Circle Execs: The DAO Proves Blockchains Require Trust
#Circle founders Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville weigh in on The DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization that was exploited this week.
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7 Financial Firms to Build Post-Trade Blockchain for Small Businesses
Seven #financial institutions have partnered to explore how #blockchain tech could benefit #small enterprises.
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Finnish City Awarded €2.4 Million to Test Blockchain-Powered Shipping
An economic development firm owned by a #Finnish #city has been #awarded €2.4 #million to build #blockchain-powered smart #shipping containers.
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Euroclear to Develop Blockchain Gold Settlement System
Clearing and #settlement leader #Euroclear has announced its first partnership with a #blockchain industry business.
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Schweizer Pionier der digitalen Finanzberatung schliesst zweite Finanzierungsrunde erfolgreich ab
Die DeinAnlageberater.ch GmbH aus Altendorf/SZ berät seit Anfang des Jahres #Schweizer Privatkunden. Die Finanzierung des internationalen Wachstums wurde durch den erfolgreichen Abschluss der zweiten #Finanzierungsrunde sichergestellt. In den nächsten Tagen wird die deutsche Tochtergesellschaft des Schweizer #Robo-Advisors DeinAnlageberater.de auch in Deutschland online Kunden beraten. Die notwendige Erlaubnis liegt vor.
Unsere professionelle und effiziente Anlageberatung wird auch in anderen Ländern #erfolgreich sein“, sagt Dr. Claus Huber, Geschäftsführer der DeinAnlageberater.ch GmbH. Dadurch erhalten immer mehr Kunden Zugang zu einer professionellen Anlageberatung. Im Gegensatz zu Banken ist die Qualität und der Preis der Beratung nicht abhängig von der Grösse des Vermögens.
Als Anlagebausteine verwendet DeinAnlageberater.ch kostengünstige und steuereffiziente ETFs renommierter Anbieter. Verglichen mit einem Mischfonds bei einer Bank reduziert der Kunde die Kosten um durchschnittlich 75%. Durch den konsequenten Einsatz digitaler Medien spart der Kunde sehr viel Zeit: in weniger als zehn Minuten wird eine professionelle, transparente und kostengünstige Anlageempfehlung erstellt.
Über die Details und Konditionen der zweiten Finanzierungsrunde wurde Stillschweigen vereinbart.
Die DeinAnlageberater.ch GmbH ist ein Schweizer Robo-Advisor mit Sitz in Altendorf/SZ. Sie ist unabhängig von Banken und Produktanbieter. Mittels digitaler Medien wird eine zeitgemässe Anlageempfehlung auf dem aktuellen Stand der Technik und Wissenschaft erstellt. Die Dienstleistung steht den Kunden rund um die Uhr an jedem Tag der Woche zur Verfügung. Sie kostet maximal 5 CHF und dauert im Durchschnitt 6 Minuten. Der Kunde profitiert von Jahrzehnten Erfahrung der Verantwortlichen:
Dr. Claus Huber (Geschäftsführer CH und D) ist Experte im Risikomanagement und arbeitete u. A. in leitender Funktion bei der Bankgesellschaft Berlin, Deutschen Bank und Swiss Re.
Simone Rebholz (Geschäftsführerin CH) ist Expertin in Finanzierung und Anlageberatung und arbeitete u. A. in leitender Funktion bei einer regionalen Genossenschaftsbank und bei der DSL-Bank.
Hans-Georg Vetter (Geschäftsführer D) ist Experte in der Entwicklung, Handel und Vertrieb von komplexen Anlagelösungen und arbeitete u. A. in leitender Funktion bei der LBBW, Lehman Brothers, Banco Santander und Zürcher Kantonalbank.
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Number26 raises another $40 million for its vision for the future of banking
Berlin-based startup #Number26 just raised a $ 40 #million Series B round led by Horizons Ventures. With 200,000 clients, Number26 wants to become a major consumer-facing bank in Europe providing all the services you’d expect from your bank. And this funding round is an important milestone in order to reach this goal. Read More -
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IBM’s New Fintech Trading Floor
IBM’s new Watson, Garage, and Design Studios in Singapore mark a radical departure for how IBM engages its clients. For those in IT this engagement model may be new, but as a former banker it feels very familiar, IBM built a #trading floor for #Fintech.
“ IBM has captured a trading floor’s sense of immediacy, focus on talent, and culture of collaboration“
Now let me immediately dispel any notions that IBM is buying and selling #technology like stocks and bonds, it isn’t. You won’t find traders on the phone selling software licenses or servers. What you will find is that IBM has captured a trading floor’s sense of immediacy, focus on talent, and culture of collaboration and put these traits to work for the benefit of its clients. It radically changes how product lines within IBM work with one another, and how we come together to work for our clients. It is immediate, doesn’t take “no” for an answer and is focused on results.
“ We’re not just playing a bigger game, I thinkwe’ve invented a new game.Need an interface developer? There’s one in that corner. Could this software be used to capture a certain risk management function? Ask him, he’s an expert. There is simply no precedent for the immediate feedback and collaboration available in the studio and how it will help shape our progress when building something new. The new “trading floor” creates an environment where you are defined not by the limitations of your own knowledge, but by your ability to harness the imagination of the vast pool of talent around you. We’re not just playing a bigger game, I think we’ve invented a new game.
“ Our clients come in and sit with us..…and are free to reimagine their bank without limit “
So why is this a breakthrough for Fintech? Fintech isn’t a specific product or technology, it is discipline that borrows technology from anywhere it can to reimagine finance. The new trading floor makes this easier than ever. Our clients come in and sit with us on the trading floor and are free to reimagine their bank without limit. There are no traditional silos, or cubicle walls, nothing at all that would prevent a banker from talking to a social media expert, or the other way around. Its not about the technology that you know about, its about the technology that you didn’t know existed being brought to you by the people who work with it everyday.
