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The budget yesterday carried one absolute jewel, namely that an ‘Innovative Finance ISA’ will be launched next year in time for April. With the following hallowed words Mr Osborne has transformed crow...
We're starting to hear the first rumbles about the use of blockchain technology in the Financial Markets sector. Until now, most of the discussion about blockchain has been about its use in creating ...
Hackingteam, an Italian hacker for hire outfit has been outed as child-porn planters & their customer list which includes dictators & financials has been leaked on the internet. In a massive h...
Business travel is on the rise, and with it, travel spending and related expenses. The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) projects an increase of up to 8.6% in global business travel spending t...
Not too long ago, Jeff Bezos sparked a tidal wave of controversy when he spoke of the potential of Amazon's 'Prime Air' drone delivery service. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, for packag...
As “senior chap” in the industry I often get invited by investors to presentations from new “start-ups” to give a view. As we all know it’s a very exciting time in the industry and innovation is being...
This time last year investUP made the BIG step of applying for the inaugural Startupbootcamp FinTech accelerator. Whilst we were pretty knowledgeable about accelerators, we had no idea what it would a...
When I first entered the remittances industry the separation of these two industries was seen to be one of the laws of the universe, just as mobile was isolated as the solely desired channel for which...
Payment for research and unbundling has been on the European regulatory agenda for some time. It has now escalated to a cross-border issue after concerns were raised with the US SEC by a senior US po...
In the 1985 movie Back to the Future Doc Brown coined the immortal phrase “Marty, where we’re going we don’t need roads”. In 2015 we can coin a new phrase “Boss, where we’re going we don’t need Humans...
Why Is MasterCard Investigating Digital Currencies like Bitcoin? From Capitol Hill to the United Kingdom Bitcoin Comes Under Fire Federal records indicate that MasterCard has been paying lobbyists t...
Rising prosperity and urban growth has had a profound effect on the global economy. Whilst there remain significant disparities in income, the middle class is swiftly expanding, particularly in Asia,...