The Fintech Times

21 September

How to Build a Global Ecosystem for Blockchain Technology

The ‘How to Build a Global Ecosystem for Blockchain Technology’ event was held on Saturday afternoon, London time, sponsored by B20 (www.b20.io) and NORN (www.norn.ai). B20 is the 20 Nations League of Blockchain founded by practitioners very recently. NORN is an AI-infused smart business system. The event started with Hui …

20 September

What Is The Testnet?

EON Blockchain Testnet Will Be Launched On October 4th! Here Is A Brief Description Of What The Testnet Actually Is And What To Expect At Launch. What is the testnet? The testnet is an early version of EON blockchain. Its starting functionality includes four main types of transactions: Account registration; …

20 September

Pennies’ Digital Charity Box Now Accepting In-App Donations With Apple Pay

Pennies, the fintech charity, digitises the traditional collection tin – enabling consumers to round-up or top-up by a few pence when they pay. Over the last seven years, Pennies has collected over 40 millon micro-donations across 60 participating retailers, including Domino’s, Boots Opticians, and Virgin Holidays. The move gives customers the opportunity to donate using the digital charity box …

20 September

eWise Introduces Free Trial Of Categorisation-as-a-Service API For Developers

September 19th, 2017: eWise, a leading international provider of financial data aggregation and data analytics APIs, is now giving free access to Categorisation-as-a-Service (CaaS) API, allowing early stage developers to quickly test their business solutions. eWise CaaS automatically categorises users’ financial transactions. It is available as a standalone API that …

20 September

Cyberport And HKMA Lead Hong Kong’s Largest Fintech Delegation To London

HONG KONG, 20 September 2017 – Hong Kong Cyberport (Cyberport) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) bring the largest FinTech delegation to London from 19 to 21 September to expand partnership network for FinTech industry players between the two cities. This is part of the annual ICT delegation co-organised by Cyberport and the …

19 September

The LHoFT Foundation and Stellar Development Foundation Partner to Advance Discussion and Research on ICOs

The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology Foundation (LHoFT) and the Stellar Development Foundation have collaborated to release a white paper that explores and explains the ICO boom. The LHoFT and the Stellar Development Foundation spent two months speaking with developers, regulators, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, to gather information and diverse perspectives …

18 September

LUNCH WITH…Premonition

Guy Kurlandski, CEO | Toby Unwin, CIO | Ian Dodd, UK Director Subjects: Disruption, AI, Lawtech, Sushi • Premonition | www.premonition.ai Few businesses could be more contentious in their sector. The company seems to inspire a strong love / hate reaction in everyone who comes into contact with them, ambivalence …

18 September

Earlymarket Welcomes Engenie Into Their Portfolio

Earlymarket participated in Engenie’s Series A round, which was successfully closed in August this year. Engenie is focusing on providing high-power rapid charging facilities for vehicles, and have already completed seven rapid charging point installations. They plan on being the first EV operator in the UK to partner with a …

14 September

JobLab Investment

JobLab, a London-based technology startup that helps businesses hire graduate talent, has announced plans to build the Google for Candidates, a search engine based recruitment tool, after closing their second round of funding in August this year. The round was led by early-stage VC Earlymarket LLP. Five additional investors participated …

14 September

The Future Of Innovation: Startups And Corporates To Work Under One Roof By 2025

Unilever Foundry launches global study into corporate and startup collaboration at Dmexco today 80% of corporates believe that startups can have a positive impact on a large company’s approach to innovation 46% of startups who have not worked with corporates are likely to do so in the future 89% startups believe they’re …

14 September

Andrew Zimine Speaks At Nextgen Payments & Regtech Leaders Forum

Andrew Zimine’s speech at the Nextgen Payments & Regtech Leaders Forum was successful. Andrew Zimine was happy to take part in this inspiring event and his speech attracted the attention of many participants. Andrew was invited to the NGP & Regtech Leaders Forum as a keynote speaker. This time he talked …

13 September

The key steps to comply with new EU regulation

With only 10 months remaining before the GDPR deadline, businesses are urged to start taking action to ensure they can demonstrate the technical operational measures necessary to meet the 25 May 2018 deadline. Six key steps will guide you through the process of achieving the new regulation terms I was …

13 September

Billon Gains Acceptance To Fintech71 Start-Up Accelerator

US$100,000 investment in Billon Potential to support USD operations in 2018 Access to a broad network of blue-chip financial services and retail companies Connected to world-class mentors from a broad range of industries Billon Group, today announces it has been accepted into the non-profit Fintech accelerator Fintech71 based in the …

13 September

Shoppers And Retail Finance: Who? What? Why?

