05/17/2017
CFTC Announces Innovation Lab for Fintechs
The plan will give fintechs greater access to the commission—encouraging them to ask regulatory questions and offer feedback as to which regulations they find the most prohibitive.
Innovation & Startups
05/16/2017
Notion Capital outs new $80M ‘growth equity’ fund to invest in enterprise Saas and cloud portfolio
He wanted Notion to diversify its LPs away from being so reliant on the EU.
05/16/2017
Transatlantic success for client reporting firm
Victory at the 2017 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards was a first for the company in the US.
05/16/2017
Al Baraka Banking Group and Flat6Labs to support entrepreneurs and start-ups
Al Baraka Banking Group and Flat6Labs have signed an MOU to collaborate in a series of activities including creating the start-up and entrepreneurship eco-system.
05/16/2017
InvestEdge Launches Groundbreaking Digital Investment Marketplace
Recent research has shown there is a new and urgent demand for customized advice and solutions from third party providers.
05/15/2017
Alibaba Makes Its First FinTech Investment In Hong Kong
Qupital's aim is to address this problem.
05/15/2017
Fintech lender gets a boost as Portuguese bank puts £45 million on its platform
Lending is funded by high-net worths and institutional investors who are registered with MarketInvoice.
05/15/2017
China Central Bank Turning to Big Data for Financial Supervision
The central bank will step up use of measures such as big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing to increase its capability to recognize, prevent and reduce cross-sector and cross-market financial risks.
05/15/2017
How Technology Can Solve America’s Twin Pension Crises
Innovations in the financial technology sector can help us meet both of these challenges — if we make smart policy changes.
05/11/2017
RBC's new collaboration with OneEleven provides Canada's top technology startups with resources to manage and grow their businesses
This new collaboration will help OneEleven improve its ability to support the country's top startups.
05/11/2017
Mizuho Teams Up with World Innovation Lab to Roll Out New Fintech Unit
The collaboration will create new business services utilizing fintech innovations and IoT developments.
05/10/2017
500 Startups closes $15M fund to back founders in the Middle East and North Africa
Ideally this would mean increasing the size of the team to between seven and nine people to support the fund’s efforts.
05/10/2017
Synpulse, additiv ink robo-advice focused partnership
It will define and deliver an offering that will place them among the disruptors and first movers.
05/10/2017
KPMG Buys Fintech Innovation Firm
Fintech companies and solutions are reviewed and undergo a curation process in order to qualify to appear on KPMG's innovative Matchi platform.
05/10/2017
J.P. Morgan Launches Virtual Branch in China
The launch follows the successful introduction of J.P. Morgan’s Virtual Branch in India, Indonesia and Thailand.
05/10/2017
UK tech investors face loss of significant funding after Brexit
It was business as usual for UK fund managers and UK-based funds.
05/10/2017
South Africa's Mercantile Bank uses TCS' solution
The city-headquartered company used TCS Bancs Digital platform for the project.
05/10/2017
UAE SCF platform gets investment from ex-Citi CEO
The platform enables suppliers to see the status of their invoices through the mobile app/cloud system.
05/10/2017
BNY Mellon advances artificial intelligence tech across operations
BNY Mellon said 20 bots have been placed in production since the start of the year.
05/10/2017
The second wave of challenger banks
ClearBank’s core banking technology and API has been developed in accordance with ISO 20022 and is purpose-built for simple access through a single connection to multiple payment options.