Looking towards the horizon, the FinTech industry is set to be a strong influencing factor on the financial industry. The role that Blockchain may play for example is intriguing – and there’s little doubt that its advantages will potentially be harnessed in the not too distant future. Within a five to ten year timeframe there’s…
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Digital payment solutions provider Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) has expanded its long-term partnership with FinTech provider powering NextGen point of sale (POS) Handpoint, to offer EMV-ready mobile point of sale and online payment solutions to merchants and partners in Canada, the US and Europe. Through this partnership, Paysafe offers end-to-end frictionless payments online, in-store and…
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Telecommunications company Colt Group S.A. (LSE: COLT) has announced a major revamp of their advanced fibre-optic network, as well as extensive Layer 2 network expansion in Japan. This will enable high-bandwidth services with speeds ranging from 10Gbps up to 100Gbps on mass scale, with greater routes and diversity. The phased expansion of both available services and…
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A blockchain platform developed by a group that includes more than 70 of the world's biggest financial institutions is making its code publicly available, in what could become the industry standard for the nascent technology. The Corda platform has been developed by a consortium brought together by New-York-based financial technology company R3. It represents the…
Read moreFinTech company PineByte has released its new social trading website, FX Junction. The open social trading network, FX Junction is now mobile friendly and offers many new features to engage its members to easily communicate with each other, analyze and learn from the performance of themselves and others with the goal to make better trading…
Read moreFintech company IbanFirst, specialized in international payments with real-time exchange rate access, raises €10 Million announcing their next growth phase as well as new innovative online financial services for SMEs, available in Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) mode. With BaaS, IbanFirst can bring together all Fintech companies under one single web platform to provide the day to day financial…
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The fintech developer PFSOFT has extended a set of risk rules for its Protrader solution to meet requirements from proprietary trading firms. The new set of rules added to current risk measures encompasses settings like: daily and weekly loss limits maximum value of all positions maximum trailing drawdown Protrader is a multi-asset single dealer environment for instruments and…
Read moreThe Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is pursuing its commitment to making the Paris financial market more appealing by launching AGILITY, a program devoted to guiding financial firms through the French authorisation process. It will provide a range of services, notably helping financial firms authorised in the UK set up in France. With 2WeekTicket pre-authorisation,…
Read moreBarclays Bank (NYSE:BCS) has signed contracts with six accelerator graduates participating in its accelerator programme in New York. The deeper engagement with Barclays comes as the ten graduates from the bank's second New York class present at a demo day to an audience of 500 banking executives and corporate partners. The 10 teams to emerge…
Read moreTradeSocio, a Fintech company founded in 2015, has announced the launch of Alpha, an alternative investment platform aimed at Forex Brokers, as well as other Financial Institutions. TradeSocio’s platform Alpha offers the experience of co-existing within a single balanced ecosystem. Up until now, it has proven difficult to house key financial players in a single ecosystem…
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