Kontomatik starts operating in the Philippines and Indonesia, with further expansion plans in the SEA region, as the first Polish company delivering new data source for alternative credit scoring based on financial transaction data to consumer finance and micro-lending companies in SEA.

Blockchain Software Development and Marketing company CPI Technologies provides the development, deployment, and maintenance of finance and b

Anyone rushing to catch the train, bus or subway knows that every second counts and Mastercard plans to make transit payments as simple as a flick of the wrist. The company today announced that new transit solutions are expected to be live in more than 20 cities in the United States within the next few years.

FTSE Russell, the global index, analytics and data provider, in association with DAR Data Services (DAR), have announced their intention to launch a new indicative FTSE Digital Assets Index. The indicative index will be used to evaluate and test a benchmark for the most actively traded digital assets. It will also help assist in the establishment of new industry standards for the digital assets market, in consultation with market participants.

MONEVO LAUNCHES CUTTING EDGE PERSONAL LOAN API & TECHNOLOGY TO GIVE CONSUMERS PERSONALISED COMPARISON EXPERIENCE 

MONEVO, Europe’s largest personal loan market place and platform, has launched Credit Staq for the UK market; a cutting-edge tech solution which gives consumers access to a comparison of pre-approved lending options from across the whole market. 

Over four in ten businesses in the UK are unaware of the risks posed by invoice fraud, despite these scams costing firms almost £93 million in 2018, research by UK Finance has revealed. 

More than 600 delegates attended the inaugural HashKey International Digital Asset Summit 2019 (HIDA2019) to hear leading experts discuss how blockchain technology is beginning to transform how we work, live and play in the same way that widespread adoption of the internet changed the world. 

Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology (DLT), has the potential to disrupt a wide range of business models across the financial services industry. However, the potential application of blockchain to the worlds of market data and reference data has not received that much attention.

It’s difficult to predict the extent to which this emerging technology will impact the financial industry. Advocates of cryptocurrencies will tell you the disruption has already happened.

• Firms in China and South-east Asia are more confident than those in Europe to deal with potentially stricter rules around consumer-data gathering and use; the US leads both regions
• Asian companies may be ahead of the ethics curve: companies in China and South-east Asia are more likely to tie data-privacy practices to good corporate governance than those in the West
• This comes amid the increasing importance of data privacy to organisations today—it will be even more important in future, according to EIU survey

Chase is launching Chase Secure Banking, a low cost checking account in order to provide access a traditional banking relationship for more consumers around the country, including those new to banking or who have had trouble getting or keeping an account in the past.