07/10/2019
Abu Dhabi Global Market welcomes digital bank applications to its international financial centre
Welcomes local and global applications to establish digital banks in its International Financial Centre based in Abu Dhabi
Innovation & Startups
07/10/2019
Opera founded startup OPay raises $50M for mobile finance in Nigeria
OPay will use the capital (which wasn’t given a stage designation) primarily to grow its digital finance business in Nigeria—Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy.
07/10/2019
Temenos Recognized as a Leader in Digital Banking Engagement Report
‘Temenos is a good choice for banks looking for state-of-the-art business capabilities, forward-looking architecture, and a vendor willing to co-design with them,’ states the report
07/10/2019
Brazil's BTG Pactual Streamlines Digital Onboarding with Jumio
Jumio’s Identity Verification solution helps Latin America’s largest investment bank vet new online clients and fight online fraud
07/09/2019
Data mastery - A foundational pivot for digital transformation
This finding underscores the importance of the “data mastery” pivot, which we view as one of the foundational pivots in a digital transformation effort.
07/09/2019
Ethical technology use in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
CEO leadership needed
07/09/2019
KPMG launches a new Insight Centre in Lagos to help with digitalisation
As a number of experts look to analyse Nigeria’s position as the leading economy in Africa and a drive of future growth, KPMG has been particularly vocal in its take on the situation.
07/08/2019
Collaboration of six Nordic banks results in joint KYC company
The banks' top priority in collaborating has been to develop a Nordic platform with standardized processes for handling KYC data
07/08/2019
What’s next on the road to digital innovation?
South Africa’s small businesses face a number of challenges: a declining economy, skills shortages and more.
07/05/2019
Seba Crypto Cools Heels on Bank License
Buehler even toyed with the idea of hiring British band Coldplay to mark Seba's emergence as Switzerland's first crypto bank, these people said.
07/05/2019
Fintech's Big Bang
And if there’s one truism of the past two decades, it is that digital disruption – to paraphrase the world’s digital disruptor par excellence – moves fast and breaks things.
07/04/2019
Banks need to embrace Open Banking-enabled consortia business models, says Finastra
The demand for non-bank corporate treasury services has seen an upsurge amongst treasures, as treasurers look to leverage technology to drive value and enable real-time automation in payments.
07/04/2019
The digital nomads are coming and bringing economic benefit with them
Studies by the world’s major consultancies show that flexible workspaces now make up about 8% of global office space, rising to 30% by 2030
07/03/2019
Arca’s Dorman Explains Digital Realm
Traders Magazine editor John D’Antona Jr. recently caught up Dorman and discussed his firm, how he transferred his expertise to the digital domain and the state of the market.
07/02/2019
Silverlake and Japanese Fintech Launch Mytheo Robo Advisor
60,000 Japanese investors as users and US$300 million in assets
07/02/2019
DFSA accepts four FinTech firms into its 2019 regulatory sandbox Summer Cohort
The successful firms intend to engage in equity crowdfunding with tokenisation of the equities, the operation of a blockchain-enabled property crowdfunding platform, and the facilitation of blockchain-enabled supply chain financing.
07/01/2019
Standard Chartered launches Women in Tech Accelerator in the UAE
UAE-based “Womentum” is part of a global Women In tech programme initiative that is already live in Standard Chartered New York, Kenya, Pakistan and Nigeria.
07/01/2019
Bank for International Settlements to establish innovation hub centre in Singapore
The Singapore centre will be the third one established, following hubs in Basel and Hong Kong, BIS added.
07/01/2019
KFH wins ‘Best Bank in Kuwait’ Award 2019
A team of editors, journalists and researchers analyze the above criteria in conjunction with Euromoney market knowledge and research before decisions are made by its editorial committee.
07/01/2019
BIS to set up Innovation Hub for central banks
The role of the Hub will be to identify and develop in-depth insights into critical trends in technology