08/20/2018
Digitising financial services still in early stages
This is important in the sense that acquiring clients has become more challenging and costly as competition increases.
FinTech
08/17/2018
A German fintech startup backed by Peter Thiel has raised $100 million
Deposit Solutions has raised $100 million at a $500 million valuation.
08/16/2018
How Barclays are banking on a new breed of tech workers
Chief information officer Graham Bastin says Manchester is key to the bank's future
08/16/2018
Société Générale to introduce biometrics to French banking
With the news, the bank has set a target of increasing the amount of new accounts opened by 2020 by 30%.
08/15/2018
Robo-adviser launches ethical portfolios
Wealthify’s five ethical portfolios use active funds from providers such as Edentree, Liontrust, Royal London, iShares, and Vanguard.
08/15/2018
UK startup, Capital On Tap secures £140 million in debt funding
Capital On Tap is not publicly disclosing its valuation but it has now raised over £30 million of equity and £200 million of debt to date.
08/15/2018
First Direct takes the lead as banks now have to say if their own customers would recommend them
They will also have to send reminders to their customers when they make changes such as closing local branches or hiking charges.
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.
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.