01/09/2020
There’s an argument to be made that 2020 could be the year in which the long post-financial-crisis recovery of the banking industry and the rise of fintechs as major industry players both get blown off course.
01/07/2020
These behavioural changes are critical to execute more, and increasingly strategic, finance priorities while improving their service to internal customers
01/05/2020
Yillion and Hande groups latest known China entrants in race for digibank licence; they're part of bid led by iFast Corp
01/05/2020
The banking industry was the biggest investor in AI-related applications, accounting for 70 percent of all market purchases.
01/03/2020
The study is based on a survey of 180 companies worldwide, half of them fintechs and the others being incubators and accelerators, consultancies, financial institutions and investors, with respondent being based in the UK, Middle East, other Europe, South
01/03/2020
On the other hand, there are also countries in the Middle East that are trying everything in their will not to let Cryptocurrency enter their nation.
01/03/2020
Heading into a new decade, the potential this technology has to create significant efficiencies in the handling of payments and customer data is opening up new avenues for opportunity.
01/02/2020
A key factor when analyzing the industry in the Arab world is how nascent industry adoption works within it: From the top down.
01/02/2020
First of all, the way we worked with our customers 10 or 20 years ago is not the same as our current approach.
01/02/2020
The banking industry is letting go of some of its traditional methods and looking at new and innovative ways to make life easier for customers.
12/31/2019
The US Stock market produced the star companies of the western world in the technology area.
12/31/2019
Licaitong, Tencent's wealth management platform which sells mutual-fund and fixed-term wealth management products, said it now has over 150 million users and 38 percent of these are born after 1990.
12/31/2019
Africa’s thirst for blockchain skills has seen the rise of institutions that offer related courses.
12/31/2019
Agencies will adopt a zero trust mindset
12/31/2019
He said that technology is the major cost for platforms, and dealing with the issue is akin to "trying to fix the engine in a car when it’s running down the fast lane on a motorway".
12/31/2019
There are legitimate questions about the ethics of employing AI in place of human workers. But what about when there's a moral imperative to automate?
12/31/2019
Hong Kong: a decline in regional dominance?
12/30/2019
Aside from a €50 million fine that France’s privacy regulator imposed on Google in January, there have been no fines or remedies levied at a U.S. giant since the GDPR came into effect.
12/30/2019
The growing appetite for UK start-ups in 2019 stood out against the US and Europe, where venture capital fundraising waned from decade-highs in 2018.
12/29/2019
Collaboration between Hong Kong and Thailand is expected to help companies save costs incurred in cross-border payments