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  • user 3:35 pm on July 10, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Banken: Mit Instant Payments zurück zu alter Grösse? 

    In den macht sich die Sorge breit, von den Anbietern mobiler und Online-Bezahllösungen, wie Alipay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, WeChat, Amazon und PayPal/Venmo, umgangen zu werden. In der Tat unternehmen die Interkonzerne einige Anstrengungen, um ihre Abhängigkeit von der Zahlungsverkehrinfrastruktur der Banken zu verringern. In China haben sich Alipay und WeChat bereits deutlich von den Banken bzw. von UnionPay emanzipiert und in den USA betreiben Venmo und andere die Separation mit dem Automated Clearing House.

    Die Banken wollen dem schleichenden Bedeutungsverlust in einer ihrer Paradedisziplinen mit sog. Real-Time Plattformen für entgegenwirken. Schlüsselelement ist ISO 20022. Der Bankenverband liefert folgende Definition:

    ISO 20022 wird ebenfalls als UNIFI-Standard (UNIversal Financial Industry message scheme) bezeichnet. Dieser Standard strebt eine weltweite Konvergenz von existierenden und neuen Nachrichtenstandards aus verschiedenen Bereichen des Finanzwesens an. Für die Entwicklung neuer Nachrichten bietet ISO 20022 eine Plattform, die einen einheitlichen Entwicklungs- und Modellierungsprozess von Nachrichten vorgibt. Dies bedeutet, dass Nachrichten in Standardisierungsorganisationen beispielsweise bei SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) entwickelt und unter ISO 20022 als weltweit gültiger Standard verabschiedet werden.

    So weit so gut. Allerdings geben auch Bankenvertreter zu bedenken, dass Real Time Plattformen auf Basis von ISO 20022 nur so gut sein können, wie die Verarbeitungskapazitäten der Banken damit Schritt halten. Denn: Was nützt eine sechsspurige Autobahn ohne Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung, wenn auf ihr nur Kleinwagen mit 50 PS und/oder Schwerlaster unterwegs sind? Was, wenn auf einmal Sportwagen und wendige, verbrauchsarme Mittelklassewagen mit großem Stauraum den Zugang bekommen? Das IBS Journal bringt es in seiner aktuellen Ausgabe auf den Punkt:

    Building a new platform is all well and good but unless bank&;s own is flexible and run inexpensively, while stiff offering a great front-end-consumer experience, then they could still lose out to newcomers and challenger , especially if they have access to the new national real-time infrastructures being built (in: Real-time: platforms for innovation?)

    Um also in den Genuss der Vorteile kommen zu können und dem Schicksal der &;Disintermediation&; zu entgehen, müssen die Banken die technologischen Voraussetzungen zuvor geschaffen haben:

    The service layer should be the battleground for business and volume in the opinion of most regulators and customers, but this can only happen if the infrastructure layer is good enough to compete with the likes of Amazon or Alibaba (ebd.).

    Daneben sind noch weitere Fragen zu beantworten: Was ist zu tun, wenn einige Länder am alten ISO 8583 festhalten, um die Verarbeitung in Echtzeit zu erreichen? Wie kann ein Flickenteppich an Instant-Payments-Lösungen verhindert, zumindest jedoch eingedämmt werden?

    Written by Ralf Keuper

    Featured Image: Hands of Person Shopping in Internet Making Instant Mobile Telephone Payment Transaction via Shutterstock

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  • user 1:55 pm on July 10, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    How Distributed Ledgers Impact Post-Trade in a Dodd-Frank World 

    Cromwell &; Moring LLP attorneys explore the relationship between and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
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  • user 12:59 pm on July 10, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    3 Ways Small Banks Can Collaborate With Fintech 

    Its important for each side to understand the other’s business and to see where they can help each other.
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  • user 7:36 am on July 9, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Wallet or Smartphone: The FinTech in Front of the FinTech 

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    I’m on line at Starbucks and reach to pay for my Triple Venti Nonfat Latte, only I don’t reach for my wallet, I reach for my . My poor wallet is suffering from some serious neglect these days. It occurred to me that if I didn’t have a weakness for food trucks, I probably wouldn’t use cash at all. The apps on my smartphone are now my proxy for a bank, holding and moving money in one click – the new way to truly “bank on the go.”

    Think of the applications you use on a daily basis. How many of these apps have the power to transfer money? Undoubtedly, more than you realize. The 1.5 million users utilizing the payment app, Venmo, transferred $1.3 billion in funds last quarter alone. As a strong supporter of the Revolution, I understand its magnetism, but it doesn’t take an aficionada to see the technological insurgence has already started.

