Tag: financial industry

Recent years have witnessed a surge in the use of robo-advisors as an appealing alternative to conventional investing. These online platforms gained massive popularity...

· Solo self-employed people can use Penta’s banking offer · Previously, Pentas services were only available to small and medium-sized companies, start-ups, sole proprietors and...

The effects of the ongoing coronavirus crisis are not limited to financial markets, but business operations across a widening range of industries and are...

Global stock markets have responded to the coronavirus outbreak with worrying volatility and sharp price drops, the worst in the last few decades. Despite...

While the COVID-19 pandemic poses a significant threat to mainstream industry and commerce, it will be even more devastating to Small-to-Medium Enterprises (‘SMEs’), as...

Goldman Sachs has dominated the M&A financial advisers league table based on deal value in the first quarter of the year. Likewise, Citi is...

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA) publishes a new guidance on digital identification and authentication to help combat financial crime.The EPA has released a series...

Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) are one of only a few hedge fund strategies that performed well throughout the market selloffs of 2000-2002, 2008 and...

GMEX started as a FinTech company focused on supplying technology to traditional exchanges with a partnership driven approach. Over the last few years, we’ve...

The shape of the coronavirus’ impact on the finance industry in the Asia-Pacific region is coming into focus with leading indicators of sector health...

Banking is set to change in the coming decade, and it is up to institutions to choose a path in transforming their operations. Challenged...

Fintech is at a tipping point. Financial technology startups and companies have truly disrupted the financial services value chain. This is a thriving sector...

After a year defined by a wave of mergers - many of those involving major banking institutions in the Middle East - the financial...

Chinese banks continue to dominate the Asian Banker 500 (AB500) list. The so-called “Big Four” Chinese banks top the ranking, with Industrial and Commercial...

Hedge funds fees remain under extreme pressure across the industry. This strong trend is driven by declining return expectations from investors, increased competition across...

There are many industries that fall under the “boys club” category. For all its democratic ideals, even cryptocurrency has regrettably been relegated to this...

 HSBC Holding PLC is for the seventh consecutive year Europe’s largest bank by assets. The UK based financial institution had assets totalling €2.234 trillion...

Hilton Supra is a business and financial industry veteran and thought leader. Hilton has more than 30 years of Finance, Investment, Banking and Asset...

The NatWest bank, one of the UK’s big four, recently announced that two of its financial initiatives, ESME and Rapid Cash, will now be...

 Almost 80 percent of financial institutions have entered into fintech partnerships. At the same time, global venture capital (VC) investment in fintech reached $30.8...

From China to France, Sweden to South Africa, there are many countries around the world exploring the idea of central bank digital currencies (CBDC)....

Payments have always been the backbone of the financial system and since the credit card was first released in the 1950s, technology has played...

Last year, fintech - technologies and innovations in finance competing with traditional services - experienced a surge in both the user numbers and the...

As fintech industry continues to generate buzz, experts predict it’s growth is just gaining momentum and will continue to expand rapidly in the coming...

There is a  list of global financial innovation spots around the world. And Gibraltar, the small, less than 7000 m2, rock between Spain, Europe...