Tag: Banking

Financial services are a main tool for basic personal economic transactions. Even if we never think about it, they are present in our life-style...

Will traditional banks introduce their own, closed blockchains, or will people opt for blockchain-based apps that cut out the middlemen? Banks are exploring how Blockchain...

It is such an irony that the old one pound coin just went out of circulation to be replaced with a new version of...

Muhammad Yunus, a young economics professor during a famine in Bangladesh in the late 1970s, came across rural women skilled in local handicrafts who...

Progress towards an ambitious global target to open the opportunity of the 21st Century economy by widening access to electronic transactions to everybody has...

It seems that we can scarcely do anything these days without opening an app to help us do it better, quicker or cheaper, whether...

Digital world is what we’re living in, and if we want to survive this trend, we need to make sure that we are giving...

Moeda Banking-as-a-Service Relaunches Digital Token Token sale to fund the community-focused mobile lending, payments and remittance platform Moeda, an innovative banking-as-a-service cooperative network that aims to...

By including the unbanked, Humaniq improves banking for all By Olivia Chow Because Humaniq is focused on financial inclusion, its application is designed to make it...

According to report on Payment Aspects of Financial Inclusion by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the World Bank Group

David Kenny, GM @IBM Watson on AI, Blockchain and Design Thinking in banking This is a special guest post and interview from Dean Demellweek, Digital Solutions...

Santander joined the Blockchain revolution becoming the first UK bank to use the tech for international payments, using blockchain technology from @Ripple. Santander just stepped forward...

Blockchain the Inception of a new Database of Everything? The blockchain is becoming the new database of the internet, the new macro database and maybe...

Let’s face it, artificial intelligence has become an integral part of our lives like sandwiches and cars. Whether it’s your virtual assistant reminding you...

Enabling more people to enter the formal financial system

Many have been questioning high street banks, and raising concerns about what these institutions have to offer in the current age. A seed of...

This is Part 3 of the IntelligentHQ Guide to Ethical Banking.  This three-part series explores the history of ethical banking, some of the concepts behind it and...

Triodos Bank is a bank with a difference. While many banks are claiming to be very responsible socially in their provision of financial services,...

Millennials bank differently. It shouldn’t come as a great surprise. After all they are rarely seen without their smartphones. As Dan Kadlec (2014) of...

Many are looking to Africa as a major powerhouse to come for producing massive returns in the banking industry. Indeed, according to The Economist...

Financing the development of cities in a manner in which they can be developed sustainably is a concern for the World Bank. Cities are...

Streetbank: The Neighbours Website.Intelligenthq Let's imagine moving back on time.  What if one could get out of one's home, being able to greet on his or...

Despite an increase in tablet and mobile usage in the United States, a report by the Federal Reserve Board on the use of mobile...

A web based social trading community for serious investors, TradingFloor.com, was revealed in beta by Denmark's Saxo Bank. The new portal enables traders around...