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Regulators Struggle to Deal with Fintech and Emerging Technologies

Over the past decade of rapid fintech development, startups and entrepreneurs in the market have called for practical and economical regulatory frameworks that could...

Fintech is Rapidly Rebuilding the African Financial Industry

Africa has been recognized as the one of the most promising market for fintech startups and products, with around 80 percent of the continent’s...

Is BTC a currency or a commodity?

The monetary world was taken by surprise some seven years ago when new money came into the market. And we are not talking about...

Q1 Venture Capital Investments in FinTech Sets Records

A new report from KPMG media and CB Insights has recently released a report called The “Pulse of Fintech: Q1 2016” giving both company's...

Former Barclays Executive: ‘Legacy Banks Will Be Disrupted’, But Banks Are Listening

According to former Barclays (NYSE:BCS) chief Antony Jenkins, certain technologies is about to disintermediate the entire banking industry. The Telegraph reports while speaking to an...

Q1 2016 Blockchains, Robo Advisors, and Fintech Raise $4.9 Billion

Financial technology is breaking new ground when it comes to venture capital investment in Q1 of 2016 according to Bloomberg, KPMG International, and CB Insights....

US Fintech Startups to Soon Get a Single Window Approval System

The technology behind cryptocurrency has grown from being just a ledger facilitating cryptocurrency transactions to something much bigger. Various major industries including banking and...

Australia Goes Smooth on Bitcoin; to Repeal GST Bill

The Australian lawmakers are finally beginning to read the Bitcoin definitions correct. In a recent public notice, Treasurer Scott Morrison proposed to empower new finance...

World Economic Forum Leaders Talk About Bitcoin 

The economists and FinTech gurus still seem to be divided on Bitcoin. While this divided opinion was always present, it seems to be exacerbated...

Chain Shuts Down Support for its Bitcoin API

The Bitcoin startups are looking at greener pastures. The expansion of bitcoin and blockchain based technology to mainstream banking and financial sector has opened...

Blockchain Technology to Soon Become Irreplaceable in Fintech Sector, Says Capgemini

Bitcoin and the technology powering it, both seem to have attained a celebrity status making them hard to ignore. Even Capgemini, the technology consulting...

Bitcoin, Fintech and Satoshi Citadel in Philippines

Providing access to financial services to those who are unbanked or underbanked has been one of the frequently used bitcoin use-case for a long...