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PSD2 and Open Banking Bring About New Security Threats

PSD2 and Open Banking Bring About New Security Threats

In September 2019, an updated European Union (EU) regulation, namely the Revised Payment Service Directive, and a global Open Banking API standard …

Five Steps to Legacy IT Modernization in Banking & Financial Institutions

Five Steps to Legacy IT Modernization in Banking & Financial Institutions

Nearly all services and products provided by financial institutions are technology-based, while the introduction of Open Banking and PSD2 regulations, …

Product Owner Talks: Toolset To Boost Your Product Owner’s Productivity

Product Owner Talks: Toolset To Boost Your Product Owner’s Productivity

A product owner is one of the essential roles for the product development team, especially when we speak about digital products. The software …

The Biggest Problems of Loyalty Programs

The Biggest Problems of Loyalty Programs

The digital loyalty program has become an essential part of the digital ecosystem of modern brands. A brand’s loyal audience regularly uses its …

Iron Triangle for Outsourcing Companies

Iron Triangle for Outsourcing Companies

Partnership with IT outsourcing companies is an internationally recognized approach for efficient software product development. Experienced vendors …

Product owner talks: Beacons technology in use

Product owner talks: Beacons technology in use

Every day we stuck in our phones for hours reading, playing, surfing on the Internet, and working in different mobile applications. Brands figured …

Dashdevs Fintech Autumn 2019: NOAH Conference, FinTECHTalents, and Project Imagine Debut

Dashdevs Fintech Autumn 2019: NOAH Conference, FinTECHTalents, and Project Imagine Debut

The whole 2019 year was very dynamic and fascinating for the DashDevs team, and this autumn was no exception. In October and November, our CEO, Igor …

Questions you should ask while developing a software product

Questions you should ask while developing a software product

Even from the first days of our life, we are curious about the world around us. Within the first couple of years, we begin asking tons of questions …

Product owner talks: Defining the Iron Triangle for a Project

Product owner talks: Defining the Iron Triangle for a Project

A fortified digital ecosystem is one of the most valuable competitive advantages that a business can have. Information technologies are moving brands …

Data Science in the Fintech Industry

Data Science in the Fintech Industry

Data Science has turned into a hype technology in the modern world and has created much buzz in all industries. It combines statistics, mathematics, …

Fintech Trends to Dominate in 2020 and Beyond

Fintech Trends to Dominate in 2020 and Beyond

The pace of change in the banking and financial services (FS) field has never been faster, and fintech is at the epicenter of this reinvention. In the …

Product Owner Talks: The Introduction to Product Management Team

Product Owner Talks: The Introduction to Product Management Team

The digitalization of businesses is moving fast. Companies are creating more and more applications for their end-users and internal needs. AI-powered …

Product Owner Talks: 20 Digital Twins Solution Providers

Product Owner Talks: 20 Digital Twins Solution Providers

What is the most valuable commodity we have in today’s modern world? The answer is time. We strive to spend less time on unnecessary actions, …

Dozens Story: Becoming a Top Fintech App in One Year

Dozens Story: Becoming a Top Fintech App in One Year

A year has passed since the release of Dozens app to the stores. Now, this fintech application has over 20k of real registered users who are the …

Stop Wasting Your Designers Time

Stop Wasting Your Designers Time

Product design is the combination of the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) empowered by product vision, marketing strategy, and customer …

How to Choose a Technology Stack for Mobile App Development

How to Choose a Technology Stack for Mobile App Development

Which programming language should we choose? How should we store our data? What’s the most advantageous technology stack for mobile …

Product Owner Talks: Digital Twin and the Digital Thread

Product Owner Talks: Digital Twin and the Digital Thread

The company productivity enhancement process starts with an overview of the product and its processes from a bird’s eye view. External business …

Product Owner Talks: Top Five Trends in Digital Product Development

Product Owner Talks: Top Five Trends in Digital Product Development

The total digitalization of everyday activity is changing our perception of the world. Today people can hardly imagine their lives without smartphones …

Four Best App Monetization Strategies for Fintech Firms

Four Best App Monetization Strategies for Fintech Firms

The world becomes more user-friendly with the digitization of financial processes, integration of AI technologies, smarter use of data analytics, and …

The Ultimate Guide to In-App Purchase in iOS Application Development: Part 3

The Ultimate Guide to In-App Purchase in iOS Application Development: Part 3

This is the final article in our series dedicated to the implementation of in-app purchase (IAP) functionality in iOS applications. In our first part, …

Product owner talks: Opening an API

Product owner talks: Opening an API

The process of mobile and web application development becomes more fluent with every passing year. The most significant changes and the most exciting …

How Consulting Services Help FinTechs Save Money and Drive Innovation

How Consulting Services Help FinTechs Save Money and Drive Innovation

Let’s suppose that you are a bank executive and you are contending with a multifunctional, low-priced, digital bank with global presence: people …

