08/23/2019
NTU Singapore to develop AI-based wealth management AML capabilities
An expert panel comprising executives from UBS, DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, UOB, Commercial Affairs Department, and MAS will offer guidance for the project.
FinTech
08/23/2019
Results: Iress delivers stable half-year performance
Iress also reported that the company expects FY19 guidance to remain unchanged and in line with guidance.
08/23/2019
Robo-adviser targets ‘emerging’ wealthy individuals in Asia
The new private wealth account also has a funds platform allowing investors to purchase products only available to professional investors.
08/22/2019
AI leaders in financial services
Common traits of frontrunners in the artificial intelligence race
08/22/2019
Tiger Global invests $15mn in wealth management startup INDwealth
INDwealth plans to utilise the capital to build its technology, artificial intelligence and advisory team.
08/22/2019
Multi-asset expansion as Swissquote goes down the real estate route
Continuing its multi-asset expansion, Swissquote’s Robo-advisor service now includes ETF
08/22/2019
Swiss Fintech Startup Becomes a $1 Billion Unicorn
Numbrs raises $40 million as it looks to expand beyond Germany
08/22/2019
Why a Swiss private bank is embracing blockchain
When news leaked out last year that it was interested in the crypto business, the enquiries started flooding in.
08/21/2019
Crypto2Cash Eyes Asia Pacific for its Digital to Fiat Currencies Settlement Solutions
The first step for a client wanting to transact through Crypto2Cash is, of course, account creation, followed by verification of documents and then the depositing of the customer’s cryptos into a wallet the firm generates for each client.
08/21/2019
Robo targets ‘emerging HNWIs’
The market segment is believed to be underserved by boutique wealth managers.
08/20/2019
Deposit Solutions partners with Close Brothers to collect from Switzerland
The new partnership comes at a time, in which banks in Switzerland are not paying interest on euro savings accounts.
08/20/2019
Finance Needs People Who Work Well With Robots
Artificial intelligence is displacing jobs, but also creating new ones.
08/20/2019
Avaloq successfully onboards Banque Morval onto Intesa Sanpaolo’s BPaaS solution in just nine months
The merger of Intesa Sanpaolo Private Bank (Suisse), the Italian Intesa Sanpaolo group’s Swiss private banking subsidiary, and Banque Morval was completed in April last year and created the new legal entity Intesa Sanpaolo Private Bank (Suisse) Morv
08/19/2019
Mauritius to embrace Blockchain Technology
Considerable technological investment and appropriate employee training will need to be implemented in the coming months.
08/19/2019
Swissquote gets the green light to expand into Asia
This move comes one year after Swissquote pushed for a greater share of the European market by acquiring Luxembourg-based competitor Internaxx.
08/19/2019
China Central Bank Crypto Can Canabalize Alipay, Wechat Pay -Analyst
In addition, the digital currency could help limit capital outflows.
08/18/2019
China’s New Model of Blockchain-Driven Philanthropy
Blockchain has done more than simply enable Chinese social entrepreneurs to improve the transparency, trustworthiness, and fundraising of the country’s charitable causes. It has helped launch a more decentralized and autonomous philanthropic sector.
08/16/2019
Can RPA Tools Transform Investment Management, Creating Winners, Losers and New Players?
It is easy to see how bots can bring even greater efficiency here.
08/15/2019
Portuguese banks back Open API platform
The promise is that the platform acts as a hub that lets startups and other fintechs tap into bank data to provide consumers with new services, boosting competition while also offering opportunities for collaboration.
08/15/2019
Paid blogging is ‘big business’ for robo advisors
Wealthfront was among the first of two robos to settle an enforcement action with the SEC in part for failing to fully disclose that it paid for referrals.