Fintech

Banking as a service is burgeoning—and with it, considerable challenges and opportunities.

Corporate and investor sentiment toward Bitcoin was already on the upswing before Tesla’s purchase of the cryptocurrency. 

Cryptocurrencies are becoming integrated into the world payments system.

Likhit Wagle, general manager of Global Banking & Financial Markets at IBM, speaks to Global Finance about the industry urgency to digitize and counter the threat from Big Tech.

Total cryptocurrency-market capitalization surpassed $1 trillion for the first time last month, suggesting that yet more companies with a stake in the sector may be preparing to test the waters.

The Covid-19 pandemic has given fresh impetus to the need for paper-free international trade processes. 

The European Banking Authority established a central register with information regarding payment and electronic-money institutions.

Google Pay will be able to not only aggregate data from different banks but analyze that data and make special offers.

The credit card titans seek to leverage AI and data tools to deliver cybersecurity and other financial solutions as banks find it increasingly challenging to operate in the digital world.

The ECB has announced that it will decide by mid-2021 when to launch a digital euro project, beginning with an investigative phase.

Did politics play a role in the cancellation of Ant Group's IPO?

Central banks in countries like Sweden, China, the UK, Uruguay, West Africa, Japan, Singapore, and France are piloting or experimenting with digital currencies.

While fintech was meant to democratize economic power, unconscious biases drove innovation and solutions were designed to generate revenue rather than improve everyone's lives.

Under the shadow of the pandemic, SWIFT has embarked on a revamp of its underlying technological infrastructure, which may be reliable, trusted and relatively secure, but is no longer fit for purpose in a highly interconnected and sped up world.

The platform will operate 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, including holidays and weekends.

The uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 has made data, analytics, and machine learning more valuable than ever.

Cash may not be king anymore but it's not going away any time soon.

Fintech-bank product pitches endure despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Entrepreneurs—even the more seasoned ones—say they most value the coaching of finance executives. 

Social distancing and lockdowns are propelling some fintech companies' fortunes.