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While developing its revolutionary blockchain-based KYC platform, traceto.io has also been busy forming partnerships with other blockchain industry pioneers like the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) and Kyber Network. Its newest partnerships with Krytono Exchange and Spiking.io shows that they continue to make significant progress towards realising their vision of being a global leader in developing simpler, faster and more …

By Nathan Gore. Blockchain in 2018; the fun and games are done, bring on funding and growth. With the Wild West that was 2017 quickly disappearing over the horizon, 2018 has already proven to be the beginning of Blockchain’s true realisation; legitimate use-cases, proper corporate structure, actual governance. Bye bye …

By Kate Goldfinch. Banking has changed significantly over the past ten years. Consumers now expect an ultra-personalised user experience wherever they are. Now it’s up to the banks to get on board. The Fintech Times moderated an exciting panel discussing “Banking in 2028 – the state of the industry“ at …

2Checkout (formerly Avangate), an eCommerce, payments and subscription billing solutions provider, released its Q1 2018 benchmark report on Digital Commerce Trends in Software & Online Services Sales. The report shows that subscription-based purchases maintain a strong upward trend. Similar to previous years, consumers and businesses continue to prioritise security product …

The first meeting of the UK’s new Cryptoassets Taskforce took place on Monday, 21st May 2018. The Taskforce agreed its objectives, which include exploring the impact of cryptoassets, the potential benefits and challenges of the application of distributed ledger technology in financial services, and assessing what, if any, regulation is …

David Pope, Marketing Director, HooYu  HooYu is a global identity confirmation service used not only by businesses that need to check their customers are who they say they are, but also by consumers who want to check another person’s identity. HooYu helps protect consumers from scams and financial loss by …

Positive Technologies released a new report, Bank Attacks 2018, detailing that banks have built up formidable barriers to prevent external attacks, yet fall short in defending against internal attackers. Whether by puncturing the perimeter with social engineering, vulnerabilities in web applications, or the help of insiders, as soon as attackers access …

Retail bank executives are reviewing their digital strategies, with 61% developing niche propositions and others, to varying degrees, opening up and giving access to new third parties.  Banks are now more concerned with technology-driven trends than they are by regulation according to an in-depth study released by Temenos, a banking …

Tradeshift, a large business commerce platform in supply chain payments and marketplaces, launched an industry first: becoming the only cloud platform to bring supply chain payments, supply chain finance, and blockchain-based early payments together into one unified end-to-end solution, Tradeshift Pay. With these innovations, Tradeshift takes aim at a $9 trillion problem–namely, …

Innovate Finance, the independent membership association that represents the UK’s global fintech community, alongside WPI Economics, released a report on the potential effects of future changes to the country’s immigration policy on the UK fintech sector. The report provides new insight on the scope of the UK fintech sector, which …