06/03/2022
Europe fintech funding round-up: Merge, Kapaga, Beanstalk and more
Other investors include Hashed, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research and Ethereal Ventures, alongside a number of angel investors.
FinTech
06/03/2022
Trustly acquires Ecospend
As previously announced, the UK is one of Trustly's core growth markets.
06/01/2022
Moneyinfo adds white labelled onboarding app
Moneyinfo said the new app will allow Financial Planners to remove paperwork, secure their communications and achieve ‘significant time and cost savings’.
06/01/2022
Geneva blockchain fund fintech raises CHF 2.5m
The company's founder said that a Series A fundraising is in its longer term plans, but not the current priority.
06/01/2022
Accenture Agrees to Acquire ARZ in Austria to Expand Banking Platform-as-a-Service Capabilities Across Europe
The acquisition will expand Accenture’s cloud-based banking platform-as-a-service offerings, ranging from core banking services to online banking as well as regulatory services for banking clients across Europe.
06/01/2022
Money can’t buy happiness…but Cloud can
Something we are instead 100% sure about is that those who considered Cloud a passing fad had it all wrong and it still increasingly provides a big opportunity to enable business change
05/31/2022
FB50
The industry measure of brand success from the voice of the market. An annual study of fund selectors' best global asset management brands.
05/30/2022
The Shortlist For The 2022 FinTech Awards Wales Has Been Announced
The last few years have been testing but it is great to see how the Welsh FinTech community has driven innovation combined with an explosion of talent and growth in the FinTech sector in Wales.
05/30/2022
White Paper: The Future Of Fund Management
We highlight and discuss three key areas
05/30/2022
Plan, Prepare and Partner for the PRIIPs KID Transition
Within a year, all UCITS funds or retail funds, domiciled in an EU jurisdiction or being sold into one will require a PRIIPs kid.
05/30/2022
Reporting by digital platforms: 2024 start date confirmed
The rules would require digital platforms to collect, and report to HMRC, information on the income of certain sellers using their platforms to rent property, provide personal services, sell goods, and hire transport.
05/30/2022
CaixaBank launches subsidiary company OpenWealth for high net worth clients
OpenWealth will provide a ‘Multifamily Office’ offering to customers
05/26/2022
Digital PB partners with Italian group to boost digital WM
In April 2022, Fideuram-ISPB made a CHF 19m equity investment in the digital bank as part of the latter’s series B+ financing round.
05/26/2022
Robotics hiring levels in the private banking industry rose in April 2022
We've analysed hiring patterns using data from GlobalData
05/25/2022
BNP Paribas joins JP Morgan’s Onyx blockchain as it ramps up digital assets play
The bank traded its first intraday repo on the platform last week, becoming the first European bank to join the network.
05/25/2022
Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking partnering to advance the digital wealth management offering for the clients of Fideuram-ISPB
The combination of this expertise with Fideuram-ISPB’s private banking knowledge will allow to develop a product roadmap designed to enhance the digital wealth management offerings for Fideuram-ISPB’s clients.
05/24/2022
One deadline ahead in Operational Resilience. Now off to the next!
The countdown has already started to the next deadline of 31 March 2025, for firms to prove their ability to operate within impact tolerances.
05/24/2022
Recent developments in the UK and Dubai as jurisdictions compete to become hubs for crypto innovation
"This is part of our plan to ensure the UK financial services industry is always at the forefront of technology and innovation."
05/23/2022
Open Banking Bumpy but Adoption Curve Better Than Contactless Payments
That growth led to open banking hitting a milestone figure of 5 million users in 2021, with adoption increasing at a rate of about 1 million new users every six months
05/23/2022
Binance UK partners with Fintech Founders group
With the UK government throwing its weight behind the country becoming a hub for digital assets innovation, more and more fintech innovators are looking to the crypto space also.