Accenture Selects Bitcoin Firm BitSpark for Startup Acceleration Program
Hong Kong-based Bitcoin remittence platform BitSpark has been selected for the Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab Asia Pacific 2015. The 12-week program, sponsored by Accenture - a technology and consulting company - and further supported by several multinationals finance giants like Bank of America Merrill Lynch, UBS, HSBC, JP Morgan, and others, is offered to the most propitious early-stage FinTech companies from around the world. During their tenure at the lab, these companies are provided with every possible opportunity - ranging from workshops and discussions to networking and....
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Here is some wonderful news for the fintech world! Accenture in partnership with Enterprise Ireland is looking to get best of Ireland's early stage tech companies. The companies will then be able to join the Fintech Innovation Lab Accelerator program. Accenture is hoping that with this program will successfully be able to give a boost to those companies who believe that they are ready to take a leap and go global. The company also will help in linking them with leading financial and technological companies. Accenture's interest in fintech industry is not new; it along with 16 other leading....
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'....
Hong Kong-based remittance platform Bitspark has joined Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific 2015 as the only bitcoin and blockchain startup in the lineup. The three-month programme, launched by Accenture - a multinational technology services and consulting company - in collaboration with traditional finance institutions including Bank of America Merill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and UBS will provide mentoring, coaching, networking and investment opportunities to the seven startups accepted on to the accelerator. George Harrap, CEO of Bitspark, said in a company blog post: "There is a....
A financial innovation lab operated by management consulting firm Accenture has added a blockchain startup to its latest class. Accenture's 2016 FinTech Innovation Lab London, the company announced yesterday, will include 15 startups. Crowdaura, which uses blockchain technology as a mechanism for issuing securities via crowdfunding, is the sole blockchain startup to be included in the class. The selected startups will spend 12 weeks working with Accenture staff and executives from a variety of major financial institutions including Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Société Générale.....
Accenture is among a group of 13 companies partnering with startup CoinSciences in an effort to get more enterprise businesses working with blockchain. Those involved with the effort are largely existing users of the MultiChain platform, and the program formalizes that relationship. Participants include professional services firm Accenture, financial tech provider D+H and IT firm Mphasis. According to founder and CEO Gideon Greenspan, the goal is to expand the market for blockchain consulting while at the same time improving the visibility of both its MultiChain private blockchain platform....