12/12/2016
Ireland to Launch Blockchain Advocacy Group to Push FinTech Agenda
Blockchain Association of Ireland has been developed to aid groups in Ireland in areas relating to smart contracts, FinTech, and digital currency
FinTech
12/12/2016
Börse Berlin implements Scila Surveillance
A realiable realtime surveillance of trading is one of the core elements at a regulated market for securities
12/12/2016
Gemma Godfrey partners with BlackRock for robo launch
Godfrey, a former head of investment strategy at Brooks Macdonald, revealed her intention to launch the online wealth firm, last September, targeting £2 million from investors.
12/11/2016
Börse Berlin implements Scila Surveillance
The system is fully compliant with Market Abuse Regulation and includes a broad selection of alert rules and reports, powerful search and replay functionality as well as visualization views.
12/08/2016
European Central Bank & Japan’s Central Bank Partner for Blockchain Research
European Central Bank & Japan’s Central Bank agreed to launch a joint research project which studies the possible use of DLT for market infrastructure
12/07/2016
For Aggregation Service, Lloyds May Use PSD2
PSD2 will soon force European banks to make available their application programming interfaces
12/07/2016
Digital challenger bank Atom launches online-only mortgages as it hits £100 million in deposits
The mortgage market is pretty competitive
12/07/2016
Metro Bank joins Faster Payments Scheme
Metro Bank now a fully operational participating financial provider of Faster Payments
12/06/2016
PBF Solutions Helps New Challenger Banks Attract UK Savers and Grow
PBF helps new-entrant financial organisations and challenger banks enter the UK market using its specialised online customer acquisition platform
12/06/2016
Mobile-phone based bank Number26 expands to 17 European markets
Without the expense of branches or legacy computer infrastructure and by relying on selective outsourcing.
12/06/2016
Veritas extends SEI wealth contract
As the industry continues to adjust to the broader technological upheaval impacting the market.
12/05/2016
Mumbai and Tel Aviv are the rising financial centres as power shifts from the West, says Barclays chief
India, Singapore or Israel could be the financial technology capital of the future
12/05/2016
European VCs are going to make flying cars a reality
There’s 14 times the amount of later stage capital committed in the U.S. versus Europe
12/05/2016
Dion Global gets Erste Bank 'Sepa ready' for real time payments
These Erste Group businesses can now initiate SEPA payments and direct debits using Dion’s payment solutions.
12/01/2016
How to build a digital strategy for your business... (Part 6/6) by Mik Cons, CEO of Sammedia
Robo-Advice is coming.
11/30/2016
Bank of England recruits fintech firms to ramp up cybersecurity drive
Officials are getting financial technology (fintech) firms into Threadneedle Street to work on ways to use new systems to combat fraud.
11/30/2016
Legal & General Backs Innovative UK Wide Venture Investment Platform With Woodford Investment Management And British Business Bank
Legal & General sees an opportunity to help drive the institutionalisation of the venture asset class and create a leading venture investment ecosystem across the UK.
11/30/2016
Barclays launches digital investment platform
Competition for customers in the investment space is heating up.
11/30/2016
Sopra Steria Achieves AWS Financial Services Competency Status
Achieving the AWS Financial Services Competency differentiates Sopra Steria as an AWS Partner Network member
11/30/2016
Grant Thornton steps up cyber security to enhance protection of clients’ personal data
Cyber security has long been a priority for Grant Thornton, with exceptionally high standards expected