Tagged: digitalization

July 14, 2023 @ 3:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MerQube, a “pioneer” in technology for next generation index-linked investing, announces USD 22 million raised in Series B funding. The investment round was “led by Intel Capital with participation from new investor Allianz Life Ventures, and existing investors Citi, J.P. Morgan, Laurion Capital Management and… Read More

July 12, 2023 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, the global payments solution provider, launches Identity Verification, its first product focused on improving the customer onboarding and identity verification process and expanding Checkout.com’s impact on customers’ digital experience. Identity Verification “utilizes proprietary artificial intelligence and is trained on billions of identity and facial… Read More

July 11, 2023 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NayaOne has added Bitpanda to its marketplace. Bitpanda, a successful platform providing crypto and brokerage services, will offer a wallet for storing digital assets, a trading platform with charting tools, and a “professional-grade API for developers.” Bitpanda Savings and Bitpanda Staking will also be part… Read More

July 11, 2023 @ 5:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NYMBUS, a provider of banking technology solutions, today announced the appointment of notable financial services advisor Glenn Kim to its Board of Directors. Mr. Kim is reportedly “a senior executive with over 35 years of experience as a capital markets investment banker, fund manager, financial… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 11:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UBS (NYSE:UBS) announced that it and Numarics are planning to enter into a strategic partnership to specifically digitize and expand financial and administration solutions for small and medium-sized companies in Switzerland. Administrative tasks mean “a lot of time for SMEs today and are often a… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital wallets are a rapidly growing technology, seeing particular growth in popularity in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an update from Juniper Research. As noted in a report from Juniper Research, they are also “important in the fields of financial inclusion, and… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 6:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

While Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) development is still nascent, there has “been considerable progress over the past five years with startups seeking to disrupt traditional, multibillion-dollar infrastructure industries such as server (cloud), wireless telecom, sensor networks, and energy and transportation,” according to an update… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has released a report which sets out three key missions “to accelerate the digital transformation of the UK’s capital markets.” The report ‘Unlocking the power of securities tokenization’, produced in conjunction with Oliver Wyman, looks at “how securities tokenization (the digital representation of… Read More

July 7, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Members of the U.S. financial services sector published the findings of a proof of concept (PoC) that explored the feasibility of the regulated liability network (RLN), which is envisioned “as an interoperable network for wholesale payments operating on a shared multi-entity distributed ledger.” While today’s… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 10:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Researchers are “cautiously optimistic” about where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will lead humanity, but they say that we “must develop more guardrails.” This is according to Pascale Fung, Chair Professor, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong SAR, China. She was speaking at the… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 12:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

According to McKinsey‘s Web3 report, the financial-services industry has primarily adopted some of these nascent digital technologies and assets. At its peak, the daily volume of transactions “processed on so-called decentralized finance exchanges exceeded $10 billion, with various market fluctuations felt in the last twelve… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As a part of their global rebranding to Pluxee across 31 countries, the French multinational giant Sodexo Benefits & Rewards Services (Sodexo BRS), a publicly listed leader in tech-enabled employee benefits and engagement platform, embarked on a journey “to embrace the world of non-fungible tokens… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 9:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The initiative, aimed at national and international teams, focuses on “developing innovative solutions and technologies” in the field of Metaverse Finance. The initiative is fostered by the Sella Group and developed by its venture incubator dpixel. Metaverse 4 Finance Accelerator is now live “representing the… Read More

July 2, 2023 @ 6:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over three-quarters or 75% of the population in Lombardy, Italy’s largest and most industrialized area, banked online this past year, compared with the national average of just 63%, the Bank of Italy recently revealed. Virtual banking in Lombardy has reportedly increased by around 20 percentage… Read More

July 2, 2023 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chris Ansara, CEO of UK-based Regtech startup docStribute and Chair, Phil Shelley, have shared their career insights on the necessity of digital transformation in order to meet FCA regulations as well as decarbonize global business. As many sectors struggle to meet regulatory demands, particularly financial… Read More

July 1, 2023 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OCBC (SGX: O39) has launched a fully digital account opening service for consumers in its key markets who are relocating to Singapore. These individuals from Malaysia, Indonesia, mainland China and Hong Kong SAR will be able to “open Singapore dollar and multi-currency accounts on the… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Confluence Technologies, Inc., a global technology solutions provider to the investment management industry, announced the first development out of its innovation lab that leverages AI technology to solve complex industry problems. As the first application, the Confluence innovation lab “applies Large Language Models (LLM) to… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, which claims to be the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, has partnered with Portuguese bank Novo Banco S.A. (Novobanco) “to further enhance the bank’s customer experience, improve its digital journey and provide best in class fraud protection.” Novobanco is a domestic… Read More

June 24, 2023 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance wants to drive the development of a digital franc and is entering into partnership with Swiss Stablecoin Ltd for this purpose. As part of a joint proof of concept, a digital image of the Swiss franc “will be released for specific use cases and… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 5:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Union has introduced the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC), a new entity that aims to focus on promoting blockchain policy in order to move Europe’s “digital decade” forward in a meaningful manner. The EDIC should become operational towards the end of 2024 and… Read More