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New Asia-Pacific FinTech network targeting innovation
The new Asia-Pacific #FinTech Network aims to facilitate greater collaboration throughout the region and encourage #innovation across borders. Read more…
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Fed wary of disruptive fintech firms. Really?
The U.S. Federal Reserve is wary of giving “fintech” firms access to the country’s financial infrastructure citing lack of robust risk-management controls. Read more…
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Mapping disruption across industries will look like a lava lamp
Disruption will not be consistent, nor global. It will be patchy, opportunistic and will depend to a huge extent on culture. It will look like a lava lamp. Read more…
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Four ways Singapore will embrace digital transformation in 2019
In 2019, Singapore will see an influx in the use of AI solutions, not just across the SMB sector, but in the form of digital services such as chatbots. Additionally, we’ll also see financial institutions Read more…
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Asian consumers ready to embrace cash-free Fintech future
Consumers in Taiwan, Thailand and Indonesia say they are among the most ready in the world to embrace a cash-free, Fintech future, whereas in Japan and other markets surveyed, consumers are taking more of a Read more…
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Identity verification enables a great customer experience
Digital banks use identity verification to enable a frictionless customer experience in exactly the same way that traditional banks don’t. Recently I received my invitation to sign up with N26, the Berlin-based digital bank, which Read more…
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Line lands separate FinTech deals with Mizuho and Tencent
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese chat app operator Line Corp will set up a bank with Mizuho Financial Group and also partner China’s Tencent to offer mobile payment services – plans which saw its stock rise Read more…
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Follow the FinTech: the new battle for control
Money, power and politics have always been linked to each other. The control of banks and finance services is an important way to use power and control macro developments. For example, anti-money laundering measures are Read more…
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Bitcoin plunge continues as investors sour on crypto
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bitcoin plunged more than 12% on Monday, extending falls in recent weeks in a broad-based selloff in digital currencies as sentiment sours. Several factors have accelerated the downturn, analysts said, including Read more…
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Why Bitcoin is losing viability as a payment option
LONDON (Reuters) – The use of Bitcoin for commercial payments has dropped dramatically this year, even as the original digital coin starts to fulfil one of the basic features of any payment currency: stability. The Read more…