09/10/2018
TransferWise reports second year of profit, revenue almost doubles
TransferWise reported an annual post-tax net profit of $8 million for the fiscal year ending March 2018.
FinTech
09/09/2018
deVere crypto app attracts 15,000 clients
“Overwhelmingly positive” reception to deVere app
09/09/2018
Sberbank Teams Up With 500 Startups to Launch New Russian IT Startups Program
The bank also revealed that at the first stage, the teams will work on start-ups in Moscow for nine weeks and their mentors will be specialists from The final stage will be a demo day where top managers from Sberbank, private venture investors and represe
09/07/2018
Bath-based MyLife Digital announces investment & management team changes
MyLife Digital is already a leading player in the growing South West and UK technology sector.
09/06/2018
Asset management: innovation “behind other sectors”
As regulators tighten their grip, and competition heightens among the buy side, fintech emerges as the saviour
09/06/2018
Platform technology provider boasts soaring assets
"Composer's modular design also gives clients the flexibility to add new services as their propositions evolve in line with their own timescales and individual business plans.”
09/05/2018
Bob Diamond is a building a new digital bank in Greece
With plans to launch a targeted network of retail stores and business hubs
09/04/2018
Wealth platform to realise True Potential with £2bn sale
The Newcastle-based company is seeking a lofty valuation as demand soars for successful fintech assets, Sky News learns.
09/04/2018
Technology is the 'most profound force bearing down' on big banks, ex-Barclays boss says
"If you look at how the banks are capitalized today, the amount of liquidity they have inside them, they are way stronger today than they were before the crisis and that, of course, is a good thing," Jenkins said.
09/04/2018
Openwork posts record profits for 2017
Recurring & repeatable income grew by 35 per cent to £173.5m during 2017, representing 49 per cent of total income.
09/03/2018
HSBC plans digital bank to counter online rivals
HSBC joins high street rivals RBS and Santander in the race to build separate digital brands
09/03/2018
Robo-advice not dead: GlobalData
Woldemichael added the average account balances of the biggest UK robo platforms suggested robo-advice was "a mass market game," with excessive fees the reason investors didn't flock to UBS' robo offering.
08/31/2018
UBS mass market push ends with robo-advisor sale
The Swiss bank was ‘out of its comfort zone’ with the Smartwealth launch.
08/31/2018
The 3 Best Places In Europe To Start A Blockchain Company
One's an island, one's a former Soviet state, and one's not in Europe. Those crazy Euros!
08/31/2018
Technology tycoons plot £1.5bn London float
Funding Circle will be the first peer-to-peer (P2P) lender to join the UK public markets, in a sign that the industry is coming of age.
08/30/2018
Russia’s Pension Fund Eyes Blockchain to Prevent Labor Abuse
The FIU currently houses employers’ data about insurance premiums and tax deductions on centralized servers.
08/29/2018
Coinfloor secures in-principle authorisation as DLT provider in Gibraltar
As an industry, it’s important that we work closely with policy makers
08/29/2018
Raisin launches Dutch platform
Raisin will soon offer a broad assortment of term deposit and overnight accounts to Dutch consumers
08/29/2018
UBS closes robo-adviser SmartWealth to new clients
We are pleased, however, to have entered into an agreement to sell the intellectual property relating to UBS SmartWealth
08/29/2018
£379bn advice tech provider integrates pension switching firm
Intelliflo’s subscribers will be able to access Selectapension’s pension switching tool from within their back office system.