08/10/2017
Singapore Fintech Hub Will Open India Office
Founded in November, Lattice80 says it is the world’s biggest fintech hub
Comment & Analysis
08/07/2017
The existential challenge of AI
As AI technology evolves into artificial super intelligence (ASI), it will erode many job markets, Hames warns.
08/04/2017
The future of advice lies in finding the right blend of technology and the personal touch: HUB24
Along with the advantage of minimising clerical work, technology tools are also allowing advisers more time to develop the relationships that drive their businesses
08/03/2017
Fintech firms look to Ireland
Ireland could be a location choice for firms in the burgeoning financial technology (fintech) industry post- Brexit, according to a report from KPMG.
08/02/2017
Hedge funds turn to dark web to gain an edge
Business intelligence firms are scouring the darkest corners of the internet to help their hedge fund clients
08/01/2017
IT’s future value proposition
IT is poised to play a new, more strategic role in companies, one that moves beyond support to create business value through technology-based business innovation and digital initiatives.
08/01/2017
Beware of bitcoin, warns Lombard Odier
Volatility and rising competition are both fundamental concerns.
07/28/2017
How Banks Can Keep Up With Digital Disruptors
There are very few industries in which CEOs do not live in fear of digital disruption.
07/25/2017
AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants
Allows some of UBS’s European wealth-management clients to ask Alexa certain financial and economic questions.
07/25/2017
St. James’s Place – "Tech companies flying high"
In fact, US technology stocks had their own frigatebird moment back in 2000, reaching a stock market peak on 27 March of that year. Last week the S&P 500 Technology index, having risen 20% this year, finally topped that high for the first time.
07/21/2017
The crowdfunding “phoenix”: The rise of a ‘trend’ to a ‘sector’ and the challenges ahead
Alternative finance and funding models such as crowdfunding, online marketplace, crowdinvesting and crowdlending are gaining an exponential growth each year across the world.
07/21/2017
Nimble fintechs are going to sweep away the old banks – right? Wrong
What we also heard – that may surprise the champions of change – is that many of the challenges faced by fintechs and the old guard are the same.
07/20/2017
AI will be ubiquitous in 2020 but overhyped in 2017
AI is seen as augmenting humans’ work rather than displacing it.
07/19/2017
The challengers’ challenge – fintech coming of age
What makes infrastructure ‘legacy’?
07/18/2017
Citi's Digital Growth in Asia
A standout performer was Citi’s consumer bank in the region.
07/17/2017
The 50-year Banking Revolution by Geoff Cook
However, I would argue that the anniversary to really celebrate didn’t happen until five years later, when a technological transformation profoundly changed our interaction with cash and credit.
07/13/2017
How to profit from the rise of robots who'll make your tea: As spending on robotics is expected to soar, here's how to invest
By 2030 it is predicted up to a third of British jobs could be done by robots
07/11/2017
How the Wealth Management Workforce Will Change
Today, however, wealth management is one of the industries being rapidly transformed by technology, replacing what were once considered ‘core functions’, such as investment management and trust administration – with machines.
07/11/2017
Fintech unlikely to replace traditional financial sector
The number of startups that would become big peer-to-peer winners was going to be in the tens, not the hundreds or the thousands.
07/05/2017
Former Barclay’s CEO Warns Banks of ‘Kodak Moment,’ Pushes to Embrace Fintech
Jenkins went on to address the widespread growth of cryptocurrencies and the rise of artificial intelligence are just the beginning of the change in the way banking is handled worldwide.