06/30/2017
Lawtech start-ups collect £16m in backing
According to the report, 45% of the lawtech start-ups were founded by former lawyers
Innovation & Startups
06/30/2017
Jack Ma's shadow looms large for southeast Asia's banks
Southeast Asia's banks have long been spared the competitive onslaught that saw their peers in China cede that nation's giant payments market to Ant Financial and Tencent Holdings.
06/29/2017
Nova joins the robot revolution at Nordea
Ultimately, it is expected that Nova will will be able to guide customers to a secure environment with log-in, enabling them to perform tasks and/or obtain advice there.
06/29/2017
Former Intel Capital executive Deepak Gupta launches tech start-up fund
Deepak Gupta tech start-up fund—WEH Ventures—is targeting a corpus of Rs40 crore and is expecting a final close in 9-12 months
06/28/2017
HitPay introduces HitPay Keyboard payment solution
First payment keyboard in SEA to facilitate person-to-person cash transfers within any chat app
06/28/2017
Fintech Push at BNP Paribas Asia
The French bank also said it expects to be among the top five private banks in the APAC region within the next three to five years.
06/28/2017
Luxembourg and Singapore fintech hubs connect
The LHoFT and LATTICE80 agree to cooperate in a number of areas, including the exchange of information on innovation projects
06/28/2017
Hong Kong gets its own Fintech Association
The Association is organised and led by the community for the community through a series of committees.
06/28/2017
Australia and Malaysia build fintech bridge
Ranjit said that the cooperation agreement is an important milestone for Malaysia’s digital finance sector
06/27/2017
Hogan Lovells opens fintech knowledge portal
There is information overload coming out of the legal industry - most acute with GCs, who just want a trusted, useable source.
06/27/2017
Tata Trusts takes digital route for philanthropy
The aim of Tata Trusts is to eventually make more women generate income and help them become rural entrepreneurs.
06/26/2017
House of Fraser shops for IT innovation with Capgemini
As part of the new contract, Capgemini will extend its current remit with House of Fraser in order to support the retailer’s ongoing IT simplification strategy.
06/26/2017
European savings and co-operative banks join screen-scraping row
The suggestion has led to an uproar among mature fintech startups, who have lobbied hard for a reversal of the decision, claiming that the reforms will provide banks with the means to control what data is shared, putting new entrants at a disadvantage.
06/26/2017
Fiserv partners with fintech startup to launch digital adviser
Bank Innovation and Fiserv developed the accelerator program with support from multiple participants including financial institutions and industry mentors.
06/23/2017
India's Biggest E-Commerce Merger at Risk as Billionaire Objects
Flipkart had earlier told Snapdeal that it wants all the startup’s investors to agree to deal terms as a precondition of the transaction
06/22/2017
Robos get the press, but adviser tech is getting the money
Take the $140 million in funding that Silicon Valley-based Addepar recently raised from sources including SpaceX backer Valor Equity Partners.
06/21/2017
Atom Bank gets £30 million from the government as Philip Hammond pledges investment boost
Banks are required to maintain a certain amount of capital to secure their lending and other assets.
06/21/2017
KAL Launches Open Banking Technology Ahead of Europe’s PSD2 Initiative
PSD2 will transform the European financial sector, establishing what is widely known as Open APIs for banking.
06/20/2017
Goldman Sachs is ready to disrupt the financial industry’s startups
Goldman has traditionally aided mega companies and governments in raising money, but now it’s going after consumer loans ranging from $3,500 to $30,000.
06/20/2017
TechPreneur Africa and Abu Dhabi sign fintech start-up support agreement
The agreement means that African innovators and fintech start-ups can now apply to ADGM's regulatory laboratory sandbox.