BNP Paribas's A.I. lab is developing foundational capabilities to reorient investment and corporate banking around customer information.
The firm sees growing interest among institutional investors in Asian fintech.
The firm is about to raise funds via an ICO to hire teams in London, Singapore and New York.
How are regulators such as Monetary Authority of Singapore defining initial coin offerings (ICOs), and what does that mean for investors – and for fintech startups?
The move seeks to discourage low-quality or fraudulent fundraising in Singapore.
DTCC, which processes hundreds of millions of trades a day, is expanding its projects related to blockchain, as it finds new uses for distributed ledger technology.
But as use cases proliferate for distributed ledgers, so do vendors, coding languages, and the number of emerging intermediaries.
BNP Paribas's Pierre Rousseau says banks struggle to take advantage of data because it's fragmented throughout an institution.
A new initiative, openANX, aims to make blockchain and crypto-currency trading more institutionalized.
In Hong Kong, a foreign telco, Superloop, has gotten the jump on rivals by laying fiber to connect data centers more efficiently.
