The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced new initiatives earlier in April to boost the country’s position as a global hub for the burgeoning financial technology sector.
Current headlines are dominated by traditional institutions becoming minor or even major players in fintech platforms globally. This week it was announced that BlackRock made an investment of £12.7 million in Funding Circle. Similar activity is mirrored by companies such as Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and DBS in Singapore. While these large institutions are making waves in the digital finance space, similar size opportunities are being exploited by community banks and institutions in the form of local P2P networks.
In its commitment to providing information into the digital finance market, Crowd Valley is hosting an Executive Webinar on Wednesday the 4 of May.
AltFi Europe Summit was organized in London in late March. Online lending services and models particularly dominated the discussion. As a whole the UK-based services and UK regulation were in the main focus at the event. The event served as a good summary of the p2p lending and equity crowdfunding market in the UK and some other countries. At the same it also illustrated, how the discussion now focuses on a few services and countries, when much more happens behind the curtains.
Lendit, San Francisco – April 12 – Speaking at the worlds largest online lending event, Crowd Valley Inc, creator of the world’s first digital back office for private securities transaction portals and marketplaces announced new service levels after pilots with financial institutions.
We’ve written about the API Economy previously and expressed our optimism toward specialization of service providers in the financial services market. It looks like frameworks and proposals being put in place may speed up that development, by forcing uniform standards and requirements on the market. The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) may have a long term effect and catalyze the banking sectors position shift to piping from certain high-value services.
Crowd Valley has been invited to speak at the worlds largest online lending event, LendIt in San Francisco on April 11-12 on Market Best Practices in Efficient Back Office Operations. Drawing from the company’s global operations in asset classes such as business debt, solar bonds, real estate debt, infrastructure, the company will paint a global picture of best in class practices and requirements for efficient infrastructure in the middle and back office.
Crowd Valley took part in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Roadshow, which ran from 16-23 March across several cities. The roadshow covered in detail how technologies such as Crowd Valley's, which leverages the AWS infrastructure, can benefit from cloud architecture built to satisfy the requirements of the most security-sensitive organisations.
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