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Fintech firms look to Ireland

Ireland could be a location choice for firms in the burgeoning financial technology (fintech) industry post- Brexit, according to a report from KPMG.

Hedge funds turn to dark web to gain an edge

Business intelligence firms are scouring the darkest corners of the internet to help their hedge fund clients

IT’s future value proposition

IT is poised to play a new, more strategic role in companies, one that moves beyond support to create business value through technology-based business innovation and digital initiatives.

Beware of bitcoin, warns Lombard Odier

Volatility and rising competition are both fundamental concerns.

How Banks Can Keep Up With Digital Disruptors

There are very few industries in which CEOs do not live in fear of digital disruption.

AI May Soon Replace Even the Most Elite Consultants

Allows some of UBS’s European wealth-management clients to ask Alexa certain financial and economic questions.

St. James’s Place – "Tech companies flying high"

In fact, US technology stocks had their own frigatebird moment back in 2000, reaching a stock market peak on 27 March of that year. Last week the S&P 500 Technology index, having risen 20% this year, finally topped that high for the first time.

The crowdfunding “phoenix”: The rise of a ‘trend’ to a ‘sector’ and the challenges ahead

Alternative finance and funding models such as crowdfunding, online marketplace, crowdinvesting and crowdlending are gaining an exponential growth each year across the world.

Nimble fintechs are going to sweep away the old banks – right? Wrong

What we also heard – that may surprise the champions of change – is that many of the challenges faced by fintechs and the old guard are the same.

AI will be ubiquitous in 2020 but overhyped in 2017

AI is seen as augmenting humans’ work rather than displacing it.

The challengers’ challenge – fintech coming of age

What makes infrastructure ‘legacy’?

Citi's Digital Growth in Asia

A standout performer was Citi’s consumer bank in the region.

The 50-year Banking Revolution by Geoff Cook

However, I would argue that the anniversary to really celebrate didn’t happen until five years later, when a technological transformation profoundly changed our interaction with cash and credit.

How to profit from the rise of robots who'll make your tea: As spending on robotics is expected to soar, here's how to invest

By 2030 it is predicted up to a third of British jobs could be done by robots

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