6/27/2014 2:52:03 AM Why Millennial Women Have a Money Problem By Gareth Jones It's a bold headline, but a recent survey from Wells Fargo surfaced stark and ominous data that the income gap between genders is growing...
6/27/2014 2:41:35 AM Why Aren’t Millennials Investing? Fear Isn’t the Only Factor By Gareth Jones The financial crisis led to an emotionally driven financial approach for many millennials who perceive the stock market, and most...
6/26/2014 10:42:06 PM LevelUp to build Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons into payments terminals By Gareth Jones LevelUp, the Google backed mobile payments platform, has built iBeacon capability into their scanners so that merchant can use BLE to...
6/26/2014 10:31:50 PM Salesforce Rolls Out Salesforce1 For Retail By Gareth Jones This week Salesforce introduced Salesforce1 for Retail which includes Mobile Clienteling as well as Salesforce Communities for Retail. It...
6/26/2014 10:23:55 PM Will Google Enter The Insurance Industry? By Gareth Jones The collision of traditional insurance with the internet of things (IoT), big data and capabilities like deep learning is starting to...
6/26/2014 10:09:23 PM UK Banking body proposes relaxing challenger bank capital By Gareth Jones Banking reform is top of the agenda for Britain's political parties in the run-up to the 2015 election. Lack of competition helped...
6/26/2014 3:32:35 AM Payment Startup Stripe Partners With China’s Alipay By Gareth Jones Alipay has grown into a dominant payment method among Chinese consumers, handling about half of all online transactions in China, reports...
6/25/2014 4:01:32 PM Schroders invests in online wealth manager Nutmeg By Gareth Jones Schroders, Charles Dunstone (Carephone Warehouse) and Michael Spencer (ICAP) have invested US$32 in Nutmeg the UK version of Wealthfront,...
6/25/2014 3:51:21 PM CNBC's Top 50 Disruptors overflowing with FinTech By Gareth Jones This was our first reaction too.. This blog has done a good job of highlighting them all. Wealth Management; Lending and Crowd Funding...
6/25/2014 3:42:49 PM Swiss based KYC Exchange builds banking momentum By Gareth Jones Could these guys become the one-stop-shop solution for the Know Your Customer ("KYC") regulatory requirements?
6/25/2014 3:34:54 PM The Era of Trade Surveillance Automation By Gareth Jones A simple and well constructed article around the evolution of compliance Technology over the last two years. The next big...
6/25/2014 2:40:50 PM A Manchester street became the UK's first ever 'cashless' shopping area in one day experiment By Gareth Jones On June 21st shops and businesses on Beech Road in Chorlton, Manchester accepted only debit and credit card payments and no notes or...
6/19/2014 4:00:05 AM Crowdcube targets growing businesses with new mini-bond funding option By Gareth Jones Crowdcube, the UK's largest equity crowdfunding website, has launched a new mini bond option which is targeted at established businesses...
6/19/2014 2:56:21 AM iOS8 could have an impact on FinTech By Gareth Jones With iOS 8 installed on thousands of developer devices, details about the operating system continue to leak out. Some features could have...
6/19/2014 2:50:15 AM A reminder of whats important when selling to a Financial Institution By Gareth Jones Ovum predicts global IT spend in financial services will increase by 4.8% in 2014, rising to $100 billion by 2018. So it is always a...
6/19/2014 2:35:55 AM Why are credit unions in the UK not very popular By Gareth Jones A good UK vs. USA stat here from the BBC. It seems that whilst altruism will win you some customers, decent saving rates really win the day.