The Ultimate Guide to In-App Purchase in iOS Application Development: Part 2

The Ultimate Guide to In-App Purchase in iOS Application Development: Part 2

According to Statista prediction, mobile apps will generate 188.9 billion U.S. dollars in revenues via app stores and in-app advertising in 2020. …

Project Cost Estimation: The Ultimate Guide For Stakeholders With The Dashdevs Approach

Project Cost Estimation: The Ultimate Guide For Stakeholders With The Dashdevs Approach

To be commercially viable in the current climate, in any industry, companies are getting through the unprecedented change triggered by such factors as …

The Ultimate Guide to In-App Purchase in iOS Application Development: Part 1

The Ultimate Guide to In-App Purchase in iOS Application Development: Part 1

Mobile app development for business usually aims to create one more channel to serve clients and sell products and services, both physical and …

Product Owner Talks: Basic Security Checklist

Product Owner Talks: Basic Security Checklist

Today I’m going to review a bit of an untypical subject for a product owner – cybersecurity. I think that this topic is really important for product …

Welcome AI: 7 Ways How Chatbots Make Your FinTech App Better

Welcome AI: 7 Ways How Chatbots Make Your FinTech App Better

The financial services and banking industry is actively adopting conversation. Today we are surrounded by gadgets and applications that listen, …

Kotlin vs Java: What Software Engineers Choose for Android Development

Kotlin vs Java: What Software Engineers Choose for Android Development

On May 2019, Google announced Kotlin a preferred language for Android development. Every industry has a topic to “holy-war” about. Competition between …

Apple Special Event September 2019

Apple Special Event September 2019

We are continually tacking on the wave of technological trends in the mobile and web development industry. It is essential for us as we strive to …

Swapping Horses in Midstream of Delivery App Development Process

Swapping Horses in Midstream of Delivery App Development Process

Starting the development of a standard app, you usually do not expect you would face challenges, questions, improvements, updates, or unpredicted …

What Designers Need to Know About Server Side When Creating Mobile Apps

What Designers Need to Know About Server Side When Creating Mobile Apps

I have thousands of applications on my devices. I’m an active user of iPhone and Samsung at the same time. If smartphone addiction comes to your …

The Future of Banking and Financial Services Now Depends on PSD2 and Open Banking API

The Future of Banking and Financial Services Now Depends on PSD2 and Open Banking API

Digital is redefining the future of banking and financial services in a myriad of ways. While for most incumbents, that means embracing an entirely …

FitGrid — Balanced Fitness App Solution for All Parties

FitGrid — Balanced Fitness App Solution for All Parties

It is no surprise that fitness and sport are so popular. Physical activity is natural for people. People are looking for two things to feed their …

Cross-platform Mobile Development Overview, Flutter Vs React Native Development Comparison and Performance Checks

Cross-platform Mobile Development Overview, Flutter Vs React Native Development Comparison and Performance Checks

In the left corner is React Native from Facebook, on the right is Google’s Flutter. What stands behind these two popular frameworks? Why are they …

Milestone Has Passed: 15,000 of Dozens Users

Milestone Has Passed: 15,000 of Dozens Users

I love to develop digital products. It is the most exciting activity for me, at least by now. Moreover, it is not only my passion. My team always puts …

Story of App Creation to Convert Visual Content Into Comics

Story of App Creation to Convert Visual Content Into Comics

Visual information is more natural to perceive and quicker to absorb for most of us. It appeals to our emotions, reveals creativity, brings a stimulus …

Dozens Hits Top 10 Banking Apps Application for July 2019

Dozens Hits Top 10 Banking Apps Application for July 2019

We love to develop mobile solutions. It’s not another marketing slogan for us. Dashdevs team has the heart set on the idea of creating top-notch …

Product Owner Talks: Designing Invite Codes

Product Owner Talks: Designing Invite Codes

Have you ever googled “Uber invite codes”? There will be thousands of results with suggestions on how to use this invite codes, how to receive extra …

Unit Testing for .NET: Tools

Unit Testing for .NET: Tools

The necessity of unit testing ceased to be the subject of discussion lately: the real-life practice has proved, that unit tests are essential for a …

Logic in Design ... or Designers' Logic

Logic in Design ... or Designers' Logic

It is not another design article. It is just a confession about my pain. My personal belief is that everything in the design must be logical. No …

Dozens Is Named a Gamechanger by Startups 100 Index

Dozens Is Named a Gamechanger by Startups 100 Index

Dozens — a digital branchless financial institution, the technical partner of which is Dashdevs, entered the UK Startups 100 Index with the top 25th …

Brand-New Approach to Banking App Authorization

We all live in a digitized world. We use dozens of different applications daily. Messaging apps, sport tracking apps, apps to manage daily tasks, …

