Annual News

By Omar Faridi Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, a Malta-based digital asset exchange, recently predicted that Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, would eventually launch its own cryptocurrency. Amazon will have to issue a currency...

By Dinuke Ranasinghe 2018 has been a significant year for e-commerce. Just recently, we saw record breaking global sales numbers with US$7.9 billion transacted across Cyber Monday in the US and US$30.8 billion on Alibaba alone on Singles Day. Analysts...

  Ping Identity has released its annual cybersecurity predictions for 2019. Among the top five trends in the coming year are a decrease in successful attacks against multi-factor authentication (MFA), a proliferation of zero trust security...

  That was a big takeaway this week from the Paris Fintech Forum, one of the biggest annual gatherings of its kind in Europe. On Tuesday and Wednesday, about 3,000 entrepreneurs, investors, bankers, and regulators...

  With the launch of several new banks in South Africa and the disruption caused by digitalisation, the incumbents are re-aligning themselves to better support a digital environment. Newcomers must work hard to attract a customer...

By Pedro Bizarro Pedro Bizarro, Feedzai`s CSO, reveals three breakthroughs in fraud management which are designed to tackle real-time payments risks: OpenML, AutoML and Genome The fight against financial crime is changing and banks are struggling to...

  Artificial intelligence has started — slowly — to make its presence felt in payments and commerce, including in fraud prevention, via early deployments of the technology and cutting-edge AI algorithms. And with those deployments comes increasing...

 By Laura Crozier, CFA, Global Industry Director, Banking at Software AG  The banking industry has been rocked by digital disruption. With customer expectations being set by experiences beyond financial services, banks have increasingly accelerated their...

  Después del éxito tremendo del Fintech Fórum organizado por Fintechnews.org en colaboración con Feria de Valencia – Forinvest 2018 -, el Fórum ha estado de gira en Estados Unidos, concretamente en Nueva York, en...

By Soumik Roy WITH cross-border communications soaring and digital transactions becoming more rampant, fighting money laundering has become more complicated than it previously was. As a result, financial institutions are experimenting with all kinds of technology to...

By Bertrand Borg Bank of Valletta was forced to shut down all its operations on Wednesday after detecting a cyber attack on its systems. It is the first time hackers' attempts to infiltrate a Maltese bank has been...

This article was co-written by Chris Davis and Brandon Metzger. From detailed homework review to back office automation, progress in artificial intelligence will continue to explode in the year ahead. In 2018, Metis Strategy interviewed...

By LYNNE MAREK  Chicago is becoming a battleground for cryptocurrency kiosk companies looking to attract the city’s early adopters of digital currencies like bitcoin, ether and litecoin. Atlanta-based Lux Vending is the latest to arrive, deploying...

By Peng T. Ong In October 2018, Grab raised US$200 million to expand its fintech offerings. That means it’s no longer just a ride-hailing service: it is now one of Southeast Asia’s largest non-bank financial firms,...

By Marten Nelson    Prompted by open banking, the big established banks will unlock new waves of fintech innovation by allowing a diverse range of external parties to connect securely with their core banking mechanisms. Or...