Voiceprint: A Security Game-Changer for Banks and Credit Unions of All Sizes

By Dan Hansen Imagine if bank and credit union customers could access their account information with merely the sound of their voices — no passwords or PIN numbers required. Now imagine cutting the time of a typical...

Swiss Regulator Imposes 800% Risk Weighting for Bank Crypto Trading

  The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has instructed banks dealing in cryptoassets to apply a risk weighting of eight times their market value  when calculating loss-absorbing capital buffers. In a confidential letter seen by swissinfo.ch,...

72% of asset managers, investment banks, brokers and hedge funds say cryptocurrency is here...

  A new report on institutional interest in cryptocurrency shows the vast majority of financial executives believe crypto is here to stay. Greenwich Associates asked institutional market makers across North America, Europe and Asia about the...

Bank Of America holds the most blockchain patents in the world

By Uma Johnson The Bank of America has a large collection of over 50 blockchain applications in the world. On the 30th of October, yet another application was filed. The Bank of America is the second largest bank...
Australia Remittances

How The Rallying Dollar Impacts Remittances From Australia To Emerging Countries

The Rise & Rise Of The US Dollar The soaring US dollar has had a domino effect on currencies across the world this year. Since the beginning of 2018, the US dollar has appreciated over...

How Blockchain is Changing the Future of Fintech Industry

By Prashant Sharma As the new ubiquity of the twenty-first century, technological developments have now decidedly trickled into the workflow structure across multiple industries and are an integral element of varied business processes. Tasks which once...

5 Small Countries Making A Big Impact In Cryptocurrency And Blockchain

  Blockchain technology has come a long way since its first intended use for cryptocurrency. Over the course of the past year, so many companies (both private and public) have been incorporating blockchain in some...

Don’t be afraid of artificial intelligence managing your money

Would you want a robot managing your money? Are you comfortable with a computer that could think and learn? While this might sound like a futuristic science fiction novel, it’s already happening in financial services....

Fintech revenue growth surges: EY census

By James Eyers Two-thirds of fintech start-ups expect to increase employee numbers over the next year as the census showed more venture capital is being put into the sector. Indeed, fintech received more funding than any other...

AI-powered investments: how AI/ML is improving returns in the investment industry

By Aarti Manwani      The discipline of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was born in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Half a century has passed, and we are just starting...