Regulators worldwide, but especially in the United Kingdom and Singapore, are starting to see themselves as FinTech change agents: they are working to define new regulatory regimes to fit today’s rapidly evolving financial products. FinTech startups and investors must pay close attention, according to speakers at the Morningstar FinTech Forum, held on May 24 in New York. New … [Read more...] about Regulation Creates FinTech Opportunities
A Golden Age of FinTech
Financial technology is heading into its next inflection point. The financial services industry’s last transformation, mobile and digital systems and apps, is morphing yet again into the age of platforms and machine learning. The FinTech revolution is evolving into a phase of innovation in which addressing customer needs, expectations, and preferences takes precedence over … [Read more...] about A Golden Age of FinTech
ICOs and BTC
THE WEEK IN FINTECH 12/18/17 Well, what else? There is other FinTech news in banking and payments, but capital markets got most of the FinTech attention in the last week. Even my favorite noncrypto FinTech story ended with a crypto note. Nearly 200 people attended the initial meeting of Chicago's FinTech Women (FTW), "The Future of FinTech is Female." It was a … [Read more...] about ICOs and BTC
The Payments Elephant
THE WEEK IN FINTECH 12/08/17 I moderated a meeting of the Chicago Payments Forum last night at the Accenture Innovation Center to discuss payments developments in 2017 and how they will affect the business in 2018 and beyond. In putting together the overview, it occurred to me that right up front we had to address the elephant in the room: bitcoin. At Money2020 at the end … [Read more...] about The Payments Elephant
Spare Change
THE WEEK IN FINTECH 12/01/17 "If the current financial industry is to remain relevant, it must brace for a FinTech-tonic shift of unprecedented proportions," writes Jim Marous in the Financial Brand. "FinTech carries awesome potential for creative disruption, and the financial industry—the very creators of money—must manage this global dash towards both disintermediation and … [Read more...] about Spare Change
Crypto Currents 12/01/17
The 11 biggest names in cryptocurrency right now. As bitcoin prices continue to break records, the enterprises uses of cryptofinance has cooled. The "'blockchain without bitcoin' crowd hasn’t gone away, but for the moment, it is bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that everyone is talking about and eyeing closely," reports Daniel Roberts of Yahoo Finance. The media outlet just … [Read more...] about Crypto Currents 12/01/17