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Top three financial technologies to watch in 2019 by Leo Chen, Calastone

This trend is happening across Asia-Pacific; the trading value of Australia’s ETF industry also hit a record high of $3.9 billion in October.

IBM’s Top Trends that Will Impact the Banking Industry

Top trends IBM sees impacting the banking industry

My hot and happening SA startup picks for 2019

Last year the startup took part in Google’s Launchpad Accelerator, launched its bid for the US market and in 2018 landed funding in a round led by Nedbank Capital (see here, here and here).

Gold vs crypto: Who wins this time?

Our award-winning analyst has all the crypto news including Davos, Tron and a war with the yellow metal.

Broadridge Among FORTUNE Magazine’s 2019 ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’

Broadridge is a global Fintech leader providing technology, communications, and data and analytics solutions to financial firms in capital markets, wealth and asset management, and corporate issuers.

The Year of the Client Experience Bjorn Widerstedt, BLACK DIAMOND

The good news is that the advisor technology industry continues to innovate on behalf of advisors, keeping them one step ahead.

What Do Tech's Most Powerful Women Have in Common?

When the IBM Watson Personality API analyzed these female tech leader's words, it identified nine traits as being most dominant.

Investment Management: Entering Choppier And Shallower Waters

The underpinning assumption was that if you didn’t work on Wall Street, you needed to buy products from a manager who had wise advice and valuable insight.

Improving Product Agility is Now a Priority for 51% of European Banks

Survey respondents are primarily focused on opening services to third-party developers and maintaining own product offerings while becoming an aggregator

7orca Asset Management goes live on IHS Markit's thinkFolio

thinkFolio enables 7orca to perform portfolio modeling, cash management and order management for its clients’ portfolios and to connect electronically to FIX trading venues for execution.

Technology sector growth grows at its slowest rate for three years, says KPMG

Companies also expressed concern about ongoing trade issues, with uncertainty caused by Brexit leading to some businesses saying that they had delayed or held back investment in their business.

Stairway to digital heaven: when transformation crosses platform

One may think that going digital means getting digital tools, configuring them and click a button.

‘Tech and touch’: The future of asset management

The changing nature of customer expectations and how balancing technology with bespoke face-to-face advice will separate the good advisers from the best ones.

Regulator to ease rule for wealth management startups offering robo-advisors

The deregulation is part of the government's push to give more support to financial technology firms, the Financial Services Commission said in a statement.

Data provider boosts private fund information via strategic partnership »

“The ability for eVestment users to access both PitchBook’s fund performance data as well as PitchBook Benchmarks offers unprecedented transparency into VC and PE asset class returns.

RippleNet surpasses 200 customers with 13 financial institutions joining recently

The CEO, Brad Garlinghouse claimed at least 2 new customers are signing up on RippleNet every week, while also seeing a 350% increase in live payments within last year.

London raked £1.8bn in tech funding last year, almost double its next closest rival

Fintech remained London’s most attractive sector of the tech industry, scoring more than £1bn in funding and playing host to over 90 per cent of the UK’s financial startups that raised throughout the year.

10 Takeaways from the Fintech Ecosystem Playbook

Three relevant examples are Switzerland with cryptocurrency and blockchain, Malaysia with Islamic banking, and Stockholm with payments, the report notes.

Is Digital Banking A Sexy Label, or Basic Human Right?

Private banks or wealth management firms used to be an exclusive club for the affluent.

2018’s Digital Engagement Leaders in Asset Management - Robust Personalization and Differentiation

While we saw a number of notable digital experiences, five asset management firms rose to the top.

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