Category : Fintech News

Money 20/20 special report: Digital revolution based on cooperation

Kate Goldfinch, Science Editor at The Fintech Times. Every year, Money20/20 attracts the best, boldest and brightest businesses from across payments, fintech and financial services. From industry institutions to up-and-coming innovators, everyone is...

The Global Regulation Climate x The London Ethereum Meet Up

25th July – Last night the London Ethereum community celebrated 12 months of meet-ups that discuss new ideas and the progress of disruptive Fintech start-ups. Rudolf Medvedev, CEO of Ternion, was the keynote speaker of the night enlightening...

Can SWIFT Outrun Fintech?

Start-ups like Ripple are undercutting SWIFT with cheaper, faster services. Michael Moon, head of payments for the global payments network, tells finews.asia how he plans to respond.

Gabriel Soderberg on Financial Inclusion

Gabriel Soderberg, Financial Stability Advisor at Sveriges Riksbank. Sweden is a success story when it comes to financial inclusion – almost 100 percent have a bank account. But, at the same time, we have new issues instead, mainly because cash...

Liberis gains first small business funding application via Open Banking

Alternative finance provider Liberis has used Open Banking technology to increase funding access for UK small businesses; using it to process a full funding application for the first time. Some hail this as a milestone in the financial world, Open...

Financial Firms in Asia Accelerate Move to the Cloud

Over a quarter of Asian financial firms expect to use public cloud for the majority of their market data needs within a year.

Financials in Asia Accelerate Move to the Cloud

Over a quarter of Asian financial firms expect to use public cloud for the majority of their market data needs within a year.

Riot Research: AI bubble burst will clear the air for sustained growth in key sectors.

Rethink Research argue that the AI bubble is due to burst after several years of sustained hype have generated unrealistic expectations that cannot be met and excessive investments that cannot possibly be paid back. This is the key message in the lat...

Sweden’s success story for financial inclusion

Gabriel Soderberg, adviser at the financial stability department of Sveriges Riksbank Sweden is a success story when it comes to financial inclusion – almost 100 percent have a bank account. But, at the same time, we have new issues instead, ma...

Mobile Voice Revenues to Fall by $157 billion by 2023, As Operators Seek New Income from 5G & AI

A new study found that operator-billed mobile voice revenues will fall from $354 billion in 2018 to $197 billion by 2023, an average annual decline of 10%. The recent research, Mobile Voice: Operator Strategies & Vendor Opportunities 2018-2023, i...

Ant Financial: Financial inclusivity based on social responsibility

Proper financial inclusion is directly linked to social responsibility – we can’t aim for financial inclusion without the intention to make the world a better place. Bearing this in mind, we’ve reviewed the global case for financial inclu...

The last thing the world needs right now is another bank

Interviewed by Katia Lang, editor-in-chief at The Fintech Times. We caught up with Sofie in Amsterdam, where she was speaking at Money2020. She told us about the groundbreaking work Hiveonline is doing, and how it might just help put a stop to govern...

Four in five financial services professionals could be exposing their organisations to financial crime risk by relying on search engines

Research has recently flagged a reliance on search engines for financial crime due diligence. This means that financial services professionals utilise search engines to evaluate financial crime and regulatory risk. LexisNexis Risk Solutions estimates...

Standard Chartered teams up with Silent Eight to fight financial crime.

Standard Chartered has teamed up with Silent Eight to heighten its ability to combat financial crime. To kickstart these new capabilities they will be using Regtech supplied by Silent Eight. For those of you who aren’t familiar with RegTech, it is s...

Fujitsu announces a rapid blockchain productisation.

Fujitsu announced on the 10th of July availability of a new, extremely rapid blockchain productisation framework which enables the development of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) in only five days. This blockchain productionisation is aimed at organis...