Wealthtech
KPMG Report: Robo Advice Platforms Will Manage US$2.2 trillion Worth of Assets by 2020
KPMG surveyed 1,500 bank clients about their awareness of and interest in digital wealth management, or robo-advisors. The firm found that while awareness of the robo advising services of popular fintechs including SigFig, Betterment, Wealthfront and FutureAdvisor (8% to 15%)
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Acebanker: Making Wealth Management Accessible and Comprehensible to Ordinary People
Singaporean startup Acebanker offers a mobile app that aims to democratize private banking and make wealth management services accessible and comprehensible to ordinary people. Underneath, there is an algorithmic-based wealth manager with machine-learning capabilities that uses real-world market data to
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Disrupting Money Management Across The Board
Just a few years ago, no one would have predicted mobile and social media would play a big role in money management. Smartphone penetration is reaching a critical adoption level, and the technology provides new methods for conducting day-to-day financial
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WealthInitiative Launches Online Platform to Enhance Wealth Managers’ Value Proposition for Real Estate, Art and Passion Investing
WealthInitiative a Zurich-based fintech startup, has announced the release of its online platform and marketplace that aims to empower wealth managers with a more efficient tool to monitor and manage real estate, art and passion investments. The WealthInitiative platform, launched
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MeetInvest: the Free Toolkit for Independent Investors
MeetInvest seeks to democratize stock market investment with a free service that combines a social media platform and an investor toolkit, bringing in one place all the necessary resources for people to start trading like pros. “We want to empower
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SwipeStox the ‘Tinder for Trading’; Snapchat Developing Robo-Advisory Tech
SwipeStox, the self-proclaimed “Tinder for trading,” lets you “swipe and trade” following advices from successful professional traders, who themselves make cash when being copied. Created by the Naga Group AG, a Hamburg-based fintech firm founded in October 2015, SwipeFox is
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RobinHood Free Trading App Hints at Europe Expansion with New Job Listing
Robinhood, a major American brokerage known for being the first company to offer zero trading commissions for US listed stocks as well as zero account minimums, is planning to launch in Europe as the company seeks for a “Chief Executive
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iDealing Becomes Europe’s First Online Brokerage To Offer Commission-Free Trading
Known in the UK as the “cheapest online broker,” iDealing is now further expanding in Europe, launching an aggressive commercial policy and removing brokerage commission for stocks listed on the Dutch, French or Belgian Euronext markets. Last week, London-based European
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Data Preparation: Wealthport Seeks to Solve Wealth Managers’ Core Problems
Aiming at helping organizations generate value from their data, Wealthport is a data preparation as a service company that uses advanced machine learning algorithms and Big Data technologies to accelerate the preparation of data, improve their quality and enrich them
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Robo Advisors Are Expanding Rapidly and Challenging Swiss Market
Robo Advisors are expanding fast. Fueled by VC investments, these fintech startups are currently handling some US$14 billion worth of assets and are now looking to collaborate with traditional advisors, according to a new report. Authored by international consulting firm
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