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What's up with WhatsApp? Why messaging apps are critical to banks

20 Sep 2017

Do you feel lost without a mobile device? Research suggests mobile users can't leave their phone alone for six minutes and check it up to 150 times a day. Banks need to adapt to this fundamental…

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JPMorgan's Dimon says bitcoin is a fraud that will eventually blow up, compares it to tulip trade

18 Sep 2017

While most other Wall Street veterans are embracing the cyptocurrency, the JP Morgan CEO says bitcoin is "worse than tulip bulbs and it won't end well." ....FYI:Tulips are still a successful export…

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Hunting unicorns in the desert: The sudden rise of Arab startups - The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. 

18 Sep 2017

M&A: Amazon.com Inc acquired Souq.com, a Dubai-based eCommerce platform, for $580MFunding: Careem Networks FZ, a regional Uber Technologies Inc rival, became the Middle East’s only Unicorn – a…

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Jack Ma surprises employees at Alibaba's 18th birthday celebration

13 Sep 2017

Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma turned the company's 18th birthday celebration into a thriller with a Michael Jackson-inspired dance performance.The company has had a lot to celebrate.…

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9 Regulatory and Compliance RegTech Start-ups

08 Sep 2017

With the smallest of compliance slip-ups costing banks millions of dollars - fines across the industry are expected to surpass $20B this year. Here's a list of some of the global firms that help…

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UK mortgage broker Habito raise £18.5m B Series led by Atomico

06 Sep 2017

U.K-based mortgage broker Habito raise 18.5 million pounds or $24 million through series B funding led by the venture capital Atomico.The online chatbot created by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom…

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Cap Tables, Share Structures, Valuations, Oh My! A Case Study of Early-Stage Funding

06 Sep 2017

An interesting piece for Crunchbase written by Jason D. Rowley a venture capital and technology reporter based in Chicago, that we thought worth sharing.For many entrepreneurs, especially first-time…

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Beyond FinTech - the Fourth Industrial Revolution by The World Economic Forum

30 Aug 2017

A pragmatic assessment of disruptive potential in financial services.The Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services project was launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014 in Davos, in…

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Technology adoption starting in the Rest rather than the West is one of the big 21st century megatrends.

21 Aug 2017

First the Rest then the WestThis is one of the big stories of our time. It is the end of what historians have called the Great Divergence, when the Western economies rose to dominance.For most of the…

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Money2020: The Rise of Corporate VCs

23 Jun 2017

ICON's Head of FinTech Eddie Harding is delighted to host a panel session at Money2020 with some of the biggest names in Corporate Venture Capital: Japanese eCommerce giant - Rakuten's Oskar Miel ,…

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Whose buying European #FinTech #Payments, #RegTech and #Banking

23 Jun 2017

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Apple Bank here we come

22 Jun 2017

Great post by Aki Ranin, COO at Bambu worth sharing......At the annual developer conference WWDC, Apple announced their next move into the world of Financial Services. If you thought Apple Pay was as…

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