Business always need new solutions. Digital finance and fintech are to challenge old finance services. It offer better efficiency, transparency and more equal opportunities. It is also linked to the revolution of social networks and web 2.0 services. People can take power and make their decisions, small players can challenge the big organizations.

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4. Once upon a time we were atomized but
connected up to large organizations and big
media – today that power is eroding…

6. Asymmetric Power
The most powerful organizations of the world
versus small groups with $100 equipment

7. LocalGlobalCommunities

8. Disruption
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9. The Network Society: Networks
cause a comprehensive
restructuring of society at
large, they are breaking old
models of organization.

10. WE HAVE A DREAM:
more equal opportunities,
where people
innovations and capital
unite globally

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12. Read & write, participatory, conversational:
markets are conversations, marketing is a
conversation, business is a social science!
A new language:

13. Co-creation + networked
economics + communities of
interest can be and are,
proven & powerful platforms
and processes to stimulate
innovation and commerce

14. Trust Economy

16. Velocity
Lightweight
Flexible
Adaptive
Enabling platforms

17. Open
Open platforms
Open API’s
Open data
Open legal frameworks
Truly global

18. A
cultural
challenge
…for corporates
…for governments
…for human beings

19. To resist will
lead to
financial and
organizational
exhaustion

20. Live in an open and networked ecosystem
Issuers Investors
Investor Side
Platforms or
Services
Digital Market
Places
Issuer Side
Platforms or
Services
Data, Research & Services
Back Office Services
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22. Is it anarchy?
No idea, but it is to:
creating changes, not reacting,
being digital, not using IT,
adapting to new markets,
listening to people,
constantly changing.

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