recruitment?

In this article I rethink recruitment and get to the heart of what the ultimate goal of a recruiter should be. I scrutinise the changes that have taken place in the profession over the last few years, and question whether it is in a state of evolution or regression.

Anastasiia Vypyrailo 16/07/2018

What is IR35?

This article provides a useful overview of the tax legislation known as IR35: what it is, what it means to you as a contractor or client, and what action you should take to avoid heavy financial penalties. By the end you should have a clear understanding of your rights and responsibilities, but should you need it further advice is available from The Contract Doctor at hp@quipo.co