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How the Collapse of Synapse Has Affected the Fintech Landscape

10/02/2025 No Comments

In April of 2024, the middleware company Synapse Financial Technologies filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. Synapse, which provided Banking-as-a-Service (Baas) solutions for various fintech …

How Strong Will Quant (QNT) be in 2025?

27/01/2025 No Comments

It sounds like a token that investment bankers and portfolio managers might be interested in. ...

Why Bank of America is Embracing Bitcoin

22/01/2025 No Comments

Crypto has come a long way from its days of little beginnings. Today, it’s now ...

Investment Banking Revenues Soar as U.S. banks report 2024 revenues

16/01/2025 No Comments

It’s that time of year again. U.S. banks have started to report results for 2024. ...

Why are Banks spending so Much on Tech?

April 19, 2021

“‘Operational resilience’ is the ability of firms and the financial system as a whole to absorb and adapt to shocks, rather than contribute to them… Extending beyond business continuity and disaster recovery, firms must have plans in place to deliver essential services, no matter what the cause of the disruption.”

Investment Banking Technology

The Tech Investor making waves on Wall Street

April 14, 2021

Cathie Wood herself has become controversial for this reason, a ‘love her or hate her’ figure for many in the industry. But the huge returns generated by Ark’s ETFs – all five gained over 100% last year – mean that, either way, she is now impossible to ignore.

Banking Sustainability ESG USA

Bank of America Increases Environmental Business Initiative Target to $1 Trillion by 2030

April 8, 2021

The $1.5 trillion goal builds on Bank of America’s longstanding work with clients to provide lending, capital raising, advisory and investment services, as well as develop financial solutions and drive innovation, to spur transformative change.

Digital Assets Investment Banking

Hey Citi, your bitcoin report is NOT embarrassingly bad

April 7, 2021

It is a matter of ‘when’, and no longer ‘if’, banks completely adopt crypto trading, and are accepted into the wider crypto eco-system. You can be pretty sure that when the time comes, Citi will work with companies like BlockFi and exchanges like Uniswap.

COVID-19 Investment Banking

The Seven Most Influential Disruptors of Investment Banking in 2021 so Far

April 3, 2021

This March, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, said in an interview with Bloomberg that “There’s a very good chance you’re going to have a gangbusters economy for the rest of this year and easily into 2022.”

COVID-19 Investment Banking

‘Work from Home’ or not – the Question that Banks and Big Tech face in the Post-Covid Era

March 31, 2021

Many in Goldman Sachs think that the pressure to return to the office will be huge by mid-April, now only a few weeks away.

Asia Investment Banking

How much disruption will Bill Hwang’s Archegos cause Nomura and Credit Suisse?

March 29, 2021

Baidu, Tencent and Vipshop were some of the Chinese stocks hardest hit, dropping 18%, 33% and 31% respectively last week according to CNN. How much of those drops was down to the Archegos disruption is hard to quantify, but it certainly didn’t help.

Asia Banking Capital Markets

Why is the Bank of Japan changing its approach to QE?

March 29, 2021

The Bank of Japan struggled more than other central banks to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic because it had already introduced years of stimulus measures in an unsuccessful attempt to encourage price growth.

Banking COVID-19

Alternative Data and Nowcasting are trending amongst central banks, Dow Jones explains why

March 18, 2021

In the midst of a crisis, how can central banks work out what is happening in the market in real-time? How can they obtain the necessary data to make quick and important decisions?

Banking Brexit

Brexit fallout: Luxembourg sweats its assets

March 17, 2021

Luxembourg has positioned itself over many years as Europe’s UCITS (Undertaking of Collective Investment in Transferrable Securities) processor-in-chief, as well as more recently for European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs).

AML / KYC Banking Regulator

NatWest’s Unwelcome Surprise for the City of London

March 16, 2021

The FCA alleges that increasingly large cash deposits were made into the customer’s accounts. It is alleged that around £365 million was paid into the customer’s accounts, of which around £264 million was in cash.

Asia Banking

APAC banks race to revitalize innovation initiatives as the pandemic reveals digital gaps – Backbase

March 4, 2021

The latest edition of the Fintech and Digital Banking 2025 (APAC) report found that 60% of banks in Asia Pacific will leverage artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) technologies for data-driven decisions, compared to 48% from the previous year.

Artificial Intelligence Banking

How the grandmasters of machine learning can keep you competitive in a new era of quantitative finance

March 3, 2021

Paul explains that the MLI “looks at the theory of the mathematics of how machine learning is done. How do we actually compute something, how do the neural networks work …?”

Banking Technology

Big regulation for BigTech?

February 23, 2021

FaceBook’s recent ‘unfriending’ of Australia, as prime minister Scott Morrison put it, is an ongoing, high-profile example of the high-stakes arena, while the UK is to shortly launch a Digital Markets Unit to (in the government’s words) ‘introduce and enforce a new code to govern the behaviour of platforms that currently dominate the market, such as Google and Facebook’.

Banking Regulator

How can banks better address ALM in 2021?

February 22, 2021

Just this month the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published a consultation paper on the implementation of Basel III standards. The PRA are seeking to enhance bank’s regulatory obligations regarding minimum capital ratios and liquid asset holdings.

Asia Insight Investment Banking

The Puzzle of the Japanese Yen’s Safe-Haven status

February 10, 2021

In response to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, last April the Bank of Japan (BOJ) pledged to purchase an ‘unlimited’ quantity of Japanese government bonds.

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