Andra Sonea·Nov 2, 2025I am a geographer after allI found a date and a place on the back of this photo: April 1989, Onesti Romania. I was in my last year of high school and was here at the…A response icon1A response icon1
Andra Sonea·Mar 6, 2021The history of Fintech and the #fintechgirlsLast week Simon Redfern of Open Banking Project sent me this old photo from a BarCampBank in Berlin in 2011. At that time, the term “open…
Andra Sonea·Nov 29, 2020The kids talk about issues of little importanceApparently between 8th of June and 21st of June 1985 my brother and I discussed boring stuff on the phone. I know this from a section of…A response icon1A response icon1
Andra Sonea·Sep 24, 2020Private Sonea reports!When I was a private in the Romanian army my family name was not Sonea but my maiden name which was very long, rare and unpronounceable…
Andra Sonea·Apr 27, 2020TL;DR: we made a joke out of the Open Banking/Open Data APIsIf there was a time when the banking APIs for branches and ATMs would have been needed it was now, during lockdown. Before going into the…
Andra Sonea·Jan 7, 2020We need not tell the children it is an honour to die in hellMentality is a crow in a cage
Andra Sonea·Jan 2, 2020ResistAs usual, what I write here is a personal story. Take it as such. I tried not to write anymore about the incredible similarities between…
Andra Sonea·Nov 26, 2019The mobile branch did not come this week. So what?This is the third story in the “So what?” series of stories which have either inspired my research this year or which I discovered through…
Andra Sonea·Nov 16, 2019A mobile branch van will stop on Tuesday for 5 minutes in the nearby village. So what?Before starting my research into access to banking in the UK, I did not know “mobile branches” vans exist. It is fair to say that even…
Andra Sonea·Nov 4, 2019For 70 years old, wheelchair bound Tim, the taxi ride to the bank costs 16GBP. So what?This is the first in a series of “So what?” stories which have either inspired my research this year or which I discovered through my…
