Alternative Finance Boom Continues With 43% Growth
The maturity of alternative finance has also begun to attract increasing volumes of institutional investment. Funding from institutional investors such as pension funds, asset managers and banks...
View ArticleFinancial institutions M&A trends: UK consumer credit – Growth in specialty...
Only businesses with the healthiest consumer practices will survive and thrive. Specialty finance and marketplace lending: On the deal radars of banks and private equity firms Specialty and marketplace...
View ArticleReport explores the dental implants market
The report helps to recognize the possible future investment pockets, thereby, promotes collaborations among vendors. It anticipates challenges and restraints of the industry which help producers and...
View ArticleAustralian Securities & Investment Commission Publishes Report on Marketplace...
The Australian government and regulatory officials are keenly engaged in fostering the growth of Fintech. Marketplace lending, one of the largest sectors of Fintech, has provided a much needed new...
View ArticleAn Open Internet is Essential for Financial Inclusion, FinTech Revolution
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted today to dismantle internet “net” neutrality: a vote that determined whether the internet should be treated like a public good or service or whether it...
View ArticlePrestige Predators: Private Equity Cashes In On Payday Lending
Subprime installment loans are typically larger, with terms of several months or a few years, with effective annual interest rates that can climb into the high double-digits. Though these firms often...
View ArticleBeyond Bitcoin: How Technology Could Help Fix Our Broken Financial System
New financial networks could stop the concentration of wealth and increase participation in the economy—but only if used with care On a spring day more than 5,000 years ago in the Mesopotamian city of...
View ArticleBitcoin may now be the biggest financial bubble of all time
Last week, it had been the third largest behind the Mississippi bubble and Qualcomm. Other bubbles Birinyi studied include the the tech bubble, beanie babies, the Dow in 1929 and the silver bubble of...
View ArticleWindows 10 included password manager with huge security hole
Or, why bundling third-party apps can create risks. There’s a good reason why security analysts get nervous about bundled third-party software: it can introduce vulnerabilities that the companies can’t...
View ArticleHow Blockchain, A.I. And Other Tech Trends Will Disrupt Healthcare In 2018
The increased use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is shifting the paradigm of medical research and treatment. These advanced technologies are providing researchers real-time access to...
View ArticleBlockchain Technology, Artificial Intelligence Enabling Democratization of...
Until now, online platforms did not have the technology to manage sophisticated deals and trades because of the amount of human oversight that is needed to manage these financial instruments. Mirocana...
View ArticleA bombshell letter charges that Uber hacked into competitors’ networks and...
Travis Kalanick, Uber’s former CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images A letter has been made public that alleges Uber “fraudulently impersonates riders and drivers on competitor platforms,...
View ArticleA fintech startup wants to compete with Coinbase as a platform for trading...
Swedish-born Alexander Wallin is scaling up his social trading app Sprinklebit all over the world by partnering with banks. Business Insider Nordic had a one-on-one with him in the fintech startup’s...
View ArticleHealthcare draws election-year worry, but 2016 repeat not seen
NEW YORK (Reuters) – With another election year looming, investors in the healthcare sector are wary the coming months could reopen wounds suffered during the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Healthcare...
View ArticleSenate Democrats to force vote on FCC net neutrality repeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. Senate Democrat said on Friday he would force a vote on the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal landmark net neutrality rules, but the move was...
View ArticleOSSimTech continues to grow with a $2.15 million input from the Government of...
“It is wonderful to be recognized for our innovation, especially by the medical and surgical communities that have used and tested our Sim-Ortho simulator. We are also grateful for the technical and...
View ArticleDelta’s CEO explains why airline computers fail and how tech will change flying
After all, the years following 9/11 and the financial crisis … money we had to spend on technology was just to keep the lights on.” “It was all about ‘break’ ‘fix’ which means if something breaks you...
View ArticleUBS sees non-banking financial companies lining up for IPOs in 2018
“The view of sponsors in India is positive. There are four sectors where 60-70% of the sponsors would want to focus which include technology, financial services, healthcare and industrial and business...
View ArticleMixed financial fortunes for Dell’s main Irish subsidiaries
Recently filed accounts show Dell Products, which sells and distributes the group’s technology products in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, reported a $5.3 million pretax profit in its last financial...
View ArticleFormer US Treasury Chief Jacob J Lew to Speak at Asian Financial Forum (AFF)...
Asia and Beyond,” policymakers as well as financial and business leaders will examine topical issues in global and regional economies. Innovation and technology will be a prioritised component of the...
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