08/10/2018
German banking startups, stalwarts betting on artificial intelligence
Machine learning will make banking easier before it makes it better, say German fintechs and banks.
FinTech
08/08/2018
Standard Life to make advice tech available to all IFAs
Barry O'Dwyer, chief executive of Standard Life, said the process was part of the company's plans to grow 1825 and it is currently testing how much of the advice "journey" can be digitised safely.
08/08/2018
Coming of age digitally
Learning, leadership, and legacy
08/07/2018
Iress opens software labs to users
IRESS Labs is starting with a focus on XPLAN, with 75 firms having already participated in development experiments to date and co-designed functionality already released.
08/05/2018
Netherlands Central Bank: We Don't Consider Cryptocurrency to be Money
The central bank of the Netherlands has issued new comments on cryptocurrency this week, continuing a popular narrative from the banking sector that it is “not money.”
08/03/2018
Understanding Cyber Insurance - A Structured Dialogue with Insurance Companies
Additionally, largescale cyber-attacks rank sixth in the list of risks most likely to occur in the next 10 years.
08/02/2018
Adviser puts robo service on ice
One of the areas where Mr Rush said he was looking to improve the service was in how vulnerable clients were serviced, something he said his experiences helping steelworkers with their pensions had emphasised.
08/02/2018
PSR report: Contactless mobile payments
Our call for information exercise is now complete.
08/01/2018
Enhanced Customer Onboarding is a Wealth Management Priority
o effectively address competitive challenges, Wealth Management firms tend to deploy technologies that stipulate the uniqueness and personalisation of their customer service.
07/31/2018
Aegon tasks 200 more people with tackling platform woes
Aegon bought Cofunds in 2016 for £140m and had been planning the integration of the two platforms ever since.
07/30/2018
Balancing the risks and rewards of FinTech
On 3 July 2018, the EBA published two reports looking at the impact of FinTech on business models, prudential risks and opportunities.
07/30/2018
Fund managers count cost of Facebook’s $120bn fall
Investor concerns grow over level of wealth concentrated in handful of tech stocks
07/30/2018
Another Guernsey first for ILS trend-setter
Last year Mr Edmonds announced that Dom Re IC, a cell of Solidum Re, had issued what was believed to be the first notes ever to have been digitised on a private blockchain.
07/27/2018
Funds stump up $1m to test decentralised asset management system
The Swiss stock exchange is also eyeing this space and is building a digital platform encompassing the entire trading chain that it plans to launch by the middle of next year.
07/27/2018
Asset management network RigoBlock partners with Ethfinex
The emergence of Ethereum as a disruptive force within the financial space has allowed us to reinvent the ways in which value can be captured and shared, and we're eager to build an ecosystem of added value products into Ethfinex for our users, start
07/27/2018
Why Cyprus Is the Best Place in Europe for Digital Business
The benefits of this island nation are many for online entrepreneurs.
07/27/2018
ERI wins the "Best Private Banking System"
Systems in the City Awards are positioned as being a leading endorsement for suppliers of services and systems to the regulated financial services sector in the United Kingdom.
07/27/2018
Schroders CEO: fintech is the ‘greatest opportunity we face’
Schroders CEO says his firm is working with '25 or 26' fintech startups and entrepreneurs
07/27/2018
PwC opens Experience Centers in Amsterdam, Brussels en Luxembourg
The business landscape has changed rapidly in recent years, and as a result innovation is becoming an increasingly important recipe for success.
07/26/2018
Banks investing more in blockchain than tech companies
Banks were once sceptical about blockchain technology, but now – having recognised it as an existential threat to their businesses – they are leading the way in its development and implementation.