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Choosing the right tools

Developing a modern FinTech backend: the pros and cons of popular approaches

Fintech | Product Development | By Roman Shandurenko | November 10, 2020November 17, 2020

FinTech is an industry oriented towards developing novel financial applications and solutions to traditional ways of dealing with finance. But building a FinTech application is no easy feat. Today’s financial market is a true digital...

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

10 UX Monsters that designers fear, and how to overcome them.

Product Development | By Maria Vous | October 20, 2020October 20, 2020

Everyone’s afraid of something—even designers. To pay tribute to Halloween this month, I spoke with different app, web, and service designers about things that give them the creeps and asked them what they do to...

Everything you need to know

How to do remote user testing during COVID-19

Product Development | By Maria Vous | October 6, 2020October 9, 2020

Designing great products was hard enough before the Covid-19 crisis hit, with a market oversaturated by competition for limited resources. In a post-pandemic world preparing to face the virus’ second wave, success will be a...

Innovation, growth, responsibility.

Three principles that guide our software development team.

HR | By Indrek Ulst | September 21, 2020September 22, 2020

Software development can be one of the most rewarding lines of work out there. It can also be one of the hardest, most stressful, or even most boring. It all depends on what your employer’s...

Work, reimagined

Remote work: it’s about the mindset, not the tools.

HR | By Anu Einberg | September 9, 2020September 9, 2020

This Spring, Covid-19 forced many companies across the world to start working remotely. The need for social distancing and the health risks associated with having large groups under one roof meant that office work as...

It’s all about startups

Our thoughts from Latitude59

Other | By Maria Vous | September 3, 2020September 3, 2020

Latitude59 is the flagship startup and tech event in Estonia, the world’s first digital society. Demos.Pitches. Matchmaking. Parties. It’s the place to be for people who are serious about startups, investing, and the future of...

Trust, innovation, or both?

Trends and outlook for the post-COVID FinTech scene

Fintech | By Greta Pudan | August 25, 2020August 25, 2020

Players in the FinTech scene tend to fit into one of two groups. On the one hand, there are challenger banks like Monese, N26, and Revolut, who focus on mass markets and reaching large numbers...

Trust, balance, vision.

3 best practices for building FinTech products

Fintech | By Greta Pudan | July 14, 2020August 25, 2020

If you’re thinking about building a FinTech product, you probably know that it’s going to be an uphill battle. The financial services industry is one of the most highly regulated—and competitive—in the world. There are...

Quality starts here

What is an RFP and how do you get one right?

Product Development | By Hanna-Mari Kirs | July 1, 2020August 12, 2020

When corporations or public institutions are preparing large-scale development projects, one common way of finding partners is to put out an RFP, or request for proposal. The idea is to ask potential vendors to submit...

challenges and lessons learned

Building a global hackathon from the ground up – The Global Hack organizers’ notes

Other | By Priit Salumaa | May 20, 2020August 12, 2020

I was looking down the empty toilet paper aisle in my local supermarket at 10am when I received two consecutive phone calls from my friends Calum and Kai (Accelerate Estonia & Garage48), asking if I...

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