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Things we’re reading today include … MiCA laws come into effect in Europe — Here’s what you need to know (cointelegraph.com) ChatGPT-4o builds an ideal $1,000 crypto portfolio for the second half of the year (finbold.com) Digital bank tops list of 100 fastest-growing British businesses | The Independent LoopFX lands £2.6m investment from Augmentum Fintech……

I attended a meeting this week presenting a variety of startups and their ideas. All of them were great, but one stood out for me: Fairwill. Obviously playing on the word farewell, Fairwill provides an exit policy for humans … as in death specialists. It sounds morbid but there’s only two certainties in life: death……

Financial institutions can look to ISO 20022 standard for payments data to identify patterns in payments and transactions to more easily flag fraud, Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Sweden-based Handelsbanken, said today during Volante’s “From mandates to modernization: Payment as a Service strategies for European banks” webinar.  According to Winther, ISO 20022 data…

Fintech funding has hit a four-year low, but venture capitalists believe that it will slowly return to a pre-pandemic normal, Carey Ransom, managing director of venture capital firm BankTech Ventures, told Bank Automation News.  “Things got very frothy in 2021 and 2022 due to the liquidity in the market,” Ransom said. “It was a zero-rate…

The main blog discussions this week include … A financial offer to die for I attended a meeting this week presenting a variety of startups and their ideas. All of them were great, but one stood out for me: Fairwill. Obviously playing on the word farewell, Fairwill provides an exit policy for humans … as……

Things we’re reading today include … HSBC, Nationwide and Virgin Money hit by payment issues – BBC News A fintech collapse is rippling through a small corner of the banking world (yahoo.com) Citi was money launderers’ favourite bank, US law enforcement officials say (ft.com) UAE’s Central Bank Sets New Standards with Open Finance Regulation |……

I was thinking about whether we need another digital bank in Britain the other day. I know that’s UK-focused and am very aware of digital banking developments in other countries, but the UK kind of led the way with the launch of Monzo, Starling, Wise and Revolut a decade ago. They may be the headline……

It does amaze me how many people in banks and technology firms talk about Cloud, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Blockchain, Apps, 5G, Analytics, APIs and more as though they are all buckets. They are buckets of technology, but in each bucket is a use case and, in many, hundreds or even thousands of use……

It does amaze me how many people in banks and technology firms talk about Cloud, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Blockchain, Apps, 5G, Analytics, APIs and more as though they are all buckets. They are buckets of technology, but in each bucket is a use case and, in many, hundreds or even thousands of use……

It does amaze me how many people in banks and technology firms talk about Cloud, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Blockchain, Apps, 5G, Analytics, APIs and more as though they are all buckets. They are buckets of technology, but in each bucket is a use case and, in many, hundreds or even thousands of use……