Are Bitcoin Startups Bound to Crush the Banks?
Bitcoin Startups are getting into every sector of the financial industry, and the banks know it. Online businesses have been threatening the banks, and now a massive wave of Bitcoin startups are innovating the financial sector up to the point that banks needed to act. Personal-finance startups are helping consumers balance their checkbooks online. Refinancing startups are taking advantage of cheap debt to offer students better rates on loans; on the other hand, all these new startups are introducing an innovative and more simplistic approach for the financial business industry. All of it....
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Since 2015, an increasing number of multi-billion-dollar financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs have exhibited their interest in emerging innovative financial technologies and startups. Several major banks and financial organizations have established various investment funds for fintech and blockchain startups, to research the application of fintech and blockchain technologies in the financial market. Blockchain technology focused startups have been the main attraction of these banks. According to the Outlier Ventures research team, there are over 1,000 blockchain startups in....
Banks didn’t plan for the blockchain. It just happened in front of them in 2015. But, they have been thinking a lot about its implications. 2015 was the year that banks started to wonder about their blockchain strategy. Banks that didn't have such a strategy were considered laggards. But despite its revolutionary prognosis, the blockchain doesn't signal the end of banking, because the banks aren’t going to use it to disrupt or obsolete themselves. Rather, they will guide it to live within the regulated constraints of their world. The good news is blockchain implementations help banks....
Bitcoin companies who are part of this year's Innotribe Startup challenge, a contest run by the international payment network SWIFT, have the opportunity to partner with and be mentored by some of the world's most prestigious financial institutions. "What really sets the Innotribe program apart is the coaching we give the startups in how to engage the more established financial services providers," said Mike Sigal, Innotribe's lead coach. "There's a chasm between how startups and banks practice innovation, and helping our startups understand how to communicate their value propositions to....
The Indian banks are increasingly collaborating with fintech startups in the country to develop banking solutions. India decided to do away with over 80 percent of its currency in circulation overnight. The move, almost brought the country’s economic machinery to a grinding halt as people flocked to the banks and post offices to exchange their old high-value banknotes for new ones. As experts debate about its potential impact on the country’s economy, Indian banking institutions have decided to upgrade their operations and infrastructure to match present day requirements. According to a....
Hong Kong-based startup Bitspark has been one of the seven startups to join Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific 2015, a "collaboration between a number of the world's leading banks, such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, China Citic Bank International, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and J. P. Morgan." This year, Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab has been heavily focusing on giving opportunities to startups to work with global banks and financial establishments, and enable the startups to implement their technology within the banks'....