10/28/2016 10:30:03 PM Intesa Sanpaolo uses Bolero's trade digitization software to open up new frontier in Italian trade finance By Gareth Jones Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo has utilised tech company Bolero’s trade digitization software for a fully paperless import...
10/28/2016 8:23:40 PM Technology improving global trade efficiency By FinTech Collective International trade suffers from inefficient supply-chain logistics and financing options. This article reviews various ways in which...
10/28/2016 2:42:25 PM CIBC partners with fintech innovator Borrowell to deliver "one-click" online loans By Gareth Jones CIBC has announced that it is partnering with Toronto based Borrowell to offer "one-click" online lending for clients. The partnership...
10/28/2016 2:05:43 AM Uphold acquires bitcoin startup Bitnet By Gareth Jones Uphold, a cloud-based financial services platform, that leverages the operating efficiencies of blockchain technology, has announced the...
10/28/2016 2:00:56 AM Alibaba’s Jack Ma Urges China to Use Data to Combat Crime By Gareth Jones In a televised speech to about 1.5m security officials across China, Jack Ma proposed that the nation’s top security bureau collect and...
10/28/2016 1:47:06 AM Borrower or Fraudster? Online Lenders Scramble to Tell the Difference By Gareth Jones New research shows that on an average day, about 4.5% of people who take an unsecured personal loan go back for seconds at other lenders...
10/28/2016 1:42:01 AM Morgan Stanley’s Fiduciary Move By Gareth Jones In direct contrast to rival Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, will allow its 16,000 brokers to continue offering individual retirement...
10/28/2016 1:30:12 AM We Put Financial Advisers to the Test–and They Failed By Gareth Jones The WSJ, Sendhil Mullainathan from Harvard and Markus Noeth from Hamburg University sent “mystery shoppers” to financial advisers to...
10/28/2016 1:23:00 AM Payments start-up nanoPay gets $10m funding boost By Gareth Jones Participants in the financing round included the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs, APAGM Services LLC (Andrew Prozes), Jarnac...
10/28/2016 1:17:57 AM Banks bet on the next big thing: Financial chatbots By Gareth Jones At Money2020, Bank of America, MasterCard and several fintech startups announced new tools known as chatbots. Josh Reich, the co-founder...
10/27/2016 11:04:18 PM Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet By Gareth Jones Bruce Schneier points out in this post that over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run...
10/27/2016 10:40:04 PM City banks plan to hoard bitcoins to help them pay cyber ransoms By Gareth Jones Dr Simon Moores, a former technology ambassador for the UK government and chair of the annual international e-Crime Congress, said the...
10/27/2016 10:33:27 PM Visa Introduces Blockchain-based Solution for B2B Payment Services By Gareth Jones Visa B2B Connect is a new platform developed in conjunction with Chain to give financial institutions a simple, fast and secure way to...
10/27/2016 10:25:55 PM To Succeed With Passive Investing, Get a Little Active By Gareth Jones You can't just rely on the robot! Injecting a dollop of oversight into passive investments can help to achieve your goals. “it’s like...
10/27/2016 1:41:16 PM Major banks conduct first ever international trade using blockchain technology By FinTech Collective According to Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Wells Fargo & Co, the first major bank international trade transaction through blockchain...
10/27/2016 1:40:03 PM Verse secures $8.3m Series A By FinTech Collective San Francisco and Barcelona based p2p payments startup Verse has raised $8.3m in Series A funding led by Greycroft. Verse is aiming to...