Sifted shares that women make up around 20% of the total number of fintech executive roles globally; Europe largely lags...
Credit scoring company FICO is starting to make some changes to how they view consumers with rising debt and those...
FICO has released a new product to help lenders figure out which consumers are most financially resilient and therefore better...
Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS) launched with their first deal in Europe to serve as the custodian to store London-based crypto...
The new API by Fidelity Investments called Fidelity Access will give third parties access to customer data; the idea behind the program is for customers to give apps focused on tax prep, budgeting or portfolio advice access to their Fidelity data; Fidelity believes this will cut down on cyber crime as access will be more secure instead of a user passing along their credentials; they are following a number of other financial institutions who have started similar programs recently. Source.
Fidelity has launched a new data sharing hub called Akoya in a bid to end screen scraping and clarify data...
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
Akoya is currently Fidelity’s data-sharing arm but now will become its own company, owned by Fidelity, The Clearing House and...
Fidelity Investments said that it will allow its institutional customers to buy and sell Bitcoin “within a few weeks” according...
Fifth Third Bank will fund loans on the platform and also receive platform borrower referrals; in December 2016, Fifth Third Bank participated in a $16.5 million Series B funding round supporting ApplePie Capital; the ApplePie Capital lending platform was established in January 2015 and specializes in loans to franchise businesses across the United States; it has partnered with over 60 franchise brands and financed over $100 million for franchise businesses. Source