Chicago Launches FinTech Centre of Excellence

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Infrastructure

FinTex, the Chicago fintech association, today announced the launch of Currency, a fintech Center of Excellence, dedicated to collaboration, research and sharing of best practices.  Currency’s launch follows on the heels of Chicago’s ranking as one of the world’s top five fintech hubs in the latest Innovate Finance report by Deloitte ( Connecting Global FinTech: Interim Hub Review 2017 ).

Banks Can Miss the Open Banking Opportunity

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Banking

Monitise FINkit can today announce the key findings from its research into senior banking executives’ priorities, challenges, and future plans. The study, carried out by independent researchers LM Research, includes responses from 15 major UK banks and other financial institutions. Regulation: keeping bank executives awake at night but they are at risk of missing the opportunity presented

Mizuho Financial Group, Mizuho Bank and IBM Japan to Launch Blockchain-based Trade Financing Platform

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Blockchain, Trade Finance

Mizuho Financial Group, Mizuho Bank and IBM Japan today announced they are building a blockchain-based trade financing platform. With the platform, Mizuho is aiming to streamline trading operations and improve supply chain efficiency.

CodeGen To Reveal Revolutionary Innovations at EyeforTravel Europe 2017

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Infrastructure

The software includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven Personalization and Recommendation Engines. These options allow travel businesses to mine data from multiple sources and provide personalised product offerings enabling better conversion rates and, ultimately, better margins. Further revolutionary tools gather insights and customer sentiments to better deliver what customers are looking for and what criteria is most important to them....

Hyperledger Welcomes Seven New Members

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Blockchain

 Hyperledger, a collaborative cross-industry effort created to advance blockchain technology, announced today that seven new members have joined the project to help create an open standard for distributed ledgers for a new generation of transactional applications.

Temenos Demonstrates Real-World Fintech

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Banking

Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, today hosts over 1,200 delegates at its 18th annual Temenos Community Forum in Lisbon. The theme of the conference, “Real-World Fintech”, addresses the truth beyond the fintech hype, with real-world examples of the exciting innovation coming out of banks and fintech companies. The conferences also takes a closer look at some emerging technologies – such as Artificial intelligence and...

8 out of 10 British Consumers Prefer Independent Businesses over Larger Stores: Survey Reveals 2017 is the Year of the Small Business

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Infrastructure

A recent survey by Liberis, a UK alternative finance provider, reveals that 8 out of 10 consumers plan to use independent businesses in preference to larger businesses this year. The survey was commissioned by Liberis to discover current consumer attitudes towards small businesses.

Concurrent Unveils Availability of Origin Release 3

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Asset Management

Concurrent, a global leader in storage, protection, transformation, and delivery of visual assets announces the availability of Origin Release 3, offering video service providers the most comprehensive origin platform for ingesting, hosting, distributing, and serving video content to any device, any time, over any network, for content service providers.

Mizuho Financial Group Taps Cognizant to Develop a Distributed Ledger Solution for More Efficient and Secure Trade Finance

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Trade Finance

Dwolla and Plaid team on Tokenised ACH Payment Integration

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Payments

Today, Plaid and Dwolla announced a new partnership to offer a fully tokenized ACH payment integration. The partnership makes it possible to tokenize account and routing numbers and authenticate user bank accounts through Plaid and start accepting Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments in minutes with Dwolla’s ACH API. 

Vela Unveils European Best Bid Offer Solution

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Trading Systems

Vela Trading Technologies (Vela), a global leader in high performance trading and market data technology, has launched a fully-managed European Best Bid Offer (EBBO) solution in response to increased client demand to comply with the changing pre-trade transparency and best execution rules which will come into force with MiFID II in January 2018.  

CommonBond Expands Into Graduate and Undergraduate Student Loans Market

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Banking

CommonBond, a leading financial technology company that helps students and graduates pay for higher education, today announces the launch of student loans for undergraduate and graduate students. 

Colt Unveils Managed FPGA Market Data Service with NovaSparks

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Data Management

Colt announced today that participants can now receive TSE’s Flex Full market data feed normalised with an FPGA solution1 as part of its market data portfolio for Capital Markets customers. 

Certua Robo Life Insurance Startup Expands to UK

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Data, FinTech StartUps

Certua, a data driven fin-tech company has today announced its intention to launch to market in 2017. 

Medici Ventures Invests in Latin American Bitcoin Startup Ripio

• 7 years 10 months ago
• Blockchain

Medici Ventures, a global leader in advancing blockchain technology, has added bitcoin consumer financial service platform Ripio to its portfolio of strategic blockchain-focused investments through participation in Ripio’s Series A financing.