Retail finance has exploded in the past few years. Merchants are increasingly understanding the benefits it can have for the growth of their business, particularly in the current climate; boosting conversion rates, increasing average order values and improving customer satisfaction. But do they know just how large an audience it …

13 September

How Banks Can Improve Their Email Marketing Campaigns

There are many challenges for banks when it comes to email marketing, however, there are also many ways to overcome such struggles. Finding solutions to such qualms is also incredibly worthwhile, as email marketing is one of the most cost-effective means of getting your brand out there, while retaining and …

13 September

Why Retailers Need To Offer Finance To Their Customers This Black Friday 2017

It’s a strange phenomenon. When it started, no one is certain. Where it started, some guess Philadelphia, USA. How it became one of the world’s largest sales holidays, that’s anyone’s guess. But one thing is for certain – Black Friday has taken over our retail landscape and brands cannot afford …

13 September

Upgrade, Zopa, Starling Bank, Harvard and 10x Future Technologies confirmed as speakers at this year’s LendIt Europe

LendIt Europe, the largest European event series specialising in fintech and lending, has confirmed its key note speakers for this years’ event. More than 120 speakers will take to the stage with expertise spanning banking, lending, technology and regulation. The two-day conference will offer a combination of keynote speeches, interactive …

12 September

A short guide to EON blockchain

EON is a decentralized blockchain-based platform which is the infrastructure of the Exscudo Ecosystem services. The platform is designed to be flexible and rapid, with standard load three times bigger than the Bitcoin’s blockchain. Our platform addresses typical blockchain problems of low transaction per second bandwidth and extensive memory usage …

12 September

Givenchy & R/GA London Unveil Service-Orientated Online Platform

PARIS, September 12th, 2017 — As a prelude to the presentation of Clare Waight Keller’s first ready-to-wear collection for Givenchy, the house is pleased to unveil its sleek and intuitive new omni-channel e-commerce platform. Overseen by the house’s new artistic director and created in collaboration with the international digital innovation …

12 September

MYPINPAD asks the question…

How will PCI Legitimise Card PIN Authentication on Mobile Devices? This article was first published by MyPinPad.com, we thought it was worth sharing. The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC)’s Chief Technology Officer Troy Leach recently divulged news of a new payment standard; one that enables the secure entry …

11 September

Techstars: A Blueprint For Corporate Innovation

Interview with Chris Adelsbach, Managing Director at Techstars “Techstars…the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed.” That’s underselling it slightly…It’s also a multi billion dollar organisation. Techstars Stats • 168 countries • 10,000 mentors. • 300,000 alumni from tech stars programmes, including startup programmes • 30 Techstars accelerators on 5 continents • Boulder is …

11 September

What Can UK P2P Learn From Žltý Melón?

Fintnews: First of all, what does ŽLTÝ MELÓN do? ŽLTÝ MELÓN: “We are a P2P platform connecting borrowers and investors / savers. It’s a win for both parties, as by cutting out the middleman (banks) and because of our lower overhead costs, we are able to provide a better deal for …

11 September

Transparency Creates Transparency

With mis-selling costing financial services literally billions, the commercial case for transparency continues to become clearer. Fintnews, the world’s fintech news agency, talks to VoxSmart CEO Oliver Blower. In a nutshell, VoxSmart’s main product, ‘VSmart’ allows any communication carried out over a mobile connection to be recorded and stored in …

11 September

Free The Finance For Freelancers

Having previously worked side by side developing p2p inside apps for rbs and natwest, co-founders Ivo and Dan’s frustration as freelancers lead them towards creating Albert – a solution for managing finances for freelancers. Travelling for work between L.A and London, they realised that there was no simple way to …

11 September

Saxo Payments CEO Anders La Cour On The Future

Fintnews: Firstly, what does Saxo Payments do? Anders: The short answer is we are a financial utility… we believe the transition in financial sectors is creating a huge digital global market, with many companies delivering financial services. For many of these players it doesn’t make sense for them to develop their …

11 September

Can You Add More Frictions Please?

