Managers of Wealth Fintech

How banks can transform from digital laggards to digital leaders

Our Global banking outlook 2018 finds banks seek to become digitally mature and are driven by innovation instead of regulation.

Cryptocurrency – Only Part of a Monetary Revolution by Gary Dugan

To my mind cryptocurrency is the world’s attempt to deal with three issues.

How are major banking institutions getting on with AI?

Banks are leading the way in artificial intelligence as a means to reduce spending and risk. We look into technology and labor implications of these advances in the sector.

Hedge fund giant Klarman trashes bitcoin, says cryptocurrencies are ‘tulip bulbs for the digital age’

Baupost's Seth Klarman says the volatility of cryptocurrencies detracts from their ability to be a "medium of exchange."

Amazon Alexa will let you check bank balances, order food and more with 10,000 skills

Designed to hang on your every word, the challenge they all face is to remain genuinely useful once the novelty of a talking smart speaker wears off.

Open Banking: Redefining the Private Banker

The Open Banking Evolution will give customers visibility into all their accounts, regardless of whether they’re with different providers.

Four Reasons Why Cryptocurrencies Will Continue To Crash

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, crashed below $10,000 for a coin today.

Beware if you are a speculator: What wealth managers are telling their clients on Bitcoin

Bumpy start to 2018

Coutts slams cryptocurrencies

Syed’s comments come as the prices of some cryptocurrencies have soared recently with wealth managers and private banks divided on the issue.

Nick Leeson Sounds Bitcoin Alarm

Leeson started his second career as a keynote speaker about risk and return in finance.

Ask Alexa by Penny Lovell

I will personally cash in my life savings to buy shares in the first company which comes up with a digital assistant that can pull off that miracle.

AI chatbots are rapidly changing the ways of banking in the world

The biggest Hong Kong bank, HSBC Holdings, is starting the New Year with a new chatbot

The perfect storm: Managing investment data by Stephen Hulse

Despite the approaching storm, many firms are reluctant to invest in better data management capabilities.

Robo-advisor platform revenues to surge: report

The report further indicates that the increase of more interested parties will urge total assets under management by robo-advisors upwards to $4.1 trillion in 2022, from an estimated $330 billion in 2017.

How Blockchain is Banking the Unbanked

It may be hard to believe, but two billion people in the world still do not have a bank account

Avaloq's Fernandez: No Time to Lose in Asia

Francisco Fernandez, chairman of Swiss banking IT firm Avaloq, won’t go idle, despite having relinquished his operative responsibilities

Dimon changes tune on bitcoin, says 'blockchain is real'

Dimon's skeptical view of bitcoin has been well documented.

Private equity industry need to keep up with digitisation: PwC study

More than 80 per cent of PE houses believe that digitisation is critical for making their portfolio companies ‘future ready’

Avaloq’s chairman streamlines his role to focus on China expansion and possible listing

Francisco Fernandez, who also founded the Switzerland-based firm, has handed over the CEO job and is looking east to the ‘innovative companies’ in China’s financial sector

Open banking is about to launch - what does it means for your data?

The new breed of banking platforms such as Atom, Starling and Monzo will now be able to get an even broader view of their customers’ financial lives

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