Bitcoin Record High Bitcoin, the most popular virtual currency, hit a record high of over $4,000 per bitcoin. The virtual currency exchange rate stood at “just” $580 in mid-2016 growing [...]

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Dark Web Pushing Fintech Towards Blockchain As Jennifer Klosterman points out, “There are many strong reasons for reputable businesses to keep their noses clean and well out of the Dark [...]

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Open Banking API’s Most people think of banks as one monolithic entity, but they are actually made up of hundreds of independent, pseudo-integrated systems. When a bank wants to make [...]

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AI Bankers With digital banking and social payments already making waves in the financial community there is one more piece of technology that is revolutionising the banking world; AI advisors. [...]

Human like Robots Robo-taxation Should robots be taxed? That is the question that Bill Gates has given his somewhat controversial answer to last week, declaring that humans should be taxing [...]

Numeraire cryptocurrency Numerai, a hedge fund started in late 2015 by mathematician Richard Craib. The new Numerai cryptocurrency comprises digital tokens that allow crowdsourcing of literary anything. Cryptocurrencies are essentially [...]

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Fintech Cybercrime Report 2017 ThreatMetrix has released its latest quarterly cybercrime report based on cybercrime attacks from October to December 2016, detailing trends across financial services and eCommerce, with a [...]

Cloud Startups and FinTech FinTech market transaction value is set to grow 20 percent a year to $7 trillion in 2021. This year will see $3.3 trillion transacted. Digital payments, [...]

Social Payments In 2014, RBC became the very first bank in North America to offer a P2P payment service via Facebook Messenger. In the two years since then social payments [...]