The financial services sector faces a potential shortage of skilled technologists and data analysts over the next five years, according to as recently published report.
Ripple has joined forces with Securitize on a smart contract that allows holders of BlackRock and VanEck tokenised funds to exchange their shares to Ripple for the firm’s stablecoin.
Total global investment in fintech fell from $62.3 billion across 2,287 deals in H2’23 to $51.9 billion across 2,255 deals in H1’24.
The finance sector’s decision to ape Big Tech and adopt platform business models enabled and powered by the mass acquisition and manipulation of data is creating new risks for society, warns a report from the Finance Innovation Lab.
Economic headwinds continued to affect auto origination volume in the first quarter, but affordability concerns eased in the second quarter. …
UAE-based Optasia, a AI-powered fintech, has listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in one of the country’s biggest IPOs in recent years.
Italy’s Sella Group is trialling a a biometric recognition credit card that allows people to make payments by using their fingerprint.
Indirect subprime lender Southern Auto Finance Co. inked a $100 million warehouse facility with Deutsche Bank this week and extended…
Ripple did not violate federal securities law by selling the XRP token on public exchanges and through algorithms, a US judge has ruled in a major win for the cryptocurrency industry.
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is working with Mastercard to allow customers in the UK and Europe to spend their crypto at over 150 million merchants worldwide.