Fintech

Facebook's new currency faces regulatory hurdles.

The fast expanding cryptocurrency market urgently needs accounting guidance. But powerful bodies like the IASB are still figuring it out.

Facing regulatory hurdles in the U.S. and China, Libra's best bet may be in Latin America.

Innovation in the consumer payments sector vastly outstrips innovation in the business payments sector but that need not be the case according to Bottomline Business Payments Roundtable participants.

The EU's alternative to Paypal is off to a slow start.

Though still relatively new themselves, the world’s top fintech labs are helping startups, banks and governments devise fresh solutions and uncover untapped opportunities.

Financial institutions are pushing the benefits of going cashless, but many users remain wary.

Remittances are now a half-trillion dollar market and fintechs and technology companies are getting in on the action.

Blockchain technology is speeding up trade-finance transactions. But there’s more work needed to scale up and develop common standards.

Fearing loss of revenue as their business customers push to go paperless, Asia’s banking giants are forging new partnerships.

Fintech M&As broke records last year.

Sarah I. Hody, an attorney in the Palo Alto office of law firm Perkins Coie, talks to Global Finance about fintech regulation and how the blockchain is impacting corporate interactions.

Non-bank companies may soon be competing with traditional banks in the US.

Russia's Sberbank is helping the country's tech start-ups find American investors and transforming itself in the process.

Smartphone-only bank makes a splash in the US.

James Stickland is CEO of Veridium, a company focused on an authentication platform that uses biometrics. He speaks with Global Finance about fintech, cybersecurity and the wisdom of border walls.

India allows some crypto technologies but not others.

Cryptocurrencies and associated technologies are welcomed by the Swiss.

Lithuania establishes a regulatory regime fit for fintechs.

Much of Africa is underbanked and Nigeria is determined to do something about it.