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Challenger bank hype will result in better products, says Edison Partners

But despite the risks of an over-saturation of the market, the net effect will be to push the boundaries of product innovation, she argued.

LHV Becomes The First Bank To Provide FinTechs With Access To Instant Pound And Euro Payments

Faster Payments is directed towards fintechs and financial intermediaries, enabling them to use real-time pound and instant euro payments by just one easy integration with the LHV Connect API.

10 Banking Trends for 2020: Stormy Weather Ahead

There’s an argument to be made that 2020 could be the year in which the long post-financial-crisis recovery of the banking industry and the rise of fintechs as major industry players both get blown off course.

Protiviti publishes 2019 Finance Trends Survey Results

These behavioural changes are critical to execute more, and increasingly strategic, finance priorities while improving their service to internal customers

More China tech companies eyeing Singapore banks' lunch

Yillion and Hande groups latest known China entrants in race for digibank licence; they're part of bid led by iFast Corp

China’s Financial Services Industry Is Banking on AI

The banking industry was the biggest investor in AI-related applications, accounting for 70 percent of all market purchases.

Islamic fintechs becoming ‘global phenomenon’

The study is based on a survey of 180 companies worldwide, half of them fintechs and the others being incubators and accelerators, consultancies, financial institutions and investors, with respondent being based in the UK, Middle East, other Europe, South

Cryptocurrency May Have Emerged In The Middle East

On the other hand, there are also countries in the Middle East that are trying everything in their will not to let Cryptocurrency enter their nation.

New opportunities for blockchain use in the insurance industry

Heading into a new decade, the potential this technology has to create significant efficiencies in the handling of payments and customer data is opening up new avenues for opportunity.

Arab World Slow To Embrace Crypto, But Steadily Picking Up

A key factor when analyzing the industry in the Arab world is how nascent industry adoption works within it: From the top down.

Successful Wealth Management Firms Don’t Stand Still

First of all, the way we worked with our customers 10 or 20 years ago is not the same as our current approach.

13 Changes Coming To The Banking Industry

The banking industry is letting go of some of its traditional methods and looking at new and innovative ways to make life easier for customers.

Can US technology have another good decade? by John Redwood, Charles Stanley

The US Stock market produced the star companies of the western world in the technology area.

Tencent users report positive wealth management returns

Licaitong, Tencent's wealth management platform which sells mutual-fund and fixed-term wealth management products, said it now has over 150 million users and 38 percent of these are born after 1990.

2019 year in review: Blockchain and crypto take root in Africa

Africa’s thirst for blockchain skills has seen the rise of institutions that offer related courses.

New decade, new tech: What government agencies will prioritize in 2020

Agencies will adopt a zero trust mindset

Novia boss: Lack of profit will hurt platforms in 2020

He said that technology is the major cost for platforms, and dealing with the issue is akin to "trying to fix the engine in a car when it’s running down the fast lane on a motorway".

When Is It Ethical to Not Replace Humans with AI?

There are legitimate questions about the ethics of employing AI in place of human workers. But what about when there's a moral imperative to automate?

APAC Wealth Migration Trends Heighten Financial Crime Risk

Hong Kong: a decline in regional dominance?

‘We have a huge problem’: European tech regulator despairs over lack of enforcement

Aside from a €50 million fine that France’s privacy regulator imposed on Google in January, there have been no fines or remedies levied at a U.S. giant since the GDPR came into effect.

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