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NEW REPORT: How Banks Are Driving API-First Strategies

PYMNTS

New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. Traditional banks are seeing new FinTech players become more competitive on several fronts, including lending.

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Digital Currency Eyes Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments Down Under

PYMNTS

Thus, the RBA is positing the creation and administration of a digital offering that would track the Australian dollar, as well as ostensibly sidestep the volatility that has marked the likes of bitcoin and its brethren. As a] unit of account, people don’t post their prices in bitcoin, even [at] bitcoin conferences.

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Why Australia’s Digital Coin Efforts Target Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments

PYMNTS

Thus, the RBA is positing the creation and administration of a digital offering that would track the Australian dollar, as well as ostensibly sidestep the volatility that has marked the likes of bitcoin and its brethren. As a] unit of account, people don’t post their prices in bitcoin, even [at] bitcoin conferences.

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New Zealand Fintech – Companies to Watch

Jessica Ellerm

And while financial technology is still a nascent industry, no doubt this sector will be subject to a little more of our Kiwi ingenuity over the coming few years. Harmoney – peer to peer consumer lending. When it comes to p2p lending, New Zealand’s Harmoney leads the APAC region. I kid you not.

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Transformation Time Bomb?

Independent Banker

Three ways millennials could accelerate FinTech trends in 2016. When it comes to finance, millennials are a generation known to be conservative in spending and distrustful of financial institutions. Thus, it’s not shocking that millennials are a driving factor in the growing financial technology, or FinTech, movement.

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Fintech with The Jetsons at FinovateFall 2016

Fintech Labs Insights

It’s 2016, and the red hot fintech sector has evolved immensely since Finovate first launched 10 years ago. Financial services companies have to compete by offering more personalized services, real-time data and communication, and a user-friendly mobile features. Status quo is no longer an option. Collaboration.

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Fintech Unicorn List Q2 2015: 46 Arrived + 37 Closing In

Fintech Labs Insights

We published our first fintech unicorn list in April 2014 with a mere 11 companies. Time will tell whether these valuation bets are temporary insanity from private investors or the beginning of a long cycle of re-imagining financial services. Here is the breakdown by fintech sector: Sector. Bitcoin/Block. Real estate.

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