Modern financial institutions should pay attention to multiple factors influencing user churn and conversions. One of them is automated merchant onboarding, which builds trust between a banking institution and a seller. It simplifies the whole process, making first steps of cooperation faster and smoother. The problem is that banks and FinTechs lose deals related to dissatisfying journey.
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Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD), deployment, automation and best practices spawned from the DevOps rulebook. They make the process of building, testing and releasing software more efficient and get working software into the hands of users more quickly than traditional methods. Implemented right, a CI/CD pipeline enables teams to deliver working software at pace and get timely feedback on their latest changes. Here’s the best CI/CD practices for your efficient software development project.
Read moreContinuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) is a method of frequent delivery of software to customers introducing and perfecting automation within the app development process. CircleCI is a CI tool. Developers use it to build, test, and deploy projects. This article dives into the software and its capabilities.
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Bug reporting is a skill that everyone in the software development team should have. It helps to build the application while making the process shorter, more efficient and cheaper as a result. Dedicated quality assurance (QA) team is a must but there are ways to teach developers and other specialists the art of bug reporting. How to make a good bug report?
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In the past, developers presented their products to the user in the “my way or the highway” model. Users got the application and that was it. No feedback, no updates, no nothing. Technical aspects of the industry, as well as legacy infrastructure, prevented applications to be continuously supported. Today everything has changed. User experience (UX) is better because tech allows it. More importantly, because attitude has changed. UX is a vital process of the software development process. How can you leverage it in your product?
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Blockchain in banking. Sounds like an oxymoron, right? A self-contradicting pair of words. On one hand, a disruptive trend and technology. On the other hand, an industry with legacy software and processes that limit the capacity to compete with agile newcomers. The market disagrees and shows us it can be done. Blockchain in the banking sector is a fact. What does it look like?
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FinTech is rapidly changing. New developments and market needs spawn every year and apps’ holders have to adjust. These 12 tips for FinTech app development will help you enhance your product.
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Software development is changing. There are many factors, and one of the most interesting ones is backend frameworks. Best backend frameworks help build especially online solutions, which are increasingly popular among consumers due to subscription models or web variants of mobile applications. Which backend framework is most popular and how you can utilize them in your work?
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AWS frontend services and AWS backend solutions are extremely popular among businesses from any given industry. They are reliable, fast, and available for companies of all sizes and budgets. In this article, we will dive into some core components of a vast AWS ecosystem. You will see how to put the backend on AWS.
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Mobile development has been a must for many years now. Especially in FinTech, which is based almost entirely on mobility and easy access. What does native vs cross-platform mean? What is the nature of a native vs hybrid mobile app development? Finally, what is the best framework for app development in 2022 and beyond?
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The old ways of creating software don’t match the reality we live in. Users want even more convenience in use and even more value for their money. To meet these expectations, companies use API-first design pattern. It enhances the application’s features and provides companies with a modular and reusable design that’s perfect for creating entire ecosystems. The approach also reduces development costs, optimizes delivery and operations.
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If you wonder how to choose a tech stack among most popular tech stacks of 2022, then this article is for you. They key to creation of a performing application is to find a set of technologies that will provide the best return on investment in line with functional requirements. The perfect stack in 2022 doesn’t exist. It’s about your vision, and needs.
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“Open banking standards” is a term used for technologies and regulations used to provide third-party service providers consumer’s banking data. This data can be used in many ways. To provide and keep operational things like web and mobile apps, financial services, and more. To make it all possible, governments issued open banking standards and open banking directives. Since compliance, along with security, is the most vital part of FinTech business, we provide you with a brief list of open banking regulations and application programming interfaces (APIs) standards to watch out for in the upcoming months and years.
Read moreCode refactoring is basically the process of restructuring an application’s code without changing it. It also doesn’t add up to its behavior and functionality. Its purpose is to make the code more efficient and easily maintainable. How can you refactor the code, what are the detailed benefits, and how can you go about it? Here’s the list of everything you need to know, including best practices.
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Why use blockchain? The answer, contrary to appearances, is no – you don’t necessarily need it. Not every business is better for it. There are clear benefits coming from implementation but applying this technology doesn’t make your company more relevant. It just generates unnecessary costs. However, some products do benefit and here are 7 reasons why blockchain is important in today’s FinTech market.
Read moreWith multiple developments in the industry, it’s hard to know which trends to follow. What investments to make to assure your company is future-proof? What technologies are making the headlines? What should you be paying attention to, to stay ahead of the competition? With this map of app development trends, you will know what’s around the corner.
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Security in digital products, not only in FinTech but in applications in general, is a top priority. Software development clients want to make sure that user data and business logic are safe from attacks. Users want to securely invest in applications through loyalty. Security in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an interesting topic to view the security issue from three perspectives – the user’s, customer’s and developer’s. Let’s talk about AWS security issues and how to think about them.
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Analytics on Amazon are inextricably linked to AWS Big Data. With the huge amount of information traveling through digital products every single second, you need a reliable set of tools to properly implement analytics on AWS. Luckily, we know how to do that and will tell you in this article.
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Microservices fundamentally changed the way applications are built, managed, and supported after launch. Even more – they had changed the way engineers and managers think about digital products in the first place. With big scalability and potential for quick growth, many managers ask how to build microservices. Here is the world of microservices, best practices, and everything in between.
Read moreContrary to a popular belief, microservices are not a panacea. If something is good for everything, it’s good for nothing. Many managers compare microservices vs monolithic architecture and want to know which is best for the current company’s project. Microservices are a fantastic way to make the digital product agile, and scalable. Monolith is good when you just want something to be done.
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Many companies use microservices for their daily operations. Multiple advantages lie in that technology; we have listed them before. Today we will focus on companies using microservices architecture for their operational and financial gain.
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Hacking startup companies and businesses can be easy. This ease all depends on their software security. For some of them, though, security is not considered a priority. This is how hackers bypass their security without so much sweat and get into their servers.
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What are microservices? They are loosely bound, light services and protocols that can build your application. Highly specialized in nature, they tackle specific topics and handle challenges in a very agile way. Through this specialization, your application can perform better. What exactly is microservices architecture and what are the advantages of microservices?
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Both approaches have their benefits but none of them fits all. The more probable occurrence of a serious disruption for your business, the shorter recovery time you should have in place. The point for serverless is to boost your infrastructure architecture. There are other benefits, especially for small and medium-sized companies. Let’s go through them all.
Read moreWhether somebody likes it or not, cloud services providers and what they offer has changed the landscape of FinTech completely in recent years. At Code & Pepper we know it and we work with some of their products daily to make products for our clients. But which companies are the most popular and why? Let’s find out today!
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