    Consumers are embracing self-management of their financial resources in ever-greater numbers. This increasing trend means have greater competition for consumer mindshare and, as a result, reduced relevance and potentially reduced income. Individuals value transparency and choice; having their data available in user-friendly tools that can be accessed anywhere is powerful. The problem for the banks is that they aren’t able to provide these same types of tools with the same currency or quality due to lack of resources and slow moving compliance departments. Now, while banks begin to work on their next generation platforms in this hyper-connected age, FinTech apps are gaining ground quickly. For instance, the online payment system, PayPal, has singlehandedly become the new face of banking, holding more consumer money than most major Financial Institutions. The banking industry hasn’t experienced such a profound transformation since 1969, when the ATM first opened.

    As continues to pull us away from big banks society willingly complies, but how can we be sure our money and personal data are secure? Millennials, who represent more than a quarter of the general population, use these payment apps as an alternative to a savings accounts, storing their money for future use, without the fees and restrictions associated with major banks.  However, these apps, often run by a third party software and not on a bank’s federally insured regulated infrastructure, can be risky. When transferring and holding money in a FinTech app, the user takes the risk.  As competition increases and technology advances these apps come and go over night, but what happens if your money is stored in an app that one day disappears? Or if the app temporarily has custody of your funds and you can’t access them? Or if a sender cancels a transaction? Most users do not realize their money is not insured and funds cannot be easily recouped. Also, as financial data becomes more accessible, so does the possibility of security threats. To most, the risk, sometimes unknown, is worth it for faster, more convenient service.

    There is good news – the potential for banks and FinTech apps to work together is endless. Banks can endorse these apps and give them a safe and insured platform to run on. The data behind these apps is also extremely powerful. Using financial data aggregation platforms, like EEI’s Trusted Network™, banks and FinTech apps can partner to perform advanced analytics. Enriched data can be used to determine spending capabilities and therefore help users make educated financial decisions. FinTech Apps aren’t going away, banks will need to be flexible and innovative in their response to consumers, all while learning to share customers’ revenue and profits.  

    As with everything else, we are seeing this paradigm shift with the early adopters, but before long it will be common practice with the laggards as well. All consumers want choice – what car to buy, what brand to wear and even what personal financial management apps to use. What drives choice? Awareness, branding, but most importantly ease of use and convenience. Despite operational and financial risks, the use of FinTech apps has increased. Let’s just hope our cellphone batteries and FinTech companies don’t die before we have a chance to pay the bill! 🙂

    This is part of my FunTech blog series exploring the shift in technology and culture in the financial services industry.


    [linkedinbadge URL=”https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimieanzelone” connections=”off” mode=”icon” liname=”Jaimie Anzelone”] is Business Manager, Office of the CEO of Enterprise Engineering Inc.

     
  • user 3:36 am on July 9, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Luzerner Kantonalbank beteiligt sich strategisch an crowdhouse.ch – 160 Jahre Schweizer Bankentradition trifft auf Fintech 

    Die Luzerner Kantonalbank AG (LUKB) im Sinne einer strategischen Partnerschaft an . Die Traditionsbank nimmt ebenfalls Einsitz in unserem Verwaltungsrat. Gleichzeitig verstärken wir das Aktionariat und den Verwaltungsrat mit Francisco Fernandez, dem Gründer und CEO der Avaloq-Gruppe.

    &;Basierend auf der Beteiligung und dem damit zusammenhängenden Zugang zu den neu erhaltenen finanziellen Mitteln, werden wir die nächsten Wachstumsschritte einleiten und weitere Immobilien für die Kunden von crowdhouse.ch akquirieren. Ziel ist es, die digitale Transformation des Immobilienmarktes in einer Pionierrolle voranzutreiben. Wir planen in enger Zusammenarbeit mit den beiden neuen Aktionären das Angebot auszubauen und crowdhouse.ch als Immobilienhandelsplatz der Zukunft zu positionieren. Damit wollen wir das direkte und indirekte Investieren in Immobilien erstmals transparent, liquide und für jedermann zugänglich machen&;, heisst es in einer Medienmitteilung

    Was bringen die neuen Aktionäre mit?

    Luzerner Kantonalbank

    Die Luzerner Kantonalbank AG (LUKB) verfügt über eine breit anerkannte Immobilien-Expertise und ist mit ihrem 2016 lancierten Leistungskonzept «Immobilienbank» auch gesamtschweizerisch präsent. Dadurch wird die LUKB wertvolle Impulse für die weitere Entwicklung unserer Plattform einbringen. Francisco Fernandez, Gründer und CEO der Avaloq-Gruppe, ist eine unbestrittene Koryphäe im Bereich der Banken- und Finanzsoftware. Wir sind überzeugt, dass die Fachkompetenz und das Beziehungsnetz von Francisco Fernandez ganz wesentlich mithelfen werden, das Angebot und die Qualität von crowdhouse.ch zu steigern.

    Was bedeutet dies für Crowdhous Kunden?

    Seit Lancierung von crowdhouse.ch wurden bereits 30 Millionen Franken Immobilienvolumen platziert und verzeichnen exponentielle Wachstumsraten.

