Tradeshift, the world’s largest business commerce platform, has partnered with CreditEase to deliver a trade financing app that will bring low-cost financing to millions of businesses in China.

Launched in 2015, the agRIF fund seeks to address the scarcity of financial services adapted to the needs of smallholder farmers, an economic segment representing the largest portion of those living on less than $2 per day. It does this by investing equity in financial intermediaries that target the agricultural sector.

43 percent looking to switch in the next year, as 68 percent feel they are “Just a number” to their bank

The fixed income market network is now connected to its latest OMS/EMS provider to offer the buy-side greater access to liquidity through best-of-breed price discovery tools.

Wirecard has successfully promoted the digitalisation of payment processes through Internet technology on a global scale and achieved its growth targets for 2016 as a result. 

Cobalt DL launches BlueSky, enabling third party providers to offer complementary services from its reconciled data

Cobalt DL (Cobalt), the FX post-trade processing network based on distributed ledger technology, today announced a partnership with LMRKTS, who will be the first firm to offer services on its revolutionary BlueSky service, the shared ledger component of Cobalt’s platform.

Tradeshift, the world’s biggest business commerce platform, has partnered with CreditEase to deliver a trade financing app that will bring low-cost financing to millions of businesses in China. CreditEase, the largest peer-to-peer lender in China (and globally), can now deliver accounts receivables financing to millions of fast-growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Today Cobalt DL, the FX post-trade processing network based on distributed ledger technology, announced a partnership with LMRKTS, who will be the first firm to offer services on its revolutionary BlueSky service, the shared ledger component of Cobalt’s platform. 

Today Neptune Networks Ltd., the fixed income market network for pre-trade indications in bonds, reported that it has completed connectivity to FlexTrade’s buy-side EMS platform, FlexTRADER, to distribute high quality, pre-trade data to assist investors with liquidity and price discovery within existing workflows.

I was listening to a financier talking about FinTech the other day, and claiming that they are all sustaining innovations and not disruptive.  They were referring to Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma discussions, where Professor Christensen points to different markets that were destroyed by disruptors.  Those markets include the American car industry, destroyed by cheaper Japanese car manufacturing; the fixed line telephone firms destroyed by cellphone makers; the mainframe computer industry destroyed by the PC disruptors; and more.

Rubbish.