12/13/2019
Why Middle East startups are choosing the cloud
Startups approach cloud and, more importantly, security, with a different viewpoint when compared to larger established organisations.
Innovation & Startups
12/13/2019
GIB hosts Fintech Saudi event at bank’s Al Khobar Innovation Centre
GIB’s event discussed the key changes in consumer expectations and demands, how leading organisations are responding to these, and what impact these changes are having in the market overall.
12/13/2019
How regtech will help in enhancing emerging Asia's financial markets
Different regulatory regimes and cultural practices across region can benefit from tapping proven, high-quality monitoring and tracking systems.
12/13/2019
Digital economy to bring rise to 21st-century unions
While technology in the workplace is already directly affecting people in some forms of low-paid work, the report notes that people in traditionally safe white-collar jobs, such as accountancy, will also soon start to see significant changes to their work
12/13/2019
Envestnet | MoneyGuide partners with Buckingham Wealth Partners
MoneyGuide was created to ensure individual complex planning needs could be met, and we are thrilled to partner with Buckingham Strategic Wealth to provide scalable and efficient financial planning software
12/13/2019
7 things that will affect next stage of banking's evolution
Though many banks have struck deals with fintechs, those partnerships appear increasingly under threat, with some firms suggesting they no longer need or want to deal with what they see as slow traditional players despite their entrenched advantages.
12/13/2019
Apis Partners closes Fund II at $550 million with focus on FinTech
Apis Growth Fund II expects to make equity investments of between $30 million
12/12/2019
Copenhagen FinTech aims at more continuous presence in Singapore
This Board comprises leading strategic financial experts from around the world.
12/12/2019
Taking the lead on climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the world's reference science group for climate change – says that human activity has caused the global temperature to reach 1℃ above pre-industrial levels.
12/12/2019
First digital bank begins operations in Tunisia
Bank ABC looks forward to Tunisian government eventually implementing the state’s plans to digitise all administrative services.
12/12/2019
14 Hottest Digital-First Challenger Banks by Country in Europe
The European banking industry is undergoing massive changes, and the following companies are driving that transformation.
12/12/2019
ERI Banking Software and the Rise of Digitalisation in Asia’s Wealth Industry
The company’s mission is to support the growth of its clients via the product and the teams and thereby enable them to monitor and control their operating costs.
12/11/2019
ADIB launches "Smartbanking" digital proposition for millennial customers
Pioneering proposition is aimed at large digitally-savvy population and centred around the millennials' lifestyle
12/11/2019
Visa partners with Global Processing Services to grow FinTech startups scaling in Asia Pacific
GPS is best known for providing the ‘tech behind the tech’ for many of the UK and Singapore’s most notable challenger brands, including Revolut, Railsbank, and Starling.
12/11/2019
Absa data analytics team wins big at global awards
Customer360 (C360) was developed to ensure a single point of access to various analytical models that provide key insights across the banking spectrum.
12/10/2019
KFH invests strongly in banking innovation and FinTech: CEO
The panel discussion discussed the current landscape of Islamic banking and its future trends.
12/10/2019
Impact Investing’s Solid 2019 Isn’t Due to Gods of Virtue, but Rather Strong Performance in Tech Stocks
Big banks and financial firms have been adding so-called responsible investing products while at the same time there’s debate whether investors should seek profits, a greater good, or a combination of both.
12/10/2019
Nucoro completes first wealth management project in the insurance sector
Launching under a new brand name, Opsion, SRC were able to add an additional revenue stream and new clients, operating as a disruptive challenger in the retail asset management sector, without sacrificing the established expertise of its main business and
12/09/2019
Nets Trials Face Payments in Copenhagen
Around 1,000 people – all working at Vibenshuset, an office community of 25 companies in Copenhagen – can sign up to participate in the pilot.
12/09/2019
Russia’s Tinkoff Bank launches ‘super-app’ in Europe
The super-app is both our own version of the App Store, with its own mini-apps, and the first WeChat-like app in the Russian or any European financial market, featuring products and services from our partners.