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Here’s how blockchain will redefine banking

The blockchain has the potential to reinvent banking in the future.

'Insurtech' should help lower premiums: AIG chief

Duperreault says underwriters now must become data scientists too

Saxo Bank publishes H1 2017 results

Clients’ collateral deposits continued to rise to a record high of DKK 98.3 billion and despite low volatility the operating income for the group reached DKK 1.56 billion compared to DKK 1.46 billion in 2016.

Who is the sucker when robot trades against robot?

Quant funds struggle for returns as sector becomes more crowded

Path Solutions selected Number One Best Selling Islamic Banking Software Provider in 2017 by IBS

The 2017 Islamic Banking Sales League Table which ranks niche system suppliers in the Islamic financial services segment, was released in the August issue of IBS Journal.

Defined benefit pensions' demise linked to robo's rise

Some big name financial brands have recently become involved in the robo-advice market.

The way forward is digital, says UOB's Wee Ee Cheong

This growth presents immense opportunities for business, trade and investment, Mr Wee said.

Singapore Fintech Hub Will Open India Office

Founded in November, Lattice80 says it is the world’s biggest fintech hub

The existential challenge of AI

As AI technology evolves into artificial super intelligence (ASI), it will erode many job markets, Hames warns.

The future of advice lies in finding the right blend of technology and the personal touch: HUB24

Along with the advantage of minimising clerical work, technology tools are also allowing advisers more time to develop the relationships that drive their businesses

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.

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