Fintech innovation and startups

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Disruption, destruction, harmony and creation; Fintech’s new frontier – a place to discuss the cutting edge of innovation.

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An Incubator for Trading Strategies

GLG Partners has hired a head of machine learning. Financial News reports that this is a new role entirely. The article points out that the volume of data that GLG is utilizing is growing. A similar ...

25 Apr 2017
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Why EBA hasn’t understood PSD 2!

On Monday 27 March 2017 the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs held a Scrutiny Session on the Final Report on Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on Strong Customer Aut...

07 Apr 2017
Bo Harald

Real Time Economy for EU - How?

Previous posts have aimed at describing the big picture: •https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/13835/real-time-economy-for-eu---big-picture The very compelling Why - the Mission •https://www.finextra...

20 Mar 2017
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What are the Barriers to FinTech Investment?

Is 2017 truly a year of investment for fintech innovation as has been suggested? A report at the end of last year by law firm, Mayer Brown, suggested that financial services firms are keen to make an ...

15 Mar 2017
Michael Pearson

Assessing the Value Created by Fintech Investment

The amount of investment in venture capital backed fintech companies is well documented but how much value is being created and how does that relate to the value of established financial services comp...

14 Mar 2017
Michael Pearson

Innovative Start-Ups: A Comparison of Metro Bank and Funding Circle

If you were investing in a new financial services business in 2010, would you have chosen to invest in a multichannel bank or a disruptive fintech? Metro Bank and Funding Circle from the UK provide us...

28 Feb 2017
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Tap-n-PIN mystery

Calling payment industry experts for help, as I am at a loss here. Overseas cardholders from several countries can do “tap & PIN” in the UK to make payment transactions above the contactless floor...

23 Feb 2017
Henry Hilska

PSD2: Challenges and promises for the future of banking

So, what happened to banking and how did it go from being among the leaders in the development and implementation of technology to the image of being too big and too clumsy and the target of many, sma...

05 Jan 2017
Michael Carter

The Million Dollar Question You Needn't Be Uber To Know

What is a business actually worth? Although it is deceptively simple, this may be the most important question you can ever know as a business owner or an advisor. Despite this, the vast majority of bu...

18 Aug 2016
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RegTech - The Rising New Flavour of FinTech Innovation

A highly trending and often-heard topic in the financial world is FinTech. And not surprisingly, since the very concept is based on employing disruptive technology to the challenges of the financial w...

14 Jul 2016
Abhishek Chatterjee

SIBOS,2015 - An Inflection point for transaction banks and Fintech

This year's SIBOS hosted in Singapore was a wakeup call for all the transaction banker to focus on redefining value delivered to customer. An excellent keynote from Piyush Gupta, CEO DBS group stresse...

30 Dec 2015
Abhishek Chatterjee

Digitally inclusive society - Creating Value at Bottom of the Pyramid

With the rapid advancement of technology in developed countries, we run the risk of creating a Digitally divided society. In one hand Nexus of forces (SMAC) & IoT are changing the urban life like ...

06 Jun 2015

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