Category : Fintech News

CIMB and Ripple Ties Up for Instant Cross Border Payments

CIMB Group and Ripple have entered into a strategic collaboration to enable instant cross border payments across its various markets.

MAS Moots «Sandbox Express» to Spur Innovation

The Monetary Authority of Singapore is consulting the public for a «Sandbox Express», a regulatory environment which further supports experimentation and innovation.

Fusion Wealth Expands Relationship with SEI

Fusion Wealth, a solutions provider for wealth managers and large-scale financial planners, has extended its existing long-term relationship with SEI through a new deal that will see the pair work together until at least 2025. Fusion Wealth first app...

Winner of Healthcare Unblocked Startup Showcase Announced

Written By Matthew Dove (Digital Editor) Competition was fierce at Healthcare Unblocked on Friday as four startups vied for the top spot in the event’s Transformation in Practice – Startup Showcase. Your humble narrator was lucky enough t...

Fintech to Launch the World's First Crypto ETP

A fintech wants to list the world’s first crypto index product on the stock exchange. It has hired an expert for passive investments to help it with the launch.

Cybersecurity Guidelines for Singapore Banks

The Association of Banks in Singapore, with support from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, has developed a set of cybersecurity guidelines to strengthen the cyber resilience of the sector

Have Banks Caught Up with Credit Unions on Customer Service?

After a decade of lagging behind, banks may finally have closed a gap with credit unions when it comes to customer service, new research from the American Customer Satisfaction Index suggests. Credit unions and banks both posted an ACSI score of 81 (...

Zelle Says It Welcomes Community Banks

Last week, Bank Innovation wrote about the difficulty smaller banks claim to experience offering their customers the P2P platform Zelle. The smaller financial institutions voiced concerns of long waits and an underlying bias on the part of bank-backe...

Global Fintech Platform Avaloq Develop Ecosystem Through a Venture Capital Fund

Avaloq, global provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) solutions to banks and wealth managers, leverages the firm’s extensive ecosystem to further increase innovation speed for the financial industry. A new...

FINOS Launches Decentralized Ecosystem Growth Program

IHS Markit and Clovyr collaborate on open source software to help the financial industry build blockchain and decentralized applications at scale. November 14, 2018 – LONDON AND NEW YORK – FINOS (the Fintech Open Source Foundation), a nonprofit...

ZOPA Reveals that UK Parent’s Admit to Borrowing up to £250 from their Children in the Lead up to Christmas

The latest research from Zopa, the pioneering financial services company, reveals that 86% of UK parents gift money to their children and, whilst 69% do it because they want them to be able to choose their own gift, nearly a quarter of those parents...

Using Bitcoin to Gamble Online

It seems that online gambling is always in a state of permanent evolution, adapting to new technologies and innovations accordingly. This includes milestone innovations like not having to download an entire online casino to your desktop thanks to Fla...

myprosperity Launches in the UK, Targeting 27 Million Households to Help Financial Advisers Attract Clients

A fledging wealth portal, myprosperity has launched its platform in the United Kingdom, targeting a market of around 27 million households as it gears up to help Brits better manage their finances and provide advisers with the tools to attract and re...

Hacking into top cryptocurrency exchanges can now earn you top dollar at Hack-X, UCIM, Singapore

Hacking into top cryptocurrency exchanges can now earn you bounty at Hack-X, UCIM, Singapore United Conference of Internet Money (UCIM) has recently launched Hack-X, a platform that attempts to hack into the top exchanges across the world in an attem...

Blockchain Verification, Traceability and Ethics at Healthcare Unblocked 2018

Healthcare Unblocked, held at Prospero House in London on Friday, is Europe’s first public event fully dedicated to explaining, understanding and pursuing the potential of blockchain technology to deliver healthcare innovation. Highlights of the eve...