15 UK start-ups were selected for the 2016 Fintech Innovation Lab London, the fintech accelerator programme, from a leading global professional services company Accenture.
According to a survey prepared by Ernst & Young, Hong Kong demonstrates the highest rate of fintech adoption among all analyzed markets.
Our world is growing, various industries are evolving as well. The Fintech industry has already announced itself on the world scene, and surely, it’s going to rule the roost in the brand-new 2016.
Only 14% of those interrogated predicted that banks can suffer from financial technology disruption.
According to Visa, the year of 2015 has been definitely the year of the blockchain.
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Nowadays, the Fintech industry is becoming huge. So, the number of Fintech companies with VC investments increased from 276 in 2010 to about 1,000 in 2015.
The fintech is getting more attractive for investors, with some of the most successful people on Wall Street are moving to this promising industry.
H2 Ventures and KPMG published their Fintech 100 list announcing the world’s leading innovators in the industry.
The fintech unicorn Curve has finished a $2 million funding round from a number of prominent investors.
FitPay has been announced a winner of the Wearable FinTech Startup Challenge launched by Comerica Bank and RocketSpace for financial startups developing technology for wearables.
Chinese peer-to-peer online lender Lufax is planning to raise $1 billion next year in an attemp to reach a value of between $15 and $20 billion.
Tyro has raised $100 million from US Asset manager Tiger Global, Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes, and others. Now the company plans to apply to call itself a bank.
The former chief executive of Barclays, Anthony Jenkins, believes the FinTech will disrupt the traditional banking industry over the next ten years.
US financial services company Robinhood has incorporated four companies, Quantopian, Rubicoin, StockTwits and Openfolio, to allow users of these platforms trade securities for free.
The following list of the globe’s 10 most valued unicorns shows the huge potential of the fintech industry which is gaining recognition from one of the leading investors.