Search Results for: Fintech
Chinese fintech startups receive $2.4 billion from VC firms
May 27th, 2016
Now that the Chinese stock market is falling to levels last see a year and a half ago, one fertile area for Chinese venture capitalists (VC) and others is investing in local financial technology (fintech) startups. This has driven ...
Deloitte choose Dublin as part of its FinTech initiative
May 25th, 2016
Deloitte today announced Dublin as the base for the creation of an EMEA Financial Services Blockchain Lab as part of its FinTech initiative ‘The Grid’. Deloitte Ireland has over 2,000 people in Ireland and provides audit, tax, consulting, and ...
Deloitte trashed the hype around the $US180 billion fintech industry
May 24th, 2016
Deloitte just trashed the hype around the online lending industry. The accountancy and consultancy practice has done a deep dive on the online lending industry and its conclusions should make for devastating reading for anyone connected to the sector. ...
Next Money Announces Global Fintech Radar Challenge
May 23rd, 2016
Next Money, formerly Next Bank, announced on Friday that it is launching its first Global Fintech Radar Challenge. This event calls for Open Source developers/platforms to create and produce an aggregation tool for fintech data, news, insights, social media interactions, startups and companies, industry trends ...
Asia emerged as the next big opportunity in fintech
May 20th, 2016
Asia’s emerged as a key market for financial technology players, as the continent’s large population and limited banking network lures billions in funding. Investors poured $4.5 billion into fintech companies in Asia in 2015, three times the amount attracted ...
Nordea offers to fintech startups the chance to accelerate their business
May 16th, 2016
There will be a new chance for startups to accelerate their ideas this autumn. The first Nordea Accelerator programme ran successfully during winter 2015-2016 where twelve selected startups developed their ideas in cooperation with Nordea. The next programme will ...
Singapore, UK enhance FinTech collaboration
May 13th, 2016
The United Kingdom (UK) and Singapore have established the first FinTech Bridge with the signing of a Regulatory Cooperation Agreement between UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The launch coincided with the second UK-Singapore ...
Fintech Offer Opportunity To Investors
May 11th, 2016
Fintech is changing the way consumers interact with financial services and a key area for investors. Financial technology is shifting the business model away from cost per transaction to monetising data and advertising. New technologies include peer to peer ...
The fintech sector in Asia Pacific is booming
May 5th, 2016
The fintech sector in Asia Pacific is booming, according to Accenture’s ‘Fintech and the evolving landscape’ report. The study found that fintech investment in the region more than quadrupled to US$4.3 billion in 2015, which accounts for 19 percent ...
Deutsche Börse launches FinTech hub in Frankfurt
April 28th, 2016
Yesterday evening marked the opening of Deutsche Börse’s FinTech hub in Frankfurt, making it one of the first major companies of the region to support the Hessian State Government’s FinTech initiative to set up a FinTech cluster in Frankfurt. ...