Fintnews: Hi Mark, can you explain what your company does, first of all? Mark: “Our main role is to act as an intermediary between our blue chip clients and consumers, to be the voice of the consumer and use the insight gathered to drive change in the business. Sometimes that …

11 September

Trade Management…Hedgd

Hedgd is a London-based startup that is “ready to disrupt the trade management market.”Actually they’re not. they’re facilitating it. which is a far better proposition. Fintnews asks the questions. Fintnews: What’s it about? Oliver: We are launching technology company in the financial services sector. I used to be a buyer …

11 September

Blockchain…A Techno-Philosophy For Our Time…

Extracts from an esoteric conversation between Fintnews and Gabriel Dusil of Adelphoi.io Fintnews: I’ve been watching American Gods, just to catch up on human affairs, and it’s sent my mind into an esoteric place, which is ideal for thinking about blockchain. Gabriel: Some people leaving school … see blockchain as …

11 September

Lunch With Axelisys

Ethar Alali, the CEO of Axelisys, is having lunch when I call him for an interview. Even so, he’s happy to detail his company’s achievements, and equally fascinating creative structure. He tells me they do three things. Number one, outsourced R & D and prototyping, number two, software development, and …

11 September

Riding Australian Tech Waves

Profile: MyFirmsApp is the “World’s leading and largest App developer for financial service firms”, which specialises in providing the only “compliant, approved and endorsed accountancy App” MyFirmsApp has a global 24/7 client base, “all employees are hired in the UK” and the time scale for building an App is 5 …

11 September

Expansion Factors of Paytech

Hello Tony, please tell me what you do, what EPA is? The EPA is Emerging Payment Association, we’re a trade association, and we manage the biggest community of progressive companies in the payments industry. We define the payments industry as any organisation involved with helping people move money, … between …

11 September

ROBO.CASH Gains Traction In The European P2P Market

The steady growth of the automated P2P platform has been proved by the results of the company performance within the first six-month period of its work from the 1st of March until the 31st of August 2017. The young platform Robo.cash marked the first six months of work in the European …

11 September

Avelacom Chooses Metamako To Offer Fastest FPGA-Based Connectivity Solution

Moscow, Russia, London, UK, 07 September 2017 – Global connectivity provider Avelacom announced today that it is now using Metamako, the leading specialist provider of FPGA-enabled, high-performance networking devices, to significantly accelerate its network processing power and keep latency to an absolute minimum. The solution meets the needs of HFT firms …

11 September

Longest-standing CIO of RBS’ chilling new book on the real threat of data hacks & cyber terrorism!

A new kind of terrorist…Trading Down by Stephen Norman Published by Endeavour Press 9th November 2017, eBook £2.99 “If this program is run, it will destroy this bank as surely as a neutron bomb.” A chilling financial thriller that brings home the true threat of cyber terrorism, perfect for fans of …

8 September

Global Processing Services Supports Apple Pay For Issuers

LONDON, UK – September 7, 2017 – Global Processing Services (GPS), a leading payments processor, now supports Apple Pay using Mastercard Digital Enablement Service (MDES). Apple Pay is now available to all clients using the pioneering GPS Apex platform. Apple Pay is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast …

The ‘How to Build a Global Ecosystem for Blockchain Technology’ event was held on Saturday aft…

EON Blockchain Testnet Will Be Launched On October 4th! Here Is A Brief Description Of What The Test…

Pennies, the fintech charity, digitises the traditional collection tin – enabling consumers to round…

September 19th, 2017: eWise, a leading international provider of financial data aggregation and data…

HONG KONG, 20 September 2017 – Hong Kong Cyberport (Cyberport) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority …

The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology Foundation (LHoFT) and the Stellar Development Foundati…

Guy Kurlandski, CEO | Toby Unwin, CIO | Ian Dodd, UK Director Subjects: Disruption, AI, Lawtech, Sus…

Earlymarket participated in Engenie’s Series A round, which was successfully closed in August …

JobLab, a London-based technology startup that helps businesses hire graduate talent, has announced …

Unilever Foundry launches global study into corporate and startup collaboration at Dmexco today 80% …

Andrew Zimine’s speech at the Nextgen Payments & Regtech Leaders Forum was successful. Andrew Zi…

US$100,000 investment in Billon Potential to support USD operations in 2018 Access to a broad networ…

Retail finance has exploded in the past few years. Merchants are increasingly understanding the bene…

There are many challenges for banks when it comes to email marketing, however, there are also many w…

It’s a strange phenomenon. When it started, no one is certain. Where it started, some guess Philadel…

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