    Wir sind überzeugt, dass wir dank der verstärkten Eigenkapitalbasis und Expertise das Volumen bis Ende Jahr auf über CHF 100 Millionen erhöhen können. Durch die strategische Partnerschaft soll der gesamte Investitionsprozess für die Miteigentümer vereinfacht und beschleunigt werden. Unser langfristiges Ziel ist es, einerseits den diversen Akteuren im Immobilienmarkt den Zugang zu Investoren und Kapital zu erleichtern und anderseits unseren Kunden die Anlage in Immobilien so einfach wie den Kauf einer Aktie zu gestalten.

     

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  • user 3:35 pm on July 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Swisscom Announces 10 (Fintech) Finalists of StartUp Challenge 2016; 4 of them are Fintechs 

    has announced the ten startups selected to pitch on August 16, as part of its 2016.

    Each year, the Swisscom StartUp Challenge, a business accelerator program organized in cooperation with venturelab, rewards five startups that are trying to get their ideas off the ground. These startups get a trip to Silicon Valley for a tailor-made acceleration program, mentoring with Swisscom Venture, investors and business angels, and get evaluated for an investment by Swisscom Ventures.

    The ten startups, selected among over 200 applications from ventures tackling IT and telecommunication, , e-commerce, adtech, big data, Internet of Things, among many other areas, will have to prove themselves in August during a pitch day at the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

    The five best startups will be selected out of the ten teams and will fly to Silicon Valley in September/October 2016 to continue their journey in the program.

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    Previous winners of the Swisscom StartUp Challenge include Monetas, CashSentinel, among many others.

    This year&;s ten selected startups are:

    Advanon (Fintech)

    Launched by three former Google employees, Advanon allows SMEs to prefinance their outstanding invoices easily, quickly and transparently.

    Based in Zurich, Advanon is the leading invoice financing platform in Switzerland.

    Lykke (Fintech)

    Lykke is building a global marketplace for all asset classes and instruments. Powered by , the online marketplace offers immediate settlement of transactions and much lower transaction costs.

    Qumram (Fintech)

    Qumram provides a solution that allows for every digital interaction (web, social and mobile) to be recorded, providing a digital audit trail for financial services organizations.

    Qumram has created a single source of truth, recording indisputable proof of every keystroke, button click or mouse movement.

    Xorlab

    Xorlab is a cybersecurity company that develops and provides dynamic IT security products and services for businesses.

    Xorlab has developed software for the early detection and prevention of client-side attacks, including spear phishing and drive-by infections.

    Qipp (Fintech?)

    Qipp is a web application that enables property managers and owners to bundle digital services and enhance the relationships between owners, managers and tenants.

    The app allows for interaction between all involved parties, allowing for efficiency, value-added services, smart services and community-oriented micro-apps.

    Xsensio

    Xsensio has developed a wearable that uses biochemical information on the surface of our skin to provide real-time information about our state of health and well-being.

    Xsensio is based on nanotechnology that exploits information from proteins, molecules and electrolytes on the skin surface.

    Biowatch (Fintech)

    Biowatch has developed a vein reading biometric wristwatch that recognizes its wearer from the pattern of their veins and therefore provides clear, secure authentication.

    Through bluetooth and NFC, the watch enables users to make online payments, unlock their car, automatically log into their accounts or access buildings.

    CatchEye

    CatchEye has developed a video conferencing add-on that enhances video chat picture quality on Skype, Hangouts, Vidyo, Zoom and others, and enables participants to make eye contact. CatchEye works with Intel RealSense 3D camera.

    Fashwell

    Fashwell is a fashion-tech startup that has developed an app that allows users to find and buy fashion products online thanks to an image analysis algorithm based on machine learning. The app identifies fashion items and provides a dynamic linking of these items to online shops.

    Fashwell has already raised over US$ 1 million in equity funding.

    Nanolive

    Nanolive is a new type of technology that enables scientists to conduct 3D microscope-based exploration of living cells without damaging .

    The 3D Cell Explorer is a high-speed, high resolution and non-invasive tool that can look deep inside biological systems.

     

    Featured image via Swisscom.ch.

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  • user 2:30 pm on July 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    At $400 Million a Year, Academic Argues Bitcoin Mining Worth the Cost 

    A recent note from the University College London’s research center explores the fair of .
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  • user 12:59 pm on July 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    3 Ways Small Banks Can Collaborate With Fintech 

    Its important for each side to understand the other’s business and to see where they can help each other.
    FinTech – Finance Magnates | Financial and business news

     
  • user 10:26 am on July 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Asia Pacific cross-border payment startup Airwallex lands $3M 

    cross border  companies are continuing to draw interest from investors in . The latest company to pull in financing is , a China-Australia that specializes in cross-border transactions. Read More


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  • user 6:59 am on July 8, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Seamless Expands SEQR Payments Solution to Four New Countries 

    adds in Austria, Ireland, Malta, and Luxembourg.
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