Issue 84 · Sep 7, 2016 Weekly edition · 4 min read

Fintech News

Here comes FinTech Weekly #84. The past week was packed with insightful articles from the industry. What's more? IoT, insurtech and AI. Also check out the new version of our iOS app. We added some features and improved

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How IoT will challenge the everyday customer experience The everyday customer experience is always changing, but IoT will have a lot do with it. Open story ↗ Updated: FinTech Weekly iOS app [1.1] We improved our app for you. A tutorial screen allows you to toggle push notifications on and off and you can subscribe to the email newsletter through the app. Overall stability improved. Download the app now. Thanks to our friend Christop Jerolimov (Twitter: @jerolimov). Open story ↗ Why Fintech Startups Might Not Want to Become Unicorns In mythology, unicorn sightings are blessed events. In fintech world, they might be increasingly ill-fated. Open story ↗ Banking Disrupted | Silicon Valley Leadership Summit (14 Sep 2016) In the last four years, venture capital investment in fintech has increased more than 600%. Is this exponential growth a sign of a new bubble, or the beginning of the end of banking as we know it? At Silicon Valley Innovation Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA Open story ↗ Making digital strategy a reality in insurance Digital transformation is challenging in insurance, where change must happen without interrupting the flow of daily business. Here’s how savvy leaders are taking on the challenge. Open story ↗ Disruption & Scale: Can FinTech Startups Really Have it Both Ways? There is an interesting term describing a certain type of relationship between FinTech and banks called ‘rent-a-charter’ – a model when banks backstop or formally provide services behind FinTech websites. With the evolving relationships between startups and institutional players, this has become an often cited scenario, especially in lending, bringing certain scrutiny for everyone involved. Open story ↗ Why Fintech Firms Are Winning the Battle for Digital Consumers Despite wanting to improve the digital consumer experience, research finds that the banking industry still can't fully support key stages of the digital customer journey. Open story ↗ FinTech Sector at Risk From Attack on Patentable Subject Matter Innovation in the United States could be at risk due to a recent patent rulings having a detrimental effect on patent enforcement efforts and obtaining patents on business methods including financial technologies. Open story ↗ How emerging banks are changing the banking experience Consumers and businesses alike will often consider a company’s reputation before entering an agreement with them. After all, why would anyone choose an organisation which has history of letting its customers down, over another with a spotless track record? Open story ↗ Digital banking is only 1% done - An interview with 11:FS With the recent CMA report driving further competition in banking, the historical hold that established banks have had on customers is diminishing. Furthermore, the continuous growth of significant FinTechs such as Monzo, Starling, Atom, Transferwise and Revolut, is proving that digital disruption is not going anywhere. Open story ↗ A Cloud-Based Controlled Open Web Container for the Fintech Market As the demand for faster and more sophisticated financial trading tools increase it is envisaged that future trading platforms will need to adapt in terms of functionality and flexibility. Open story ↗ Bankers Are From Mars… It is not news here, or anywhere else, but bankers and fintech entrepreneurs are from different planets. They are just wired differently. Open story ↗ AI Is Not the Future, It’s the Present With all the fascination around artificial intelligence (AI) as an immense part of the future, there is an underestimation of how firmly AI is rooted in the present already. Open story ↗ Regulation Sandbox Changes the Rules of Fintech Playground In a recent report EY point out that the big advantage the UK has in “Fintech” is it’s progressive policy from Government and Regulators. Open story ↗

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