12/06/2017
Treasury predicts 16m people to benefit from robo-advice
The digital-only fund would reduce the number of intermediaries used and result in lower end-costs, the paper said.
FinTech
12/05/2017
Nordea joins first blockchain-based trade finance platform as founding partner
The commercialisation of the platform is anticipated in Q2 2018
12/05/2017
KBC receives International Banker Awards for the second year running
Johan Thijs 'CEO of the Year (Western Europe)', KBC 'Best Innovation in Retail Banking Belgium' , ČSOB 'Best Private Bank of the Year – Czech Republic'
12/05/2017
ABN Amro launches digital wealth management unit Prospery in Germany
Prospery, an initiative of ABN AMRO, is the first in Europe to offer a proposition such as this.
12/04/2017
Eagle Investment Systems and salerio build investment solution
Users can complete the entire post-execution trade lifecycle using a single solution to centralise international trade processing and to coordinate fully with the Eagle investment platform.
12/04/2017
Innovating evolving world
Money is moving.
12/04/2017
Calastone to bring mutual funds market onto blockchain in 2019
This migration enables Calastone to achieve the highest levels of operational resilience and scale through the distributed, yet private nature of the new blockchain infrastructure.
12/03/2017
Forward, comrades, to the past! by Tim Price
November 1977, when troops were called out to replace them, complete with Green Goddess vehicles not wholly fit for purpose given that they hailed from the 1950s.
12/01/2017
Malta Bitcoin Schizophrenia: Government and Banks Send Mixed Signals
It’s the smallest nation in the European Union.
11/30/2017
Irish Fintech Expands Into Asia
Research published earlier this year from Munich Re puts the growth of the life insurance industry in Asia’s emerging markets at above 10 percent across 2017-2018.
11/30/2017
FinReach extends digital reach to Austria and Spain
Via its service, bank clients can switch their direct debits, standing orders and incoming payments from one bank to another fully automatically.
11/30/2017
Vontobel launches first digital platform covering corporate finance themes
“With our new information portal, we want to promote dialogue and foster knowledge of corporate finance,” said Hanspeter Gehrer, Head of Vontobel Corporate Finance.
11/30/2017
Intercede signs deal with large unnamed European bank
By deploying more robust methods of authentication, the bank would be able to reduce instances of fraud and improve the level of privacy and security provided to customers.
11/29/2017
Luxembourg House of Financial Technology Foundation Signs MOU With Fintech Association of Japan
Fintech Association of Japan has also signed an MOU with Bahrain FinTech Bay, a FinTech hub representing Bahrain MOU.
11/26/2017
Denmark and Singapore strengthen promising fintech collaboration
The agreement enables between the two regulators to refer fintech companies to their counterparts
11/24/2017
Tech Still Hedge Funds' Sweetheart Sector: Goldman Sachs
Tech Stocks Remain The Largest Net Sector Exposure For Equity Hedge Funds
11/23/2017
Starling makes big European push
Starling has also been accepted into the EU’s payments system, Target2
11/23/2017
HSBC, like its competitors, is searching for the Holy Grail of digital banking, Google Bank
The search for the Holy Grail that is Google bank, has been going on ever since digital banking took hold.
11/23/2017
UBS Seeks to Expand Workforce in Artificial Intelligence
Future lies in ‘cognitive’ bank, head of innovation says
11/22/2017
UK remains a hot fintech hub despite Brexit woes
Devin Kohli, co-head of Emerging Companies at Investec, tells The National that overseas investors can’t get enough of British financial technology start-ups