Should Google and Facebook be venturing into banking?
A never-ending quest for more data and control over customers is forcing Google and Facebook to make a banking play – what could go wrong?...
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Alinma Investment: Building sophisticated products for the Saudi investor
Alinma Investment Company is dynamically creating investment products for one of the youngest and most technologically savvy populations of the world...
Department of Finance Ajman: Building an open, competitive economy
The award-winning department is at the forefront of deploying intelligent financial systems in the UAE...
Credit scoring: Keeping customer privacy at the forefront
A unique opportunity comes in the form of smartphone metadata as a means of developing credit scores for individuals and small business owners...
Brazilian investors should invest offshore
Wealthy Brazilians should pursue offshore investment opportunities as they become easier to manage...
IFC is powering green bonds in emerging markets
IFC is leading the mobilisation of private capital in the form of green bonds to address climate change in the emerging markets...
Lifetime financial planning: What is the better trade off?
Singapore fintech startup BetterTradeOff’s solution solve the loss of human touch and contextualisation in financial planning for individuals...
UK: Open banking unleashes business lending race
The UK’s open banking directive is starting to propel SME growth and is having a cascading effect on European banking...
Why Kenya needs fewer banks
Around 80 percent of the profits made by the Kenyan banking sector go to the top five to six banks...
Al Wateen: A unique digital factory in the Kuwait Islamic banking sector
Kuwait’s Warba Bank is pioneering digital banking innovation in the Gulf countries with an in-house centre to develop exclusive digital products and services...