60 Latin American Banks Can Now Use Bitcoin for Cross-Border Payments

60 Latin American Banks Can Now Use Bitcoin for Cross-Border Payments

Christine Kim A leading bank technology provider in Latin America is partnering with cryptocurrency exchange Bitex to facilitate cross-border payments over the bitcoin blockchain. “The integration of Bitex into Bantotal program represents a major step in...
AI in banks: risks and opportunities

AI in banks: risks and opportunities

-The financial industry has become an active adapter of AI. -The global spending in AI has touched 41.1 billions in 2018. -Bank´s investment in AI would come with its share of risks and opportunities.   Future Of Artificial Intelligence...
El 63% de los tomadores de crédito online no tiene tarjeta de crédito

El 63% de los tomadores de crédito online no tiene tarjeta de crédito

  La compañía de servicios financieros digitales que opera en Argentina y México (MONI) dio a conocer los resultados de una encuesta realizada a 1.342 clientes que han utilizado los servicios de su plataforma...
Israeli Regulator to Fast Track 2,000 Fintech License Applications

Israeli Regulator to Fast Track 2,000 Fintech License Applications

By William Foxley  Israel’s Fintech regulator is rearranging its licensing regime to encourage competition in the field. The Israeli Capital Market Authority is looking to change how fintech licenses are distributed in Israel according to a...
ShareData Science, the Good, the Bad, and the… Future

Share Data Science, the Good, the Bad, and the… Future

By Kirit Thadaka What is data science? How often do you think you’re touched by data science in some form or another? Finding your way to this article likely involved a whole bunch of data science...
Disminuye la inversión global en el sector fintech: KPMG

Disminuye la inversión global en el sector fintech: KPMG

Por José Luis Becerra Pozas Unos 37,900 millones de dólares, repartidos en 962 operaciones. Este es el balance del sector fintech en 2019, entre los meses de enero y junio, según el informe Pulse of fintech...
Report: Data Breach in Biometric Security Platform Affecting Millions of Users

Report: Data Breach in Biometric Security Platform Affecting Millions of Users

By vpn Mentor Led by internet privacy researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s team recently discovered a huge data breach in security platform BioStar 2.   BioStar 2 is a web-based biometric security smart lock platform. A centralized application, it allows...
Mapeo a las FinTech de América Latina: suben los años de existencia

Mapeo a las FinTech de América Latina: suben los años de existencia, llegan a...

Por Gabriel Alvarez Ya es un hecho que las empresas financieras tecnológicas (FinTech) llegaron para quedarse, algo que pasa tanto en Chile como en América Latina. Pero, ¿cuáles son sus principales características, cuánto tiempo duran,...
How artificial intelligence is fighting financial crime

Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over the Financial World?

  The term Artificial Intelligence came into existence in 1956, when John McCarthy, a renowned American computer scientist held a conference on this subject. For over 60 years, this concept has become an integral part...
Tesla

Tesla-fy your bank

Written by FinTech Futures Elon Musk has revolutionised not only products but our thinking about how to save the planet, from sustainable solar power and electric cars to colonising Mars! If you’ve read his autobiography,...