Row 1 - Latest/Ad/Opinon/Ad
Row 1 - Latest/Ad/Opinon/Ad
Fintech: Latest
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Banks are slowly realising the commercial promise of data and data analytics products, but there is still a long way to go for many institutions to move beyond services that deliver limited business insight. -
Given the standardization and interoperability challenges facing digital letters of credit, could wider use of digital trade finance platforms accelerate the development of alternative solutions?
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New platforms that underwrite and process invoices due from large creditworthy payers may encourage bank and institutional financing for small and medium-sized enterprises.
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Fintechs are caught in a brutal competitive squeeze between losses on businesses they are good at and the urgent need to offer new ones.
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More fintechs are selling out to big incumbent banks, but the German pair would rather merge to achieve their vision of savings as a service.
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Digitalization may be a hot topic in the treasury world, but many financial institutions remain unconvinced that the benefits justify the cost and disruption involved in moving away from in-house servers or manual signatures.
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As provider to the London Stock Exchange and DBS on digital new issue platforms, Nivaura is laying the foundations for the future of DCM.
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A platform that promises to shake up the FX swaps market has taken another tentative step towards its objective of reducing banks’ liquidity buffer challenge.
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We are at the peak of the hype cycle for central bank digital currencies, now being touted as one of the most fundamental innovations in the history of central banking. It is time for central banks and governments to be honest with unenthused populations. CBDC can’t deliver all the many promised improvements. As we come to design choices, there will be trade-offs. We might get improved payments but less credit. We could see greater financial inclusion but will lose privacy. Are the few benefits really worth the risk of disrupting the financial system?
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With margin requirements rising sharply, banks must do a much better job managing surpluses and shortages of collateral across all their businesses.
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Paytm, whose largest shareholder is Ant Group/Alibaba, could raise India’s largest-ever IPO. It should be smoother than Ant’s own failed attempt, and that tells us something about changing regulatory positions.
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Payments company prices above range as it shrugs off regional valuation constraints on Nasdaq debut.
