Category: Fintech

June 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

BT teams up with FinTech start-up ipushpull

BT has announced the availability of ipushpull’s live data sharing and collaboration services to members of the BT Radianz Cloud financial community. ipushpull, a London-based fintech, provides financial markets firms with secure cloud-based data and document sharing services to help speed up decision making, boost productivity and improve efficiency. Its platform allows real-time data to…

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May 15, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse to launch FinTech Acceleration platform

Deutsche Börse Group and its post-trade services provider Clearstream announced that they will partner with Germany-based FinTech figo and Luxembourg-based RegTech start-up Finologee to create a common FinTech Acceleration Platform. The launch is targeted for the fourth quarter of 2018, subject to regulatory approval. The new platform will enable established financial industry players and new…

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May 15, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monetary Authority of Singapore and AMBD sign FinTech cooperation agreement

The Autoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam (AMBD) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that they have signed a FinTech Cooperation Agreement (CA) to foster innovation in financial services between Brunei Darussalam and Singapore. The FinTech CA will facilitate the sharing of information on emerging FinTech trends and developments, and promote joint innovation projects between…

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May 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Finastra joins Finance Innovation hub

Finastra announced that it has joined Finance Innovation – a community focused on supporting innovation across all areas of financial services in France. The innovation hub brings banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions together with Fintech firms, industry bodies and academics to collaborate and drive innovation across the industry. Hugh Cumming, CTO, Platforms at…

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April 26, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Singapore and Vietnam enhance fintech cooperation

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) have announced that they have agreed to establish a new partnership to encourage FinTech innovation and to strengthen cooperation in banking supervision. The new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between MAS and SBV on financial innovation will facilitate joint innovation projects between…

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March 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA and ASIC strengthen cooperation on FinTech

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and ASIC informed that they have signed an Enhanced Cooperation Agreement between their Innovation Hubs to extend their existing agreement of cooperation and coordination on fintech innovation. This agreement forms part of the broader Fintech Bridge signed by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Australian Treasurer.…

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February 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

French Fintech Lemon Way selects Accuity to streamline its financial crime compliance process

Accuity, the provider of financial crime compliance, payments and counterparty know-your-customer (KYC) solutions, has embarked on a project to help payment solutions company, Lemon Way, to more efficiently identify financial crime and flag potentially high-risk customers. Lemon Way has chosen to implement Firco Compliance Link, an Accuity solution which will enable the business to streamline…

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February 26, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC and FINMA sign Fintech cooperation agreement

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to establish a framework for cooperation on financial technology (Fintech). Under the agreement, the SFC and FINMA will cooperate to share information on emerging Fintech trends, developments and related regulatory issues as well…

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