10/23/2020
Russian Government Official Says ‘Digital Ruble Is The Future’
The currency would be used on blockchain systems and is a way for businesses to track goods across their supply chains, to prove country of origin, and track payments.
FinTech
10/23/2020
Danish Crypto Traders Launch EU Rregulated Hedge Fund ARK36-ARK36 Will be the first Activety Managed Regulated Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund in Cyprus
This has driven interest in the cryptocurrency market, which has risen from a total market capitalization of 17 billion at the start of 2017 to more than 200 billion at the start of 2020.
10/23/2020
Eyeing EU Banks, Hex Trust Teams With SIA on Crypto Custody
The firm is also helping banks manage and safekeep security tokens and central bank digital currencies, he added.
10/23/2020
BITA Risk wins the most innovative client solution award
BITA Risk now brings practical ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) management to the desktop for wealth managers.
10/22/2020
UniCredit inks remote working agreement with employee reps
UniCredit has become the latest firm to rethink its long-term attitude towards where staffers work in the wake of Covid-19, agreeing a deal to give all employees the chance to spend a part of their week working from home.
10/22/2020
SME Finance to launch Lithuanian digital bank
Baltic fintech startup SME Finance is planning to launch a neobank for small- and medium-sized enterprises in Lithuania.
10/22/2020
European Banking Federation On The EU’s Shift To Digital, Data-Driven Financial Services
Maniati noted the transformation had been in place well before COVID and has stretched back over five years, but has seen some urgency in recent months.
10/22/2020
Leading European Bank Uses NICE Authentication to Improve Security and Customer Experience
NICE Real-Time Authentication verifies customer identity in seconds and significantly boosts operations security for a leading bank in Europe
10/22/2020
Robo-advice firm suffers data breach
Around 20,000 clients had their ID, tax and account data stolen
10/22/2020
Where Have All The Robos Gone?
Build it and they will come.
10/22/2020
What advicetech trends can we expect to see in 2021? by Emily Chen, Iress
While consumer data rights legislation officially kicked off in July this year, it won’t be until next year we’ll begin to see some of the benefits of Open Banking.
10/22/2020
AI, or a thousand shades of grey? by Russ Bryan
With AI, after a time we may start to receive different answers from the same inputs because it generally involves broader data sets and far higher volumes, with all the associated probabilities.
10/22/2020
Digitizing and Streamlining Securities-Based-Lending from End-to-End in the Cloud
New technology provides a fully digital SBL process, from origination to collateral monitoring to loan servicing with advisor and client self-service capability
10/21/2020
How open banking is powering the future of wealth management
User onboarding, withdrawals and account aggregation all key areas for the technology
10/21/2020
Rise in Digital Banking Activities: Should UK Banks Be Wary Of Cyber Attacks?
The uncertainty over post-Brexit amendments in regulations, climate change concerns and the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the rise in demand for cashless banking.
10/21/2020
CH & Co. bolsters CLM offering with Wealth Dynamix alliance
Its clients span many of the top brands in retail and wholesale banking, insurance, wealth management and fintech.
10/20/2020
Is it time for an agile Revolution in Financial Services?
Fintech is booming, and digital financial services (digital wealth, online insurance, online trading etc.) are an integral contributor to that boom.
10/20/2020
Welcome to the future by Andrew Walsh, CEO, IRESS
To perform at our best we need to have the discipline to switch off and focus - we’re humans, not machines.
10/20/2020
Five information security rules for the new world by Andrew Todd, IRESS
People are still the primary risk to data loss or an information security breach, so keep up the training and education particularly around fraud and social engineering, and reinforce the care required around unknown emails, fake emails or websites.
10/16/2020
Market-leading Nordic private bank chooses Limina and Confluence Delta
Limina OMS and Confluence Delta come together to create an entirely new and holistic workflow for the wealth manager.