Managers of Wealth Fintech

Lucy Frew's FinTech column: December 2019

In this edition of her column, Lucy considers the legal statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts published by the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce.

Silicon Valley Gets Much Edgier Around Cloud Data Management

The company also acquired software-defined storage firm Nexenta Systems this year, and around 120 telcos already use the software at the edge.

Middle East's cloud computing landscape witnessing robust growth: report

Industry reports suggest that by the year 2020, 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud.

Top Three Trends In Wealth Management For 2020

The most visible trends are the rise of intergenerational wealth, and the growing number of high-net worth women.

This Was A Big Year For Fintech, Real Estate, Insurance, And Automation

This seems to be the year that every startup decided to become a bank.

Technology Is Serving As An Enabler For Wealth Managers

In an interview with BW Businessworld, George Mitra, CEO, Avendus Wealth Management, explained how wealth management is changing and more

Africa’s digital divide

The worldwide digital economy is currently estimated at 15.5% of global GDP.

Progressive Approach in Embracing the Digital Finance Key to Labuan IBFC’s Growth in Financial Innovation

Labuan IBFC entities employ more than 6,000 people, making the IBFC the largest employer compared to other industries in Labuan.

Considerations when Expanding into Adjacent Asset Classes and Fund Structures

The move accelerated Acadian’s expansion from traditional long/short portfolios into areas such as futures, futures on swaps, and commodity swaps.

Why P2P Could Soon Play A Leading Role In Middle East FinTech B

Since launching its SME and P2P lending services — the latter involves investors found online who take part in the financing programs in hopes of healthy returns — the situation in the region has been, as Moore put it, challenging. That’

Jersey Finance Productivity Research Highlights Importance of Technology and Wellbeing for Finance Employee

Data from Statistics Jersey shows that, in 2017, the GVA per full-time equivalent employee in financial services stood at £136,000 per year, down from £141,000 in 2016 and £206,000 a decade earlier (in 2017 values).

AI, IoT and Blockchain: Using the power of three to create business, legal and technical solutions

This includes the technology stack in addition to code and deployment techniques and examples including an entire application from code start to deployment finish.

When open banking and data privacy collide

Banks that implement such changes stand to benefit from new customer offerings and revenue sources.

Fitch sees Turkish banks suffering more asset quality erosion

Growth projections for Turkish lending next year will be driven mainly by lira-denominated loans

Banks need to be 'technology savvy, technology first', to stay competitive: Brett King

In future, King said, “Advise will be digital, distribution will be digital. Banking experiences will be digital.”

Financial threats in 2020: fintech, mobile banking and e-commerce are in the crosshairs

These events allowed Kaspersky researchers to suggest several important potential developments for the financial threat landscape for 2020.

Robo-advisor performance: November 2019

All aggressive portfolios performed well in November, but not all beat their benchmarks.

Cryptoassets and digital operational resilience by Valdis Dombrovskis

There is a broad consensus on the need to move forward with the new energy taxation framework, which is also important in the context of decarbonising our economy.

Global and digital strengths make islands well placed to support trade trends

Four in five (81%) are positive in their outlook for cross-border commerce, up four percentage points on last year, even as 65% think governments are adopting increasingly protectionist trade policies.

Q3 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Report

It will no doubt have implications as regulators seek to have KYC information shared globally.

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