UK fintechs see a record-breaking year in 2021, raising $11.6 billion n funds across 713 deals. Mammoth funding rounds drove the figures, including those of Revolut, Monzo, Copper, Checkout.com, and S...
China is ramping up efforts to roll out the digital yuan to the broader population, as the country’s technology giants like Alibaba and Tencent jump on board. But will Chinese citizens — who already u...
Investors are preparing for another record year of European venture capital activity, but frothy valuations, overseas competition and accessing talent are among the potential headwinds. European start...
he special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) boom did not play out as some folks in the technology and business worlds hoped. Despite a wave of optimism through early 2021, private companies that pur...
IBM introduced CodeFlare at the Ray Summit in June of 2021. The platform was introduced to drastically reduce the time required to set up, run, and scale machine-learning tests. For example, CodeFlare...
Despite Switzerland being a global banking hub, a study commissioned by fintech firm Crealogix found low adoption of digital functionalities and low satisfaction ratings of digital banking amongst Swi...
Careers In Corporate Finance, From Hedge Funds to M&A Corporate finance is a key pillar on which modern markets and economies have been built. And this complex ecosystem consists of a number of im...
6 years is an eternity in Fintech and this is my 6th annual Top 10 Fintech Predictions for 2022. 2021 was a great year for Fintech, billion-dollar IPOs, Crypto, NFTs, and the evolution of blockchain t...
here was a period of time when insurtech startups actually selling their own insurance products were hot tickets in the private and public markets. Things have changed. The venture-backed insurtech ro...
Bank technology initiatives this year will be driven by the need to make finance ultra convenient for consumers and businesses. One manifestation of this is embedded banking, a version of the open ban...
South and Southeast Asian consumers have definitely caught the fintech bug, with new research revealing that downloads of banking and alternative lending apps grew eight times over in the first nine m...
Fintech involves the efficient use of technology to simplify financial processes in a company and to build efficiency and automation in transactions, payments processing, etc. However, fintech has fur...
When David Vélez tried to open an account in a Brazilian bank in 2012, it took him four months to win approval, not unusual in a country where high fees and bureaucracy are the norm in banking. When v...
StonehamBank in Massachusetts recently began checking in with newer hires around the first anniversary of their start date. A human resources staffer chats with the employee to assess what’s going wel...
We’ve highlighted before that private companies are raising larger amounts of capital and waiting longer than ever before to go public. As a result, the rate of crossover investments—when firms that t...