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Bitcoin challenger YoCoin launches
July 8th, 2016
Cryptocurrency has become a phenomenon that will not be going away anytime soon, and YoCoin is leading the charge to take cryptocurrencies mainstream and make them accessible to everyone. Unlike most of the alternative cryptocurrencies, YoCoin is a decentralized, ...
Will Artificial Intelligence in accounting automation affect accountants job?
July 7th, 2016
Smacc, which uses AI to automate accounting, has secured a $3.5 million Series A round from Cherry Ventures, Rocket Internet, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures, Grazia Equity and business angels. Smacc offers small and medium-sized enterprises a platform to digitize ...
Financial technology company MyBucks starts trading today on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
June 23rd, 2016
MyBucks – the first African focused Fintech company listed in Germany – starts trading today on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange MyBucks S.A. successfully raised EUR 15.5m in its IPO First trading day of shares at Frankfurt Entry Standard today ...
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 ...
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi will develop its own digital currency
June 16th, 2016
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ confirmed on Tuesday it is conducting experiments on a digital currency utilizing the technology behind the virtual currency bitcoin. The statement came following a report from the Asahi Shimbun newspaper last week that the bank ...
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 ...
SEC: Morgan Stanley to pay a $1 million penalty for failures to Safeguard Customer Data
June 9th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC has agreed to pay a $1 million penalty to settle charges related to its failures to protect customer information, some of which was hacked and offered ...
Joseph Ahearn named COO by TradingScreen Executive Committee
June 7th, 2016
Joe Ahearn, co-founder of TradingScreen, has been named Chief Operating Officer by the TradingScreen Executive Committee. In this role, Joe will focus on optimizing the interaction between sales and technology while unifying the product strategy and product delivery to ...
This technology will overtake mobile phones in two years
June 6th, 2016
16 billion connected devices forecast to join Internet of Things by 2021-end Internet of Things (IoT) is set to overtake mobile phones as the largest category of connected device by 2018, according to the latest edition of the Ericsson ...
Is your company in legal trouble? There’s an app for that
June 3rd, 2016
Australian law firms are servicing their clients on smartphones and with hackathons There have long been dedicated smartphone apps to order pizza, book flights and identify songs. But managing corporate strategy in a crisis is an entirely new function. ...
