India’s pace in emerging FinTech universe with some key statistics
May 29, 2018 09:04 am UTC| Fintech Research & Analysis Insights & Views Governance
This write-up is intended exclusively for readers who want to better comprehend the paradigm shifts in the global FinTech landscape. The major emphasis here would be on Payments, Remittance, Blockchain and Indian adoption....
May 29, 2018 08:04 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Bearish NZDUSD scenarios below 0.67 if: 1) The housing market slowdown becomes disorderly; 2) The immigration rolls over quickly; 3) NZ bank funding issues intensify, causing the market to question NZs ability to...
May 29, 2018 07:17 am UTC| Technicals Research & Analysis
On daily plotting of NZDUSD, the price in minor trend has tumbled after breaching below channel support. For now, despite minor rallies, more dips likely on failure swings at 21DMA, while shooting star pattern candle has...
Ex-chief at KPMG strategy and operations associates with XinFin
May 29, 2018 06:21 am UTC| Fintech Research & Analysis Insights & Views Commentary
The buzz around FinTech has gained the substantial attention of traditional financial institutions, start-ups, venture capitalists, and regulators. Banks and regulators are hard pressed to revisit their operating model and...
May 28, 2018 13:41 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views
This write-up runs us through the parallels between Italy and Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan too blames the messenger, in his case: the financial markets (implicitly: the foreign financial markets) for the lira...
Veteran investors and research scholars’ glimpse at Bitcoin economics and financials
May 28, 2018 12:50 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary
In the recent past, a policy advisor in Fintech working at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco took a stab at establishing the value of a Bitcoin and we covered that news in our recent post. While evaluating the...
FxWirePro: Relative Value options structures to monetizing sterling’s rattling
May 28, 2018 12:05 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Away from the systemic focus on Treasury yields and the broad dollar, one idiosyncratic G10 FX development in recent weeks is the increased political noise around GBP. Our macro strategists noted last week that the...
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