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The Netherlands' central bank, De Nederlandsche bank (DNB) could be planning to develop its own digital currency based on blockchain technology.
29 March 2016
Move over payments, London's hottest fintech scene is now investment management, according to a report from PwC and Startupbootcamp which claims a host of upstarts are transforming the way money is managed.
24 March 2016
A multi-million pound promotional blitz has boosted awareness of and confidence in the UK's struggling current account switching service (Cass), claims Bacs.
15 March 2016
Is London's much-lauded fintech scene overhyped? New figures suggest that the value of UK and Ireland financial technology investments grew last year at a far slower rate that the general tech scene.
11 March 2016
The rise of electronic payments over the last five years has added nearly $300 billion to GDP across 70 countries and created millions of jobs, claims a new Visa-commissioned study.
10 March 2016
2015 was the year that financial technology entered the mainstream, claims a new report from KPMG and CB Insights which estimates that VC-backed fintech firms around the world secured $13.8 billion in funding as they began having a serious impact in every area of banking and insurance.
09 March 2016
Australia could introduce a digital version of its dollar, a senior exec at the country's central bank says, although any state-backed digital currency is in the distant future and likely to circulate in parallel with old fashioned notes and coins.
25 February 2016
Upcoming rules for bilateral clearing of OTC derivatives that will see a major increase in the number of collateral movements between market participants could see surging operational costs become "unsustainably burdensome", warns a new whitepaper.
23 February 2016
Deutsche Bank has become the latest financial services giant to call on its industry to hug the hoard of upstart fintech rivals close, concluding that co-operation, not competition, is the wisest approach in the business-to-business payments arena.
10 February 2016
A Russian hacking group is infecting bank IT systems with malware that lets it hide fraudulent ATM transactions by automatically rolling back the withdrawals so that balances appear unchanged.
09 February 2016
The world is on a slow but steady march towards digital money, according to a report from Citi and Imperial College London which says that the move away from cash will bring hundreds of millions of people into the formal economy.
26 January 2016
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has pitched itself as the coordinator of an industry-wide investigation into whether distributed ledger technology is the answer to "certain limitations" in the post-trade process.
25 January 2016
The rise of electronic trading in fixed income markets could lead to liquidity issues in times of stress, according to new research from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
22 January 2016
The Netherlands has the potential to become a fintech hub, but only if the country's regulatory framework is overhauled and banks, startups and government improve cooperation, according to a new report.
There were 427 fintech mergers and acquisitions in 2015, worth a combined $64 billion, double the value of deals the previous year, according to figures pulled together by Berkery Noyes.
21 January 2016
The financial services industry is going modular, with technology making it easier for customers to buy from multiple providers, opening up a multi-billion dollar opportunity for new entrants, according to report from management consultancy Oliver Wyman.
Customers who start using mobile banking are less likely to leave their provider and will use more products and make more transactions, creating more revenue, according to research from Fiserv.
19 January 2016
British financial services firms expect IT to be the main area to see an increase in capital spending over the next year as the industry braces itself for the fintech revolution.
18 January 2016
Fintech providers could pose a real threat to banks within five years, according to new research which shows that by 2020 half of consumers expect to use a technology outfit for at least one service their bank would usually provide.
13 January 2016
Lending firms dominate the fintech funding scene, pulling in nearly two thirds of all investment in digital banking startups in 2015, according to CB Insights.
07 January 2016
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