Tag: fintech

MAS Monetary Authority of Singapore
November 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monetary Authority Of Singapore issues FinTech regulatory sandbox guidelines

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published its regulatory sandbox guidelines to encourage and enable experimentation of solutions that utilise technology innovatively to deliver financial products or services. The guidelines incorporate feedback from the public consultation as well as learning points from actual sandbox applications. The guidelines will improve the clarity, flexibility and transparency…

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November 10, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream evaluates potential of Blockchain

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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October 25, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Paysafe launches EMV-enabled global omni-channel services through expanded partnership with Handpoint

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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October 25, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Colt to revamp Japanese network infrastructure

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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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

PineByte updates FX Junction social trading website

FinTech 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…

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October 18, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

IbanFirst raises €10M to become the new online financial service platform for SMEs

Fintech 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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Protrader risk control
September 30, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

PFSOFT extends Protrader risk control rules

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…

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September 28, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

The AMF is launching AGILITY, a welcome program for management firms and FinTech companies based in the UK

The 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,…

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September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Barclays signs contracts with six fintech startups

Barclays 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…

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