Fintech funding round-up: 20 December 2017
Features Raisin, PayPal, Home Credit Venture Capital, Barion Payment and Cash Svidha.
Features Raisin, PayPal, Home Credit Venture Capital, Barion Payment and Cash Svidha.
The big data analytics start-up could help AWS add an additional layer of security to its public cloud.
eToro and CoinDash will develop a suite of blockchain-based products for social trading.
Waiting to send a digital gift card for southern US clothing styles? You’re in luck.
Walk with me through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly-twirly gum drops.
Recent hacks and data breaches have shown that cybercriminals are tenacious, smart and well resourced.
Features ABI Lab, R3, the government of Estonia, Chronobank and Bitcoin.com.
Features Softbank, Lemonade, Amazon, Capital Float and Delio.
The recent surge in its price is good news for investors, but perhaps a death sentence for its functional value.
Story needs more double entendres.
2017 ends with the Bitcoin having surpassed the $19,000 mark. Could this perhaps be a taste of our future?
Smart contracts platform Symbiont has teamed up with Centre for Research in Security Prices (CRSP).
Oracle reported total cloud revenues up 44% to $1.5 billion for Q2 of its fiscal 2018.
Point of sale (POS) financing provider Financeit completed an investment round with existing shareholder Goldman Sachs
Banking personalisation firm SBDA landed investment from FinSight Ventures and Digital Space Ventures.
Financial management tech start-up DoubleNet Pay scored a deal with investment services firm T Rowe Price.
In the eye of the storm we provide clarity.
The glamorous Banking Technology Awards 2017 took place on 13 December at the elegant Millennium Mayfair hotel in London.
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The initial coin offering (ICO) investment has surged since the first one back in 2013.
Are you suspicious? This is a key question at the heart of efforts to tackle money laundering: if you work for a bank or other financial institution and have suspicions money laundering is happening, you have a legal duty to speak up.
With concerns that AI will make human employment obsolete, research firm Gartner is looking to counter that narrative.
IBM has revealed the first clients to tap into its IBM Q early-access commercial quantum computing systems.
The baddest boy on the security block.
This round-up features Finstar, State Street, FRISS and iZettle.
IBM has unveiled its Bot Asset Exchange – a place for chatbot development.
The name’s bond. Tamed bond.
The Financial Stability Board has stated in its first report on AI that the risks they pose need monitoring.
Featuring the Gibraltar Parliament; Cboe Global Markets; and Waves Platform, Ethereum and Deloitte teaming up.
Spending on IoT could reach $772.5 billion by the end of 2018, with the whole market headed toward $1 trillion by 2020.
This round-up features WorldRemit, PAIR Finance and an update on Sophia the AI robot and SingularityNET.
Fintech companies will find that they are a different kind of business in 2018 than they were in 2017.
New regulations are forcing enterprises to spend more of their IT budgets on security.
The latest features IOTA, Microsoft, Indonesia’s central bank and Australian Securities Exchange.
What happens when you’re facilitating the trade of a product that is experiencing extreme hockey stick growth?
US-based Fifth Third Bank has chosen FIS to enable real-time payments (RTP) for its customers through The Clearing House’s (TCH) payments system.
Startupbootcamp has unveiled the launch of Startupbootcamp Scale, an innovation programme for growth stage start-ups in emerging markets.
Have any UK high street or challenger banks made the jump to 100% digital onboarding?
The recent World Economic Forum (WED) report “Sweden could stop using cash by 2023”, says that the country is moving towards favouring cards and mobile payment apps. Yet retailers are expected to accept cash for at least a couple of years afterwards.
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