Fintech News Archives

Dubai Leads the way in Fintech Initiatives

Financial technology, commonly known as fintech has become the buzzword of the decade in the financial services industry. Dubai International Financial Centre...

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Can P2P Lending Kill NBFCs?

P2P lending standing for Peer-to-peer lending is a debt system that allows parties to borrow or lend money without involving any official...

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VCs Ignore Brexit to Accelerate their UK Fintech Investments

Contrary to the fears that Brexit would affect VC UK Fintech investments, the first half of 2017 saw more investors pour their...

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ETHLend: The First Decentralized Lending Application Aims to Create Global P2P Lending Market

ETHLend is a blockchain startup founded by Stani Kulechov. ETHLend aims to provide a global peer-to-peer lending market by using blockchain technology...

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Fintech Startup Klarna Raises $250M at $2.5B valuation

Klarna is a Swedish fintech startup that works with e-commerce retailers and businesses to make online shopping easy and hassle-free. On 21...

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Fintech companies Urge the Federal Reserve to use Cryptocurrency

Faster Payments Task Force has compiled a report in which companies have made a strong case for the U.S Federal Reserve to...

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Can Blockchain be the Key to Overcoming the AML Challenge in Crypto-Currency?

Special Counsel Roy Keidar of law firm Yigal Arnon & Co examines how blockchain could provide the answer to the anti-money laundering...

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Here is why Banks will soon be acquiring fintech startups instead of investing in them

Industry experts have opined that JPMorgan’s interest in Worldpay is likely to mark the beginning of acquisition of European fintech startups by...

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Educational technology Innovations and Investments in Africa

There is much hype about Educational Technology. ‘Disruption’ and ‘transformation’ are common bullets in presentations at large education gatherings mostly in North...

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Demystifying Initial Coin Offering

The no-holds-barred philosophy of “asking for forgiveness as opposed to permission” reigns in bitcoin-land where developers write software and entrepreneurs build businesses...

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Banking Technology Innovations and Investments in Africa

According to the latest report by the world bank, 66% of the people in the Sub-Saharan Africa do not have a bank...

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10 Popular RegTech Startups in Ireland

Between 2009 and 2017, 54,000 regulatory documents have been published by 130 regulatory bodies in the G20 countries alone. The non-G20 countries...

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How Boston Fintech is Boosting like the Major Global Fintech Hubs

Boston, the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States, is doing really well in fintech....

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Boost as Major Global Banks Join SWIFT’s Blockchain Proof of Concept

SWIFT is the global provider of secure financial messaging services. Its secure messaging platform connects over 11,000 banking and securities companies across...

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Japan Takes Active Steps to Promote Fintech

The financial regulator in Japan, the Financial Services Authority, intends to establish a fintech hub that will provide a framework to enable...

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PNC Seeks Partnership with Fintechs While Some Banks Consider Venmo a Threat

In February this year, Bloomberg reported that big banks in the U.S had declared war on Venmo. However, for Mike Lyons, the...

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London Fintech Week 2017: A Fintech Innovation Conference

London fintech week involves a series of conferences, workshops, exhibitions, meetups, hackathons, and parties. On each day of the week, a different...

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10 Popular RegTech Firms Specialising in Regulatory Reporting

Regulatory reporting has increased significantly with regulators requiring more frequent and more granular reporting. Nevertheless, it is not immediately clear how effectively...