IBM hits growth for first time in 23 quarters
Did it in style – exceeding analyst revenue expectations by almost $500 million.
Innovation
Banking tech round-up: 19 January 2018
Featuring Fiserv, HSLC, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Contovista, Piraeus Bank, Intellect Design Arena and Bank of Baroda.
Coinbase gets the Memo.AI engineering talent
Digital currency wallet Coinbase looks for growth.
Blockchain security firm Ledger raises $75m funding
Investment takes the company’s total capital to more than $85 million.
Top fintech stories this week – 19 January 2018
Catch up on our top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
We were kings when fees went to zero
Spirios Margaris discusses the troubling future of zero fee financial services.
Working together: how partnerships are paving the way for insurtech
A chat with Jennyfer Yeung-Williams, head of UK and European partner engagement at MunichRe Digital Partners.
Top six trends in payments
What trends will be impacting the payments industry this year?
Fintech funding round-up: 18 January 2018
Featuring BB&T Corporation, Solgari and Tinkoff Bank.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 18 January 2018
Features Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Jibrel Network, Yes Bank and HashCash.
Close to you – how white-label partnerships will continue to evolve
They have deepened and broadened, now covering more services than have been traditionally associated with the term.
How to keep traditional underwriting ahead of the curve
Elena Rasa, chief underwriting officer at Zurich, speaks to us at InsurTech Rising 2017.
Four regtech trends of 2017
Cast your mind back to 2017. Did the trends predicted shake the industry as much as we thought?
InsurTech Rising Live: Digital Week
Featuring industry leaders discussing the issues impacting insurtechs today.
Microsoft and Alibaba officially have AI that’s smarter than humans
They beat humans using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset – aka SQuAD.
Banking tech round-up: 16 January 2018
Featuring Finastra, Cyberport, ME Bank, FIS, FinReach, Deutsche Postbank and Saxo Bank.
Is the insurance industry ready for autonomous cars?
Driverless cars; opportunity for the insurance sector or a challenge that could lead to its downfall?
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 16 January 2018
Post-trade scenarios, a cryptocurrency app and a trading platform. Stars Swift, DeVere Group and Horizon Software.
Visa pilots new biometric payment card
With Mountain America Credit Union and Bank of Cyprus for a new EMV dual-interface card.
Fintech funding round-up: 12 January 2018
Features Ladder, Petal, Fisco, Equitise and Xinja.
Top fintech stories this week – 12 January 2018
Catch up on FinTech Future’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
“Teach STEM from an early age” for equality in fintech
How to tackle inequality and promote women in fintech.
Payments round-up: 11 January 2018
Featuring lots of partnerships – with Ripple, MoneyGram, Worldpay, Iyzico, MSTS and Apruve.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 11 January 2018
Stars Saifu, Thales, Babb, Iznes, SETL and Sberbank’s new lab.
Staying ahead of the competition
InsurTech Bytes, the specialist InsurTech podcast series, speak with Allianz about their business strategy.
Intelligent Environments appoints new CEO
He most recently served as VP of EMEA at Fiserv. Prior to that, head of retail banking and insurance at Oracle.
How wearables will change everything
The next wave of technological transformation will be driven by the rise of wearable technology.
Payments round-up: 10 January 2018
With special guest stars Worldpay, Como Global, Mastercard, Here Technologies, Dream Payments and Wirecard.
Fintech funding round-up: 10 January 2018
Starring Mylo Financial Technologies, Goji and Collibra.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 10 January 2018
Features BNP Paribas Asset Management, Falcon Private Bank and the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange.
IBM proudly poses at patent peak
Its inventors received a record number of patents in 2017 – marking its 25th consecutive year of US leadership.
The key to unlocking potential from regtech: change the way you think
It’s time to think out of the box when it comes to regtech.
When it comes to regtech, going it alone isn’t an option
Collaboration is the name of the game for regtechs trying to get ahead, according to Chris O’Driscoll of PA Consulting.
New year, new us: say hello to FinTech Futures!
We’re starting 2018 with a bang!
Google Pay gets clever with all payments together
Launches a one brand band.
CIBC acquires Wellington Financial for lendtech push
Buys loan assets as it seeks to strengthen its presence in North America.
AI is on!
Implementation of first uses cases around real-time contextual added-value banking notifications and offers to make their appearance in 2018.
Fintech funding round-up: 8 January 2018
Features IBM, Comcast, MState, Early Salary, Previse and Dinghy.
Infographic: history of Ripple coin
Buyripple explains “how banks fell in love with Ripple” in this infographic.
Microsoft is a “deeply open source company”, says Azure CTO Mark Russinovich
Get used to the idea of Microsoft embracing open source.
