The challenger banks have issued their challenge and are engaging in battle. The latest news on the leader of the challenger banks, Revolut, is reported by our friends at AltFi. In a post-Brexit world, the banking launch is a two-stage process. There’s much more news to come from this part of the financial-services world. Revolut has […]
The EU’s regulators are querying the use of blockchain technology in the creation of a European Single Access Point (Esap). Esap will be a platform “for company financial and sustainable investment information”. The sceptic in us asks whether the reasons for concern – as set out below in a report from our friends at Finextra […]
If FinTech is the future of finance – we would argue it’s already the vivid present – then projects like the one reported below are to be welcomed. Private-sector and government partnerships have a somewhat patchy history (bounceback loans (a good idea), for example, are set to bring chaos over the coming months and years). […]
We’ve long argues that Fintech needs to be seen as a legitimate, investable asset by the likes of institutional investment and pension-fund managers. Following last week’s publication of the Kalifa report on FinTech there’s plenty of support for this argument. AltFi makes its own case here: To put it mildly, fintech companies haven’t struggled for […]