Confidence in digital and leadership capabilities in the financial sector has deteriorated since 2012, according to a report by a think tank which specialises in digital services.
The private sector is proving an enthusiastic partner in a government-launched foundation aimed at promoting luxembourg’s fintech industry and extending its international reach. Bob Currie reports.
Asset servicing specialists discuss the importance of cognitive technology, data visualisation and the search for talent in driving forward standards.
Chief executive Laurent Denayer, whose regtech firm UME supplies the asset management industry with automated due diligence on fund distributors, talks to Bob Currie about mutualising information for collective advantage.
Björn Ottersten, director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust at the University of Luxembourg, talks to Funds Europe about fintech research and applying these projects to the real economy.
At a time when fund managers are exploring tools that magnify their data-gathering – or investing in them – a group of artificial intelligence engineers and data scientists have demonstrated tech’s potential by using AI to read every website in the UK to gauge the level of gender bias.
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) that is exposed to the cloud computing industry has been launched.
Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) and Banco Best, a Portugal-based bank, have used blockchain technology to process an end-to-end fund transaction and said “considerable benefits” would come from the technology.
Delta Capita, a business and technology consultancy, has bought The Field Effect (TFE), another consultancy based in London that specialises in prime services, financing, clearing and collateral management.
Swift, the Brussels-based global financial messaging service network, will trial its global payments innovation (GPI) Link payments gateway on R3’s Corda distributed ledger platform.
