The creation of the first school of digital economics in Russia was announced last fall at the Eastern Economic Forum. The school, founded as an innovative educational project designed to …

The pilot of Scotland’s new FinTech Skills Academy, which was announced in September 2018, has been hailed as a great success as the first class (Introduction to the Retail Card …

The widespread adoption of mobile money in Kenya has eliminated many traditional barriers and enabled millions of Kenyans to access financing for the first time. This, however, has also resulted …

JPMorgan Chase & Co. plans to open a FinTech campus in Palo Alto, California as part of its efforts to attract more Silicon Valley talent. The campus, scheduled to open …

Sberbank has been at the forefront of many innovations in recent years thanks to its repositioning of itself as a technology company that aims to provide both financial and non-financial …

Tinkoff Bank has opened free three-month training at select bank offices in 8 Russian cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don and Ryazan) for analysts and developers. …

VTB Group (VTB) has launched a corporate FinTech accelerator based on GenerationS, the largest accelerator of startups in Russia and Eastern Europe. VTB’s corporate accelerator is aimed at finding and …

The FinTech Association and FinTechLab have concluded a cooperation agreement that will help organize support for new FinTech projects. Specifically, the two sides are planning joint programs aimed at building …

The Australian Computing Academy (ACA) has announced the launch of the Cyber Security Challenge, a USD 1.35 million program to teach cyber security to year 7-10 students in Australia. The …

Revolut, a British FinTech startup with Russian roots, announced its plans to enter the Russian market this year. The company, valued at USD 561 million, is a mobile app that …

Analytical company PitchBook collected data on startups that closed last year. Here are the 10 most expensive to close their doors in 2018: 10.Fallbrook Technologies – founded in 1998, the …

GreenSky, a FinTech company from Atlanta that provides loans for home repair projects, has announced its plan to go public with an IPO of USD 5 billion in total capitalization …

Small- and medium-sized businesses will soon be given the opportunity to quickly execute payments via a new business-to-business (B2B) payment platform launched by Sberbank and Yandex. Traditionally, B2B payments need …

For any business, a revenue model is important. However, it is even more crucial for FinTech companies as consumer confidence is easily-shaken by perceived actions that seem solely profit-oriented (e.g. …

Not long ago, LendingClub was the brightest star in the rapidly-growing world of online lending. With shares having dropped two thirds in two months, the company now has investors nervous. …

Last summer, more than 400 peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms in China collapsed, costing thousands of Chinese millions in lost investments. The reason for their collapse is due to the lack …

Late last year, Robinhood attempted to launch a disruptive, first-of-its-kind checking/savings product, one which offered consumers a 3% interest rate with zero fees. Just days later, however, the company had …

The lack of regulations governing many areas of FinTech in Russia is providing many great opportunities for FinTech startups to test innovative new solutions that might be difficult to test …

FinTech startups continually create new, innovative solutions to modern financial issues, taking advantage of technology advances to make lives easier and business processes better. However, they are often at odds …

Despite concerns over the impact of Brexit, many startups are not willing to give up on London and its rich business networks and strong financial flows. At the same time, …