08/15/2019
Credit Suisse Asset Management invests in Solve Advisors
The resulting data is used by its buy-side, sell-side, accounting and valuation firm clients for price discovery, trade idea generation and to streamline analysis.
Innovation & Startups
08/14/2019
Hong Kong’s financial technology is getting traction
In fact, Hong Kong is one of the five ecosystems with the fastest-growing number of startups in the world.
08/14/2019
Innovation held back by executive pay plans
A survey of FTSE 350 remuneration plans makes worrying discovery
08/14/2019
African fintech showcase
The reason we exist is to close the information gap where private companies are concerned on the African continent.
08/13/2019
Digital healthcare firm secures GBP650k funding for patient app
It provides digital triage, supports personalised rehabilitation programmes and allows clinicians to monitor patients’ progress and access patient-reported data and feedback.
08/13/2019
British and Canadian growth funds team up for first time to invest in Vancouver-based tech company
The two private-sector funds aim to invest long-term, taking minority ownership stakes in small and medium-sized companies looking to grow larger.
08/13/2019
Hong Kong’s financial technology is getting traction
The HKMA has also opened an application programming interface (APl) to enable startups to develop their own applications (apps).
08/12/2019
IT wrap: Future-readiness key for information technology companies
The only way an IT company can stay a step ahead, is to invest in technology and create products and solutions that clients would need in the future
08/12/2019
Russian robots to work in Oman’s National Bank
Russian robot manufacturer Promobot has announced that its robots will be employed at an Oman bank.
08/12/2019
Northern Trust launches pricing engine for securities lending
Northern Trust continues to invest in emerging technologies to bring enhanced value to our clients,” says Pete Cherecwich,
08/12/2019
Nigerian Edmund Olotu’s TechAdvance raises $1m from Bahrain investor
Ventureburn sought comment from the company on its expansion plans, among other questions, but had not received a response at the time of publication.
08/12/2019
Unleashing the Potenal of Fintech in Banking
The relationship between banks and fintech has developed from skepticism to collaboration as users are already enjoying the enhanced customer experience.
08/11/2019
InfoTrack named a top 10 leading innovator in technology
The award measured top innovation initiatives implemented in the last 12 months.
08/09/2019
Singapore's Digital Banks: Davids vs Goliaths?
The country's easily accessible digital infrastructure has also enabled traditional banks to deploy sophisticated solutions that are often the strength of digital banks elsewhere.
08/08/2019
Technology firms eye sweet spot in Indian digital payment market
Buoyed by the big opportunities, investors from China and the US are making a beeline for India, with companies like Alibaba-backed Paytm looking to take on US retail giant Walmart-owned PhonePe.
08/08/2019
Sweden's Klarna becomes biggest fintech firm in Europe
‘Shop now, pay later’ payments operator valued at $5.5bn after fresh round of investor funding
08/08/2019
How does MiFID II and FinTech work?
It did achieve some of those aims – BATS Trading now runs a quarter of equities investments in some European markets and high frequency trading is now standard – but it also left a bit to be desired.
08/07/2019
London is now home to the world’s first A.I bar that serves drinks using facial recognition
With the help of a facial recognition system developed by DataSparQ that puts customers in an ‘intelligently virtual’ queue, customers can now get their order served to them based on when they arrived versus how loud they can shout.
08/07/2019
Northern Trust launches new investment performance reporting tool
The introduction of persona-based set up enables speed of implementation while delivering the most relevant information to each user.
08/07/2019
MAS Launches Sandbox Express for Faster Market Testing of Innovative Financial Services
Eligible applicants can begin market testing in the pre-defined environment of Sandbox Express within 21 days of applying to MAS instead of taking a longer time to customise their sandboxes under the existing FinTech Regulatory Sandbox.