An article in Business Insider highlights a $96 billion hedge fund, Man Group; the firm initially held off on rolling out their AI powered trading bot out broadly until recently; by 2015 AI was contributing half of the profits to Man Group’s largest funds. Source
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Fidelity’s chief executive Abigail Johnson spoke about the company’s current projects involving cryptocurrency at the Consensus conference; they have made venture investments and are also looking at applications of blockchain technology; Fidelity has set up a mining operation which is making money for the company. Source
Former Securities Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt, Sarah Friar, chief financial officer at Square, and Scott Sanborn, CEO of Lending Club recently spoke on a panel about regulation for fintech companies and recent improprieties; Sanborn noted that sound corporate governance is not unique to fintech, referencing the Wells Fargo story; panelists discussed that regulation is always behind innovation and how regulators and fintech companies may strike a balance. Source
Goldman Sachs first entered the market with the acquisition of GE Bank and the subsequent launch of GS bank; Tearsheet explores their other moves in the market more recently in fintech; Goldman Sachs has invested in 23 fintech startups and is the only top ten bank that has hit every category in its investments: blockchain, data analytics, insurance, personal finance, wealth management, financial services software, lending, payments and settlement, real estate and regulatory technology. Source
American Banker shares some of the companies that may stand to benefit from the Equifax hack as identity verification becomes top of mind; Mitek is planning to roll out a new product called Mobile Verify for Lending; other companies that have similar solutions include Trulioo, VixVerify and AuthenticID. Source
ZhongAn Insurance jumped 18 percent on debut after the biggest ever IPO by a fintech firm in Asia; ZhongAn CEO Jeffrey Chen says, the rarity of technology listings in Hong Kong gave ZhongAn’s IPO an extra appeal for investors looking to diversify their holdings; both Ant Financial and Lufax are considering IPOs in Hong Kong, according to sources. Source
Shenzhen Suishou Technology announces that KKR will invest in Suishou’s Series C funding round; Suishou is a personal finance management platform that provides individuals with a one-stop mobile destination to track spending, organize budgets, and manage credit card usage; KKR makes the investment from its Asian Fund III; no further details of the transaction were not disclosed. Source
OnFido was founded by three Oxford grads who are all under 30; Microsoft’s venture capital arm participated in the Series C round; other participants included Crane Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures and other existing investors; in total the company has raised over $60 million for their product that uses machine learning to verify identity. Source
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