During the last years, fintech has been one of the main topics that dominate the debate of blockchain use cases. Blockchain in commercial financing has been a hot topic, as the Swiss and Australian stock exchanges are taking steps to incorporate distributed accounting technology. However, within the blockchain and crypto…
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Since its appearance in the USA and the United Kingdom about 10 years ago, new financial technologies have spread around the world. Now, after years of proliferation, countries around the world are beginning to see their fintech industries mature. In addition, we continue to attend the birth of new hubs…
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A total of 686 million euros of venture capital flowed. This is according to a survey by the consulting firm Barkow Consulting. Which is in the first quarter of 2019 to financial startups from the Federal Republic. From January to March, German fintechs have collected so much money as never…
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The five star hotel in Switzerland, The Dolder Grand, has announced that customers can now settle their accounts in bitcoin or ether. In a tweet, the Zurich based luxury hotel announced that it was the first facility of its kind to accept cryptocurrency payments. The cryptographic payment function is being…
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Mexico City. Banco Santander México has defined its relationship and alliance with financial technology companies (Fintech) as strategic, for this reason it announced that it will promote, in collaboration with the Embassy of the United Kingdom in the country, a study on the challenges, perspectives and opportunities for the development…
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UBS opens its interfaces for fintech providers in various European countries. However, the step is not entirely voluntary. With the support of Munich-based Ndgit, UBS has opened a “sandpit” where third-party vendors have been able to romp around since 14 March to rehearse the connection to the big bank. This…
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The payment giant PayPal has made its first investment in a blockchain company. They have invested in Cambridge Blockchain. A company that helps financial institutions and other companies manage confidential data, such as personal identification in shared ledgers. The PayPal financing was part of an extension of the Series A…
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In the framework of the second edition of the CEO Summit Open Innovation, the main banks of Peru expressed the importance of betting on open innovation hand in hand with the fintech. The central theme of the meeting was “Open Innovation in Financial Services and Banking” and reflected on the…
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The Bank of Spain is concerned about the progress that large technological corporations such as Google and Facebook can have within the financial sector. Although it is still not clear what role they will play, nor what will be adopted by the big fintechs, the regulator does believe that it…
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The process is different thought, developed from scratch – and he convinced. How Neo-Bank Yapeal takes new customers on board. The FinTech Yapeal is building a completely new digital bank on a greenfield site – “front-to-back”, complete with a state-of-the-art cloud native backend, scalable system (low costs), own APIs and…
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