Fintech News

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...

(by Long Chen, China Economic Journal) Abstract The purpose of technology is not to make finance better, but to make finance serve real life better. Fintech has grown much faster in China than in the United...

(by www.bankiafintech.com) El sector, en permanente cambio y crecimiento, genera ya en España empleo para 2.000 personas Finance and Technology, de la unión de estos dos términos surge la palabra fintech. Bajo esta denominación se incluyen todas aquellas empresas de servicios financieros que...

  Ignore Bitcoin’s challenges. In this interview, Don Tapscott explains why blockchains, the technology underpinning the cryptocurrency, have the potential to revolutionize the world economy. What impact could the technology behind Bitcoin have? According to Tapscott...

(By Kate, letstalkpayments.com) Africa is the largest unserved market that has dropped out of sight of the global financial system. Some estimations suggest that there are ~330 million adult Africans, who lack access to formal...

Switzerland has recently proposed a new law which would make the national fintech market more open, flexible and competitive. New provisions include the introduction of a 'light-licence' for fintech startups and the creation of...

Spain’s first Fintech incubator and accelerator wants to attract talents and start-ups from Europe and Latin America. •The program includes a 16 weeks incubation in Spain and continues to use a collaborative approachas it does...