Row 1 - Latest/Ad/Opinon/Ad
Row 1 - Latest/Ad/Opinon/Ad
Fintech: Latest
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Demand for single-dealer platforms continues to drive adoption of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) in the FX space, allowing smaller players to compete with the top-tier firms in pre- and post-trade services. -
Standard Bank is the first bank in Africa to implement core banking systems SAP and Finacle, amid ever-increasing pressures to consolidate client data.
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Digital technology is set to change banking fundamentally in the years ahead. Euromoney has been writing about this a lot, while quietly wondering what it might do with a dollar for every time a grey-haired senior banker solemnly asserts it. Hence, no doubt, the email that pings into our inbox from Silicon Valley, promoting what looks like a new trade-matching or wealth-management service, called MillionaireMatch, which boasts that it runs a ‘no riff raff policy’. Quite right too, in this era of endless fines for market rigging and other offences.
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Banks cannot afford to ignore the potential value of using insights from data analytics to personalize their FX services.
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In the absence of an industry-wide consensus on faster settlement, availability of real-time FX conversion is likely to remain patchy – challenging the growth of immediate payments in corporate banking.
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Corporates are calling for banks to work more closely on cybercrime and fraud risks they face – but banks also want to see corporates being more honest about their experiences.
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Market volatility has impacted FX risk-management processes, although differing approaches to technology investment means the effect on market participants has been uneven.
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Mobile money in Africa has been dominated by Safaricom’s M-Pesa in Kenya, but the banking sector will be much better equipped to lead the sector in the long term, says one investor. However, in the short-term, regulations will prove key in determining who wins market share.
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$15 billion raised year-to-date for tech venture capital; financial services tough to disintermediate.
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Opportunity for banks same as in FX; Goldman investment ‘a positive signal’
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Payments platform Ripple Labs' fine for neglect of anti-money-laundering measures was a watershed moment for the payments industry, as it was the first time a company in the sector had been found to fall outside of compliance in the US.
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Fintech start up aims to spot market rigging, using clues in how traders talk, not what they say