“ All of my #banking clients, no matter how senior, now work in technology, they just don’t know it yet “
There is a paradigm shift underway in finance. All of my banking clients, no matter how senior, now work in technology; they just don’t know it yet. The convergence of finance and technology is so new, that many haven’t realized the full extent to which design thinking is reimagining the future of finance. What is already clear is that it’s the re-engineering of technology to serve finance that is driving the process. Cellphones weren’t made for banking, but with re-engineering do it very well. Our “fintech trading floor” is designed to speed the process of re-engineering and get bankers using the latest tech that IBM has to offer.
“you are defined not by the limitations of your own knowledge, but by your ability to harness the imagination of the vast pool of talent around you “
I feel that I’ve now come full circle in my career back to where I started. I have to confess that I’ve always missed the buzz and excitement of the trading floor. Its great to be back, and even greater to know that I’ll be playing a small part in helping to reimagine the future of banking.
IBM Watson Centre, Garage & Design Studio open in Singapore
[linkedinbadge URL=”https://www.linkedin.com/in/turrin” connections=”off” mode=”icon” liname=”Richard Turrin”] is Fintech evangelist transforming #banks and changing paradigms and this article was originally published on linkedin.
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International Money-Tech in Zurich: Startup Pitches Round 1 and Speaker Profiles
This June 28th in #Zurich, #International Money-Tech is a #fintech event features 20 international digital payment and finance #technology company #pitches and offers 1:1 meetings in Zurich
Innovations presented will include digital currencies, mobile banking, peer-to-peer lending, crypto finance, new trends insurance tech, #robo advisors, among many others.
#Startup Pitches will inlcude:
Kantox, a pioneering firm in the foreign exchange industry, bringing light and fresh air to an uncertain, static market. Kantox offers a comprehensive FX management solution for SMEs and mid-cap companies.
Validity Labs educates patrons so they can adapt early an exploit opportunities rather than being rolled over by the #blockchain wave. Our courses, workshops and seminars provide hands-on education about smart contracts and the technology stack beneath it.
SynerScope, the next generation platform that provides analytics solutions to help discover critical information from massive amounts of data and turning it into useful insights. Synerscope combines Scientific Visualization Technologies, ultrafast predictive analytics and machine learning on top of its proprietary enterprise data navigation, -search and -linking. This technology stack provides enterprises high speed detection of abnormal behaviours and anomalies in complex data.
RaiseNow supports ambitious fundraisers to grow their online fundraising. Using solutions for all digital touch points – from SMS donations and mobile phone apps right up to peer-to-peer event fundraising and donation forms. The platform integrates your email and social media channels and makes everything tightly work with your existing fundraising and donor database.
Meniga is transforming the way #banks and advertisers use transaction data, by helping people becoming smarter consumers with great products. With current implementations worldwide Meniga is already serving +35 million consumers.
Speakers will include academics and executives from fintech startups and financial services firm including Roland Berger, Ascribe, the Ethereum Foundation, Nexussquared, Wikifolio, Crowdhouse, and more.
Stefan Greunz – Wikifolio, Head of Business Development
Stefan Greunz &8211; Wikifolio, Head of Business Development
wikifolio.com is Europe’s leading online platform for trading ideas by private traders and professional asset managers.
The Fintech company launched its Social Trading platform in Germany in 2012, followed by its Austrian launch in early 2013 and expanded to Switzerland in 2015.
All signs are pointing to continued growth,’ says Andreas Kern, CEO and founder of wikifolio.com, ‘during the past year we have at least doubled all relevant figures and we want to continue like that.’
More than 13,000 trading ideas called ‘wikifolios’ were already published, of which more than 4,300 are tradable as wikifolio-certificates at the Stuttgart stock exchange. So far 5.3 million trades in wikifolios triggered already a trade volume in excess of 7.9 billion euros.
Ming Chan &8211; Ethereum, Executive Director
Ming Chan &8211; Ethereum, Executive Director
Ethereum’s rapidly growing popularity has become the most talked about topic in #cryptocurrency ecosystem. It particularly came under spotlight when it crossed the $ 1 billion mark in March this year, making several cryptocurrency exchanges to announce their support for ether trading.
The market cap of Ethereum’s has once again surpassed the $ 1 billion mark as ether price recently found upward momentum and currently trades at $ 14.45 levels. Finance Magnates attributes this to the success of the DAO crowdfunding drive.Speaking with EconoTimes, Aurélien Menant, CEO of Gatecoin, said that the surge seen earlier in Ethereum’s market cap was partially due to some concerns about the future of #bitcoin, which have been recently addressed following the announcement of the upcoming SegWit and Lightning network upgrades that will improve the scalability of bitcoin. He attributed the subsequent drop in the market cap to a correction to an “overly excited market”.
If you consider that the market even grew anywhere near 1 billion in less than a year since it was released that is very impressive. We are still very bullish about Ethereum and believe ether’s value will increase in the long term, Menant added. Source.
Special offer: Register with code “fintech16” to get 15% discount for event tickets!
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Banks Should Look Within for Fintech Entrepreneurs
#Banks spend a great deal of time, money, and energy building #technology to compete with #fintech companies, but the CEO of innovation software maker Spigit has a message: Don’t bother. Why is that? “You&8217;re too late,” Spigit CEO Scott Raskin told Bank Innovation, referring to the banks.&8221;By the time these companies reachRead More
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Investor Tim Draper is Still Buying Bitcoin and Now Owns Ether
Two years after #buying roughly 30,000 BTC, #investor Tim #Draper is #still passionate about the #technology as well as competing #blockchain offerings.
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