Digitalizarea serviciilor bancare oferite clienților din România a cunoscut o accelerare importantă odată cu declanșarea pandemiei de coronavirus.

Alpha Bank este prima bancă din România care va lansa o aplicație ce transformă telefonul mobil în POS. Soluția este compatibilă cu dispozitivele mobile Android şi răspunde tendinței în creştere de digitalizare.

Credit Europe Bank lansează prima sa aplicație pentru smartphone dedicată exclusiv clienților posesori de carduri de credit și celor care doresc să obțină un CardAvantaj

Plățile online cu carduri Visa au crescut cu peste 50% în aprilie 2020 față de aceeași perioadă a anului trecut, în condițiile în care sectorul comerțului electronic în România a înregistrat un avânt puternic după izbucnirea pandemiei de COVID-19.

ING is set to launch a digital subscription manager for nearly 2 million digital customers this autumn. The tool will give users of the ING Smart Banking app a clear view

Global digital bank N26 launched N26 Business Metal, a new premium business account with exclusive cashback on all purchases to help freelancers, the self-employed

Société Générale is acquiring French startup Shine. Created to make the lives of the self-employed and small businesses easier, Shine rapidly became a leading neobank, serving over 70,000 entrepreneurs

According to Microsoft calculations, global unemployment in 2020 may reach a quarter of a billion people. It is a staggering number. The pandemic respects no border. One of the key steps needed to foster a safe and successful economic recovery is expanded access to the digital skills needed to fill new jobs.

FintechOS, the global provider of technology for the digital transformation of banks, insurance companies and other financial services organisations, is this year’s hottest FinTech Startup

Europe is home to prominent startup and innovation hubs in cities like Berlin, Stockholm, and London, but also Bucharest.

Antreprenorii români vor putea să utilizeze, începând de astăzi, un instrument complet digital de eficientizare şi control al afacerilor prin lansarea platformei web.finlight.ro.

During lockdown, banks and insurance companies continued to provide services (mostly digitally) to their customers

Directorii executivi de la nivel global, din sectorul serviciilor financiare, se așteaptă ca inteligența artificială să fie un motor important de transformare la nivelul întregului sector, conform studiului Transforming Paradigms: Global AI in Financial Services Survey, efectuat de Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) din cadrul Judge Business School, Universitatea Cambridge, și de Forumul Economic […]

In 2019 the fintech sector continued to change the face of the traditional finance industry. According to the KPMG report – A Pulse of Fintech in 2019 – last year might turn out to be the second-most investment-rich year of the decade, following a record high in 2018, when the global value of investment in fintech companies amounted […]

Liquidity in the financial sense refers to how easily we can convert assets into cash. Of all the many different types of assets, some are more “liquid” than others. Cash is considered to be the most liquid asset. This is because you can buy something with cash more easily than you could with other assets […]

Soluțiile de investiții digitale și investițiile autodirecționate sunt în creștere. Astăzi, peste 100 de milioane de oameni din întreaga lume investesc și tranzacționează online. Deși există diferențe de țară și regiuni în ceea ce privește mentalitățile comercianților și investitorilor, tendința se îndreaptă într-o singură direcție: din ce în ce mai multe persoane profită de democratizarea informațiilor, […]

As announced on Bloomberg, the company recently raised an additional $40 million, bringing Numbrs at a valuation of over $1 billion, making it one of the very few European Fintech unicorns, according to a recently company press release. A unicorn is the name given to privately owned company valued at $1 billion or more. The […]

Autoritatea de Supraveghere Financiară (ASF) a lansat, pe www.asfromania.ro, proiectul FinTech Hub prin intermediul căruia a fost creat cadrul instituțional pentru dialog cu societățile ce dezvoltă soluții FinTech

With many uses in financial inclusion, smart contracts and the tracking of goods and transactions, blockchain technology is a powerful tool for fighting fraud,

The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, the Sveriges Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank, together with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), have created a group to share experiences as they assess the potential cases for central bank digital currency (CBDC) in their home jurisdictions. […]

Saga today announces the launch of the Saga token (SGA), the first global, stabilised, digital currency controlled by its holders. SGA allows global citizens to store and move value without friction across borders. Saga Monetary Solutions (www.saga.org) is a UK company limited by guarantee, based on non-for-profit principals. The Saga token (SGA) is a global […]

Deutsche Börse and HQLAX successfully launched their jointly developed Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) solution for frictionless collateral swaps in the securities lending market. The live transactions were executed by Commerzbank, Credit Suisse and UBS on the Eurex Repo F7-trading system. As part of these transactions, ownership of a basket of German government bonds and a basket […]

Up to 10% of global GDP could be stored on blockchains by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum. From product identifiers, medical records to land registries, academic degrees and insurance contracts, blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are already functioning in many sectors. What blockchain promises is no less than the technological backbone of the 21st century’s renaissance of the […]

Volvo Cars announced last week that it is using Oracle’s blockchain platform to trace cobalt, one of the main components in electric car batteries.