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Singapore-based AI startup scoops Australian RegTech award

The event aimed to showcase innovative solutions where regulatory technology (RegTech) could be used to address regulatory challenges and problems.

AI: Banking's Trillion Dollar Shot

With smartphones underpinning the finance industry's tech push, Asia will likely see exponential growth in AI-based solutions.

Bitcoin cash and EOS added to deVere Crypto

The news comes as deVere release the findings of a new international poll in which it is revealed that 35 per cent of high net worth individuals are now already invested in or will make investments in cryptocurrencies before the end of 2018.

Why Blockchain Poses an Unusual Challenge for GDPR Compliance

Many of GDPR’s biggest mandates are fundamentally incompatible with blockchain technology. How can blockchain operators find common ground with the new regulation?

One of the Largest Banks in the Philippines is Implementing Ethereum With ConsenSys

The vast majority of individuals and even businesses rely on local remittance networks and outlets such as M Lhuillier, Cebuana Lhuillier, Palawan, and LBO to send and receive payments both domestically and internationally.

South African Investment Firm to Launch Cryptocurrency Exchange

“The cryptocurrency market is evolving at a rapid pace internationally and domestically, and is attracting both domestic and international flows.”

Kuwait Finance House Joins RippleNet for Improved Cross-Border Transactions

Kuwait Finance House is the first Kuwaiti bank to join RippleNet.

Growth for SA-developed AI cryptocurrency

Accuracy is heightened by the predictive model that encompasses nine areas of strategy, Reddy says.

Australia’s First Retail Crypto Asset Hedge Fund Will Launch This Year

There is a lack of competition among exchanges, although the recently launched CoinJar Exchange might make positive things happen in the near future.

South Africa’s Central Bank Calls Crypto ‘Cyber-Tokens’, Not Currency

The Reserve Bank has established a fintech task force to review its stance toward private cryptocurrencies

Norway's Central Bank Mulls Digital Currency as Cash Use Declines

Already, the country's DNB bank has stopped handling cash, with Trond Bentestuen, group executive vice president of wealth management and insurance at the bank, telling local media as far back as 2016, that only 6 percent of Norwegians use cash on a

Schroders invests in WeInvest

Asset management house Schroders is taking a minority equity stake in Singapore-based digital wealth services outfit WeInvest. Terms of the deal, set to be completed in June, have not been disclosed.

Japan’s Tokyo-based Bank Mitsubishi UJF Testing an In-House Digital Currency ‘MUJF Coin’

MUFG Coins is an inevitability would “overcome issues of [existing] virtual currencies” like volatility “[to] create a highly useful currency” said bank president Nobuyuki Hirano.

Union Bank introduces Robotics to power banking operations

RPA technology makes use of robots which are software tools developed to simplify business process delivery.

Asset Management is Coming to Crypto with Blox.io

Blox has announced its Blox Business platform that makes it easy for companies to manage their digital assets.

China's brick-and-mortar state bank looks to Alipay for help to embrace fintech

Alibaba affiliate will help lender with cloud computing, mobile payments and artificial intelligence-driven applications

A Money Revolution Is Underway. What Does It Mean For Central Banks?

Cryptocurrencies are creating a money revolution.

Singapore's Largest ICO Advisory Centre Launches Most Ambitious ICO Consortium in the WorldS

The oversubscribed event drew investors from around the region, many of whom already hold substantial traditional investment portfolios

Legal brief: What you need to know about ICOs

The government-supported Crypto Valley Association is now aiming to take full advantage of Switzerland’s strengths to build the world’s best blockchain ecosystem.

Robot at $390 Billion Nordea Wealth Unit Has Big Plans

Nordea wants to use Nora to help expand that figure to about 2 million people in the next 2-3 years.

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