03/06/2017
Africa’s first dot com millionaire
It was the first ever full-security encrypted ecommerce web server commercially available outside of the United States.
Innovation & Startups
03/06/2017
Robots are wealth creators and taxing them is illogical
Governments can offset lost jobs by investing in education and retraining
03/06/2017
The Fintech Class of 2017
Top 12 teams reflect current trending sectors in fintech
03/06/2017
Hellenic Bank innovation lab bears fruit
The Cyprus-based FI has been working on Open APIs that will let third party software developers kickstart their product development.The Cyprus-based FI has been working on Open APIs that will let third party software developers kickstart their product dev
03/06/2017
London FinTech startup Oinky raises $1m
Founded in 2015, Oinky’s mission is simple yet ambitious.
03/05/2017
Paul Chapman's Moneytree app cracks open Japan's consumer finance market
Start-ups and fintech, while belatedly growing, remain a modest part of the Japanese economy
03/03/2017
BNP Paribas Wants to Innovate Smarter and Harder
Startups don’t have the data we have, and for them it is pretty expensive.
03/03/2017
Bank of Japan exec warns FS firms against leaving DLT expertise to tech providers
The exec says that "without any deep understanding in the technology, it is difficult to constantly provide high-value-added services and respond properly and responsibly to any problems".
03/03/2017
PolicyPal raises funding from 500 Startups, joins MAS’ FinTech Regulatory Sandbox
The two companies will make their insurance products available for consumers via PolicyPal’s mobile app in a period of next six months.
03/03/2017
Nordea launches PSD2-inspired Open Banking portal
The bank’s Liisa Kanniainen has written for NFC World’s What’s New in Payments report on what the new European PSD2 and GDPR regulations mean for the future role of banks.
03/03/2017
This founder left his $4 billion company before the IPO because he had an even better idea
He made his stripes as an early Google employee, joining the search giant in 2003.
03/02/2017
Inside the Royal Bank of Canada’s machine-learning labs
This is all the result of machine learning, an application of artificial intelligence that lets a computer think and learn on its own.
03/01/2017
Lux Capital closes $400 million fund to back startups inventing the future
The firm has also backed several neuroscience startups including Kallyope, Halo Neuroscience and Cala Health.
03/01/2017
Citi Launches APIs for Treasury Services
API based integration is one of the biggest topics across the industry.
03/01/2017
Netwealth dominating platform sector
Last year saw OneVue refresh its entire dashboard to encourage planner efficiency by making it customisable to user needs
03/01/2017
Paris Stepping Into London’s FinTech Shoes?
In addition to Fintech – both in their classic understanding of technological innovation applied to the finance industry to more disruptive models
03/01/2017
Capgemini launches Applied Innovation Exchange in Singapore
The AIE framework helps organisations foster a structured approach to drive the innovation process across four phases—Discover, Devise, Deploy, and Sustain.
03/01/2017
Scotiabank to Invest $1 Billion in Digital Technology
Decreasing activity at branches and the rising popularity of mobile banking apps seem to have driven the bank toward digital technology.
03/01/2017
JPMorgan software does in seconds what took lawyers 360,000 hours
A new era of automation is now in overdrive as cheap computing power converges with fears of losing customers to startups
02/28/2017
How banks are embracing the digital revolution
The benefits of transitioning to the cloud and going digital are becoming too obvious to ignore