Tag: Fintech

Visa plans to acquire Pismo for $1 billion cash to provide more solutions to its customers. The acquisition will also expand the geographic footprint of...

Circle is furthering its embrace of regulation by applying for approvals in France. The digital financial technology firm has filed applications in France to become a...

One of the U.K.’s largest banks is expanding its workplace savings offerings. NatWest announced Monday (Feb. 13) it was acquiring Cushon, a British FinTech that provides savings accounts...

House Republicans are set to take a closer look at FinTechs and digital assets. Rep. Patrick McHenry, the new chair of the House Financial...

By Jens-Uwe Franck, University of Mannheim - Department of Law. This paper analyses three routes for the formation of market-opening rules: competition enforcement, legislation, and...

Anna Tzanaki, Liudmila Alekseeva & José Azar, Lund University & University of Navarra Is common ownership in fintech companies an empirically significant phenomenon? What are...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared the merger between the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Quantile following an in-depth investigation. The CMA...

After more than five years of working on a FinTech project with Chinese eCommerce marketplace JD.com, commercial lender China Merchants Bank (CMB) has decided not to move...

Dear Readers, Financial Technology (or, more snappily, “FinTech”) has been on the rise in recent years. Financial markets are subject to multiple legal regimes, which...

What should be the regulatory approach to FinTech? Should it be about bringing FinTech under the roof of the current regulatory regime and possibly...