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Biggest developments in fintech in 2016
June 23rd, 2016
To get to grips with one of the 21st century’s biggest changes in digital – especially in regards to finance and investment – is no easy task for any business. Startups, SMEs and even multi-national corporations have discovered that ...
International Telecom Group offices raided over money laundering and tax fraud suspicion
June 22nd, 2016
Nineteen people have been arrested and nine of them charged with money laundering after BuzzFeed News revealed Lycamobile’s “deeply suspicious” cash movements. The Conservative party’s biggest donor, the telecoms giant Lycamobile, has been raided by French police on suspicion ...
Bitcoin exchange Quoine raises $20m venture investment
June 21st, 2016
Quoine, a Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange, has closed a $20 million funding round, leveraging off the large opportunity for Bitcoin in the Japanese market, led by venture capitalists (VCs) and other ‘strategic investors’. It’s last funding round was a $2 million ...
Canadians Launch Concierge Brokerage Service for the Bitcoin Generation
June 15th, 2016
Canadians Launch Concierge Brokerage Service for the Bitcoin Generation Bitbuy.ca is a Crypto-Currency Service That Offers Banking, Procurement and Merchant Solutions to the End User TORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – June 14, 2016) – While Bitcoin and crypto-currency continue to expand into ...
IBM to Offer Apple Pay on the Web to Commerce Clients
June 15th, 2016
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will offer Apple Pay on the web to its online clients, bringing their customers easy, secure and private payments in Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac with a single touch. According to BI Intelligence four ...
The pensions mess: can gold help?
June 14th, 2016
The British have recently seen two unpleasant examples of the cost of pension fund deficits. A deficit at British Steel, estimated to be about £485m, was followed by a deficit at British Home Stores of £571m. In both cases, ...
An Everyman’s Guide To Understanding Cryptocurrencies
June 13th, 2016
Cryptocurrencies have a role that could increase as global currencies are devalued. When an asset rises by almost 30% in a few weeks, it tends to attract attention. Recently, that asset was bitcoin (BTC). The price of BTC in ...
Fintech revenues might double to $2.4 bn by 2020
June 10th, 2016
Growing smartphone penetration, evolving e-commerce ecosystem and customer expectations to give the big push The market for financial technologies (fintech) software in this country is estimated to double to $2.4 billion by 2020 from around $1.2 bn at present. This would ...
Five fintech start-ups aiming to replace traditional banking
June 9th, 2016
According to recent data from Accenture, funding for fintech companies reached a staggering £3.7bn in the first quarter of 2016 alone. With global investment growing at such a rapid rate, traditional banking services are finally beginning to realise the ...
What is fintech?
June 3rd, 2016
If nothing else it is on course to become a $20bn market this year. Fintech was once simply shorthand for financial technology (a portmanteau). But in 2008-09 in the post financial crisis world, Fintech began to take on a ...
