Great report by MIT on payments and technology

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Commoditization of Financial service data and research traditionally available at high subscription prices, now more SaaS type models,...

We see several start-ups in this space, but seems a hard segment to crack

Very much like this set of trends, especially the smart contracts, which are called bitshares, although not sure bitshares will become...

Interesting wealth management statistics

With the adaptation of smartphones the loyalty and card industry is transforming as well creating new Billion dollar companies...at...

The battle against fraud in a digital world continues

The Battle for Digital identity, the one who will win will be at the center of the relationship...or we identity providers vs service...

Great explanation on deep learning

Insurance disruption, increasingly on the radar my many

For clarification it is a credit line not equity as many think

BBVA input on their Coinbase investment

From using tech, to Big Data, interesting to see how people in the same industry see different priorities

Insurance being disrupted. P&C and Health Insurance scaling in the US has proven to be more challenging than a European roll-out...

Mining industry is being impact by CEX.io decicion...am closely watching how this will develop in 2015

Impressive raise!

Interesting solutions for investment and diversification solutions especially in Europe this should work given the low interest...

Impressive use cases as well as client base, and momentum!

2014 was the year of mainstream alternative lending solutions, 2015, we expect more niches to take off.. that still operate in 50Bn+...

Interesting article about a challenge many Financial Institutions face...tempting to do it all outside the core....reality is that most...

Great article on blockchain

Nice overview...is pretty green.

In Europe banks seem to have become more active with Santander and RBS teaming up with platforms

the 16 trends for 2015 by Andreessen and co

Now also in India

Interesting set of analyses and facts

Making the unbanked banked...however not via a bank

Success behind Venmo

The complexity Financial Institutions face re Digital

Effort Involves 9 Firms Including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan and BNY Mellon

Would be great step again ahead of Financial Service industry who are reluctant with cloud solutions

The attacker landscape in the UK...not sure the article is complete, but tells a journey

Low Cost Active Alpha is the “democratization of Wall Street”

Nice read on CHF/EUR

Nice overview on the innovation

Some nice perspectives on 2014/2015

Good article and point to stop using ROBO advisor as has a negative connotation.

The battle for staying the preferred location for future FinTech

Encryption and identity management

Hacking vulnerability in Wealth and Insurance this week in the news

Identification and authentication seem high on agenda

Great insights for start-ups how to go to market

ROBO Advisory in wealth and branches....you wonder why you would go to a branch to meet a Robot...vs via PC or phone

Partnerships with P2P to drive customer acquisition (e.g. Banks, Corporates, etc.). We expect more of this in 2015

Legal cost reduction and simplication opportunity in financial services.

Graph database technology is allowing enterprises to surface connections within previously disparate sets of data. Industries from...

The Morgan Stanley Data Breach Is a Reminder of the Big Dollars at Risk

Article that sets out why it matters

ROBO/Wealth platforms...

From the executives/founders of First Direct and Metro Bank

A Big challenge for many start-ups that come out of the tech scene disrupting Financial Services

Capital One synergetic M&A

Good read on Blockchain2.0

Good set of side by side figures for Wealthfront, Betterment and Personal Capital

Interesting article on the blockchain use cases

Google on Insurance

Some of the findings

The 400 Bn cybertattack problem

Interesting read of Consumer Debt

Good overview of another start-up by the paypal mafia and how they compete in wealth

Another start-up from the PayPal maffia

Growth pools for insurance!

Mobile is accelerating access to banking especially in emerging markets....will start with payments and lending

Lie 1: I need to buy stocks in individual companies.

Lie 2: I don’t earn enough to start investing yet.

Lie 3: Investing is for...

Th BitStamp story....why they lost 19000BTC...blog go the founder, explaining what happened

Interesting set of implications of the shift among retailers due to online offering....for now we have seen little of that in Financial...

Interesting set of facts on online and offline commerce.

If the Economic power is shifting east....would expect that Innovation center also shifts east.

Mobile Payment forecasts...expect to see big differences among countries

Good article by CEO of CurrencyCloud on the emergence of FinTech in 2014

The overview of the new batch of

Nice overview along the traditional lines of how banking needs are organized. We combine the needs with the tech disruptors (e.g....

Two nice practical examples of how to use behavioral analytics for collections and multichannel interaction management

Following a phase of innovation, growth the battle among innovators starts...which will bring margins down

Expect to see many more Identity management companies succeed in 2015! Key space to get right in a digital world

The raise of Adyen made people aware...but the 1 Bn transaction of another Dutch Payment company called global collect last summer of 1...

Several of the pension funds in the Netherlands have no either directly or via banks (e.g. Rabobank) entered the SME space, next to...

Clearly SaaS started with the big tickets, if Financial Start to open up for SaaS and Cloud would be a big opportunity for averages to...

Deep learning, Smart Virtual Assistants, Uber/Apple like processes into new sectors, oversight for algorithms, Blockchain

Interesting article....people increasingly value advice+ overall AuM growth = More growth for advisors. Could be gradually disrupted by...

Good simple read and overview of blockchain and some of its underlying and caveats

Interesting read, and several of these trends are there for a while, big question is not if they will happen, but the speed at which...

85% of Banks increase investment in innovation, Emerging markets lead the way. Also interesting to see that Financial Institutions are...

Nice set of analysis of the FinTech trends and ecosystem

Still some debate about the exact impact, the most safe version is Fingervein, but this is less "easy" to use. So trade-off between...

Even the biggest fans of BitCoin are aligned that focus will shift....big question being debated is whether this will be to make the...

Intersting analyses...and some open doors...lots of the drivers of underperformance should be able to be taken away in case of ROBO...