By Elliot Maras, article first appeared in CCN: Bitcoin, Blockchain, FinTech, & Cryptocurrency News CCN:

By Ingrid Lunden for techcrunch.com BBVA — the Spanish banking giant that acquired Simple in

By Alan Carlisle for Techcrunch.com, In just the first week of trading in 2016, the

As one may have noticed, the FinTech fever is spreading around the world at an

By Hugh Son Hugh and Margaret Collins for the Bloomberg Business Banks are watching wealthy clients flirt with

by Liz Lee for DealstreetAsia.com, A notable 68 per cent of the top 100 companies

By Michael Tegos for TechinAsia Fintech startups in Singapore now have one more place to

By Meghna Rao for TechinAsia, The trend of buying things through chat has taken off

By Oliwia Berdak for the Amrican Banker. Oliwia Berdak is a senior analyst at Forrester

By Laura Noonan for Financial times Mobile payment apps are soaring in popularity in the

By Josh Steime for Forbes. Josh is the CEO of MWI, a digital marketing agency with

By Matt Heiman for Techcrunch.com, In March 2014, The Economist publishedBanking without banks, declaring that

By James Vincent for the Verge.com, Swatch has announced that it’s bringing contactless payments to its

By Sarah Perez for Techcrunch.com Estimote, a beacon company whose small, wireless sensors and accompanying

By Rene Lacerte for Huffington Post, The meteoric rise of fintech firms in recent years

By Erin Hobey for Crowdfundinsider.com Almost one third of Americans are likely to be using a technology

By Naka Kondo for the Economist, More and more organisations are collecting and storing vast

BY LYNN BRACKPOOL GILES for lifehealthpro Here are two words you don’t often hear in

Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) has teamed up with Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC)

Data is our basic needs to store in our mobiles so there may have been

Vladislav Solodkiy, Managing Partner, Life.SREDA VC: These days many countries are talking about the importance

WIRED: In a world where Bitcoin wants to make your personal identity irrelevant, disruptive data

BLOOMBERGVIEW: What kind of chief executive does a big modern bank need? Apparently not a

WIRED: The financial technology (FinTech) sector is responsible for a record hike in venture capital being

THE ECONOMIST: China is certainly not the first country to try to prop up a falling

TechCrunch: The credit score has become a ubiquitous way to assess someone’s credit-worthiness. It is used

MOBILEMAKERS: The Indian government published proposals to encourage greater take-up of electronic payments in a

FINEXTRA: Having occupied relatively safe niches, such as payments and P2P-lending, fintech companies are now moving

Fastcompany: Many millennials want to make the world a better place, and the future of

TECHCRUNCH: While remittances open the door for growth, that possibility pales in comparison to the larger