FinTech Conference Brings Together Numerous Industry Rep and Policy Makers AVP - MT Sales Executive of Nasdaq Tony Sio recently took part in an Artificial Intelligence & Robo Advice seminar during the second annual FinTech Conference held in Brussels on Feb. 27. Sio made multiple points during his speech such as: ...
Hong Kong's Securities Watchdog to Regulate Crypto Funds- Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) says it will bring crypto funds under its securities regulations to improve investor protection. In a circular issued Thursday, the financial regulator said that investment funds based in Hong Kong and that intend to invest...
Danielle Szetho is no longer the Chief Executive officer at Fintech Australia. She has been in this position for almost two years and now the organization is hunting for a new executive lead while Sarah Worboys, a former accountant at chartered, will take the interim CEO position beginning March...
The monetary damage caused by authorized push payment scams in 2017 among UK consumers was finally revealed to the public for the first time. The figures released to the media shows that UK consumers lost £236 million to authorized push payment scams in 2017, the first year that Britain's banks...
Leading derivatives regulator Mr Giancarlo said: “I personally think that cryptocurrencies are here to stay. “I think there is a future for them.” He however is sceptical the currency will ever achieve its ultimate goal of becoming the world’s leading currency. CRYPTOCURRENCIES like bitcoin are here to stay, claims Commodity Futures Trading...
The Fintech industry in Mexico is growing at a rapid pace. In many of the cases, the banks were forced to take up the solutions and products which were provided by the Fintech industry. Many of the banks feared attempts by hackers to hack the real-time payment systems. As...
EU Setting Up 23-Step Fintech Action Plan: The European Commission is laying out the particulars of its 23-Step Fintech Action Plan that would provide digital transformation support to the financial services sector. This would also create an EU Fintech Laboratory, which would lay the foundation for regulatory rules and crowdfunding...
Two banks in Singapore and Lithuania have a forged a partnership in order to develop a FinTech ecosystems and encourage greater financial innovation in the two countries. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Bank of Lithuania formally signed the FinTech Co-operation Agreement on the sidelines of the Money...
The OmiseGo team is preparing to expand the business alliance with two financial institutions in South Korea. After Ripple (XRP) and EOS succeeded in making such moves, the Omisego team signed an agreement with Shinhan and Woori , two major South Korean banks. Both banks will work on Omisego's Blockchain to ease financial...
Unfortunately, when we take a look at the statistics coming from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index, we can easily come to a conclusion how house prices in the US haven't been rising slowly than now for almost 7 years! The report was brought this March, and we are also able to...