Impacts and Long-term Trends in Software Development Revealed at WWDC

Impacts and Long-term Trends in Software Development Revealed at WWDC

1. Swift UI — new UI implementation on iPhone Vision: Modern way to create and support your UI for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS. Before: UIKit was …

What Startups Are Recklessly Missing

What Startups Are Recklessly Missing

The moment an idea sneaks in the startuppers’ head, it occupies every free space it can. One doesn’t want to evaluate it. One just wants to deliver it …

Cryptomessengers: Effective Mix of Privacy and Add Values

Cryptomessengers: Effective Mix of Privacy and Add Values

Time is fleeting. It seems like yesterday to make a transaction or receive the money we had to go to the banks, stand in queues, experience technical …

The Price of Fintech Revolution

The Price of Fintech Revolution

When we hear or read of failure, we usually remember our hard times or even some painful situations. Our unconscious fear of fatality raises in our …

Dozens: from an Idea to the Digital Financial Institution in 9 Months

Dozens: from an Idea to the Digital Financial Institution in 9 Months

Have you ever thought about launching a successful digital product? Dreaming of a brilliant idea that would change the world, attract followers, and …

Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Product Development

Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Product Development

Despite widespread misconceptions, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is not only about communication and manipulations. And definitely not about the …

Neural Networks Usage at Mobile Development

Neural Networks Usage at Mobile Development

Machine learning is one of the top topics popular online. There appear more and more articles, discussions and examples of implementation of ML in …

Digital Banking: Challenging Beyond the Challengers

Digital Banking: Challenging Beyond the Challengers

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to …

Writing Testable Code. Main Rules

Writing Testable Code. Main Rules

Every developer knows that the testable code can make life easier. There are a lot of books and articles written about unit-testing. Particular …

Product Mindset is the Key to the Success

Product Mindset is the Key to the Success

Outsourcing is a rather popular approach for the software industry. Companies start to use it because they want to solve some internal issues. They …

Key Points of Creating a Messaging App

Key Points of Creating a Messaging App

One of the biggest mistakes of software engineers on the implementation stage is a lack of understanding of the specific issue they face or lack of …

Must-Have Features Of Messaging App

Must-Have Features Of Messaging App

This year has already prepared many surprises for each of us. The technological tsunami carries us faster and faster to the “new reality”: AI-powered …

Design Can’t Live Alone

Design Can’t Live Alone

What is the difference between a designer and an artist? What is the primary goal of design? How can you recognize outstanding design? My mind is …

How Google Can Help You to Steal Somebody's Personal Data

How Google Can Help You to Steal Somebody's Personal Data

2% of the free domains contain previous users’ personal data that can be easily stolen. Sounds crazy! Even if you don’t use your domain it can …

How to Successfully Submit an App to the App Store for Review

How to Successfully Submit an App to the App Store for Review

The Apple team has a strict vision concerning the quality of mobile applications. This is really great for the users, because the Apple team works …

Mobile Apps for Fintech from Scratch. Hints from Fields

Mobile Apps for Fintech from Scratch. Hints from Fields

There hardly exists a sphere of human activities untouched by mobile applications. Apps fit the swift pace of life entirely. We get used to the level …

Start-and-Up: Dunning-Kruger Effect on Startups

Start-and-Up: Dunning-Kruger Effect on Startups

“Startup” has become a usual word for us. Everybody knows what it means, but this word had no official definition for a long period of time. Commonly …

Creating My Budgeting App

Creating My Budgeting App

My very first budgeting tool was MS Excel. It was a really convenient solution 12 years ago. I created my budget items and planned my expenses per …

Design Checklist for the Perfect Charts

Design Checklist for the Perfect Charts

Many applications use charts to simplify perception of numeric information for a user. It is a straightforward and user-friendly solution. Nowadays we …

How We Hire A+ People For the Team

How We Hire A+ People For the Team

When you have really good people, you don’t have to baby them. By expecting them to do great things, you can get them to do great things. A+ players …

Our yearly results for 2018 in numbers. Growing 3 times makes us proud!

Our yearly results for 2018 in numbers. Growing 3 times makes us proud!

The year 2018 is over. This period was a full plate of great projects and prospective products for our sci-tech crew. Some projects were a challenge …

KYC: How to Avoid Fraud in Your Fintech App

KYC: How to Avoid Fraud in Your Fintech App

Nowadays, people can run the world via their mobile phones. We can communicate with friends, perform task management, financial operations, order or …

Advanced Shooting Accessories — the Great Breakthrough

Advanced Shooting Accessories — the Great Breakthrough

“Wow! It is super cool!” — the most concise client’s feedback “We did the Clipshot app on the basis of the knowledge of mathematics, statistics and …