Tag: financial industry

Financial institutions across the globe will allocate almost half (48%) of their IT budget to spending on public cloud services in 2020, up from...

There are 393 private companies around the world classified as unicorns. This term, coined in recent years to reference companies valued at $1B+, has...

The Fintech industry comprises a whole range of financial services and products that share a basic principle: all of these services must be based...

The third set of banking customer satisfaction results have been published following a survey of thousands of customers.Personal and small business current account holders...

The Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group, which brings together major post-trade industry participants and regulators to drive the transformation of distributed ledger technologies within...

European banks earned a combined US$ 13.3 billion worth of investment banking fees globally during the first six months of 2019 JP Morgan...

Islamic banking products are becoming famous day by day in the UAE among Muslims as well as non-Muslim people. One of the most famous...

Saxo Bank and BinckBank has announced that Saxo Bank has finally completed the acquisition of BinckBank. The acquisition of online bank BinckBank marks an...

RegTech refers to technological solutions that streamline and improve regulatory processes. In contrast to FinTech’s inherently financial focus, RegTech has the potential to be...

The industry of money transfers has evolved greatly since humans started bartering goods millennia ago. Today we can put some names to the forces...

Danish investment bank Saxo Bank has declared his Offer for BinckBank unconditional after approximately 94.36% of the Shares have been tendered under the Offer. These...

Goldman Sachs has dominated the latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) league table of the top 10 financial advisers for the consumer sector based on...

Total number of companies currently operating in the DIFC stands at 2,289 – a 14 percent increase year-on-year and a 7 percent increase...

The Co-operative Bank nearly doubles its free introductory period from 18 months to 30 months for new SME banking customers – as official...

eVestment, the institutional investment data and analytics, has announced an agreement with Eurekahedge to offer Eurekahedge fund data and indices to clients of eVestment’s suite...

Hedgethink has had the chance to interview Hirander Misra, chairman and CEO of GMEX Group and other innovative projects such as MINDEX and FinComEco. In...

Hirander Misra is the Chairman and CEO of GMEX Group, a suite of solutions for the creation & operation of electronic exchanges and post trade infrastructure,...

Fintech is a growing sector. New startups and big banks are all embracing technology to enhance greatly their services. Its impact can be felt...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority are looking to drastically reform overdrafts in banks and building societies. The new rules, which will come into effect...

By Bob Meara, senior analyst with Celent's banking practiceWe asked that question in the past several biennial surveys of North American banks and credit unions. In...

By Joshua Roberts, Associate Director at JCRARegulators around the globe are attempting to steer markets away from the self-reported, manipulation-prone IBOR family towards benchmark...

Specialist lender Cynergy Bank is launching a £500m fund to help property entrepreneurs continue to invest and make the most of opportunities during Britain’s...

The UK’s pending departure from the EU could stifle the rapid growth of the fintech sector, according to a recent report from global recruiter...

Wells Fargo and Bank of America tried, unsuccessfully, to appeal to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to exclude the “median pay gap” proxy...

Fraud and money laundering are two major issues in the current financial services industry. Institutions, private and public, have come up with a whole...