On February 16, 2016, the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issued an Investor Bulletin to educate investors about the opportunities that will arise for investors through securities-based crowdfunding (also known as equity crowdfunding, and digital investing), when the new rules will be enacted on May 16, 2016. Starting from that date, registered platforms will be able to offer securities under Title III of the JOBS Act, and companies to use crowdfunding to offer and sell securities to the investing public.
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona – February 23 – Crowd Valley Inc, creator of the world’s first digital back office for digital finance applications announces ground-breaking integrated tools for data, analytics and compliance support. These tools are available also for mobile application developers and IOT applications. Mobile is becoming the most important device also in finance services and Crowd Valley plans to further expand mobile support with the back office and API.
Fintech events and conferences are so many and the sector so hot that is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the different things that are coming up in this period. So here we come in your help with the most complete list of the best events in the financial technology industry that you can find around.
Private transactions are a vast, often unstructured market with a big emphasis on informal networks. Just think of all the ‘friends and family’ money in the early stage investing market, the angel networks and the importance of their activity. In recent years the uptick of small funds, ‘super angels’, online syndication and co-investment models have paved the way for various family office, smaller funds and private investor networks to question the way they operate. Could structuring the informal networks into a catalyst for larger impact bring more bang for your buck?
Crowd Valley and the Global Cleantech Cluster Association to Further Fintech and Cleantech2/16/2016
San Francisco and Zurich – February 16 – Crowd Valley Inc, creator of the worlds first digital back office to power online investing and lending marketplaces and the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (“GCCA”) announce they have started working together in the Certified Partner Program to bring digital finance applications to cleantech worldwide.
What Innovative Tools Can Banks' New Business Directors Implement for Greater Efficiency?2/11/2016
Digitally disrupted or reinvented? This is the provocative question of the last Accenture report on fintech (i.e. “The Future of Fintech and Banking: Digitally disrupted or reimagined?”), which clearly represents the crossroad many traditional finance actors have to face these days. Banks and other financial players know they have to take action to innovate their offerings and business models if they want to stay competitive and relevant to the consumer.
Everyone talks about the API economy and how it also comes to the finance sector. But what does it really mean for finance companies? Banks, insurance companies and other finances services are seriously struggling with their legacy IT infrastructure and it presents a clear bottleneck to roll out new offerings without huge costs. Now with cloud based back offices and open APIs, anyone can build finance and banking services in a few days. Banks must adapt to this new model in order to be able to survive, otherwise they commit to a slow and painful suicide weighed down by their old IT solutions and processes.
Innovation in the financial sector has arrived late compared to other industries, for example telecommunications, but it eventually happened, mainly driven by small, external actors - the so called fintech startups - which are today posing a serious threat (or a huge opportunity) to incumbents.
Financial Times Live organized European Financial Forum at the Dublin Castle on January 27. It gathered hundreds of finance executives and professionals not only from Europe, but from around the world. Fintech and digital finance got a very important role in the presentations and panels. It was probably also the hottest topic to discuss during the breaks. One fintech startup speaker even predicted that half of the audience will lose their jobs in the next 5 years due to the digital disruption. |
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