Managers of Wealth Fintech

Top Tech Predictions for 2020

As investors continue to remain optimistic on the prospects of 5G wireless connectivity, demand for chips is widely anticipated to rise this year.

PM: St. Kitts and Nevis Continues to Transform Through Information Technology

In 2016, St. Kitts and Nevis was awarded for its major improvements in the ICT sector during the 14th World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium held in Botswana.

Citi's investment arm to hire 2,500 coders

JP Morgan is on track to spend $11bn on technology this year, while Bank of America has said it spends about $10bn on tech.

BNY Mellon ramps up drive to innovate in the Middle East with new office

The principal representative for BNY Mellon’s new ADGM office is Anthony Habis, who is also head of client management, Middle East and Africa and regional head for MEA at BNY Mellon.

Africa Data Centres To Build New Facility In Johannesburg

With the build now underway, Matagne confirms that while certain parts of the project will be built on-site, others like the critical plant room are prefabricated off-site and integrated during construction.

Worldwide Data Centre Hardware And Software Spending Set To Reach Over $93bn To End The Decade

Over the whole decade, average annual spending growth for data centre was 4% and for cloud services was 56%.

Wealth Dynamix Teams Up with Management Consulting Leader

The partnership builds on ambitious global growth from Wealth Dynamix that has seen the firm open up offices in North America, Europe and Asia in recent months and sign-up a major global French financial institution and two private banks in the UK and Gen

Centana’s Eric Byunn: The cloud is new territory for many banks

Bank Innovation spoke with Byunn on the evolution of the industry in 2020.

Big Investment in African Tech Set to Continue in 2020

The same week, OPay, the fintech platform from Opera (that is aggressively moving into the ride-hailing market across Nigeria with ORide) secured $120 million Series B investment from Chinese investors.

Li Ka-shing leads funding round for Hong Kong fintech startup

MioTech uses AI to evaluate ESG investments for fund managers

How Big Data Will Impact Real Estate Buying, Selling and Developing

The emerging Big-Data-fueled technologies can provide new insights and approaches to how luxury real estate is developed, priced, sold and bought

Here are 10 African startups to watch in 2020

The race is on for the first locally-built African super app — that is, one that offers users seamless access to a number of services, often across several verticals.

Sifted’s choice: The nine rising UK fintech apps to watch

London's banking unicorns hog the limelight but perhaps not for long. Here are some of the UK's most promising fintech apps — from credit card providers to online will writers and real estate marketplaces.

How Artificial Intelligence is transforming ESG data and indices

It is not a coincidence that ESG investment has taken root in mainstream finance during the Digital Age.

Jack Ma’s Ant Financial seeks digital banking license in Singapore

Winning a license would pit Ant against traditional incumbents such as DBS Group Holdings Ltd. and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. in the growing market for digital banking in Southeast Asia.

New innovation: Biometric facial recognition launched by ATFX takes FX trading into effective future

During recent months, major banks and financial institutions have begun to refine their biotechnology development, largely as a proactive step to move the data security and client safety arena into the next generation.

Digital banking: Top regulatory trends revealed

In removing two long standing barriers to entry – access to bank data, and payments infrastructure – the directive emboldens disruptors further, enabling a variety of new business models that cut across industry lines and provider types.

Emirates NBD completes third phase of international core banking systems upgrade

By end-2020, all Emirates NBD entities and markets will be consolidated onto one single, updated core banking platform, enabling the bank to offer new financial services more rapidly across all markets while reducing global IT costs.

Islamic Fintech to Advance More in 2020

Aside from what is mentioned, there are three other promising areas including blockchain and crypto, Robo-advisory and personal finance management and lending.

Saudi Arabia could be on the brink of a FinTech revolution

A young, tech-savvy population offers a source of business and a ready talent pool for FinTech firms

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