Fintech News

(By Matt Heiman, investor at Greylock Partners, techcrunch.com) When the internet was first created in the 1970’s and 1980’s with the introduction of the ARPANET its early years were focused on the development of infrastructure...

(By Hussein Dia, www.weforum.org) Many trends on the horizon offer opportunities that could transform our cities. From self-driving vehicles and the sharing economy through to cloud computing and blockchain technologies, each of these trends is...

Raisin proudly announces that at the end of 2016 it did not only celebrate the 3-year anniversary of its launch in Germany but also reached a milestone of EUR 2 billion in invested volume....

(By Denis Bugrov, Miklos Dietz, and Thomas Poppensieker, www.mckinsey.com) Our annual global banking review finds that a weak global economy, digitization, and regulation threaten the industry’s near-term profitability. Three formidable forces—a weak global economy, digitization, and...

(By Radheshyam Moholkar, www.sganalytics.com) FinTech (Financial Technology) startups are disrupting the traditional finance sector with innovative technologies and business models. As the banking industry explores opportunities to adopt this shift, it is imperative to understand...

  El pasado 1 de diciembre ya nos ocupamos de una de estas fintech europeas que están literalmente modificando el panorama financiero, ya que se presenta como una importante alternativa para los ahorradores ofreciendo depósitos...

By Kevin Helms, www.bitcoin.com The South American country of Colombia has a crumbling financial system but the bitcoin market has enormous potential. Bitcoin.com interviewed SurBTC’s CEO Guillermo Torrealba about the bitcoin market in Colombia. Colombia has Enormous...

(By Mayank Jain, www.bloomberquint.com) Can a simple conversation help a small business owner get a loan? Without the hassle of a long drawn out application process and myriad forms to fill? Bangalore-based fintech firm Artoo says...

(By Samburaj Das, www.cryptocoinsnews.com) BBVA Bancomer, the largest financial institution in Mexico, has acquired Openpay, a payments Fintech startup based in Mexico that enables real-time payments for individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises. The acquisition...

(By James Manyika, Susan Lund, Jacques Bughin, Jonathan Woetzel, Kalin Stamenov, and Dhruv Dhingra) Soaring flows of data and information now generate more economic value than the global goods trade. Conventional wisdom says that globalization has...