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The Hokus Platform, a 25-employee insurtech with a solution connected to 100% of the life insurance market, caught the eye of FNZ, which has 4,500 employees and $1.5 trillion under management. (Photo: Shutterstock)
FINTECH

FNZ injects €2m in The Hokus Platform

The Hokus Platform, which won the Innovation Award of the Luxembourg Association of Insurance Companies last year, was spotted by the giant FNZ, which is offering it to its asset management clients to make life insurance management more fluid.

Thierry Labro • 29.09.2022
Like TisaTech in London, Nasir Zubairi and Lhoft are expected to launch an initiative around a new methodology to meet the needs of the financial centre on KYC-AML. (Photo: Eric Devillet/Lhoft)
FINTECH

Nasir Zubairi says Lhoft will launch a KYC initiative

Thierry Labro • 26.09.2022
Société Générale Securities Services, a subsidiary of the French banking group Societe Generale, employs 550 staff in Luxembourg and offers, among other things, support services for the cross-border distribution of funds. Photo: Matic Zorman/Maison Moderne
BANKS

SocGen’s SGSS enters digital assets space

Benoît Theunissen • 22.09.2022
Biba Homsy of Homsy Legal, Charles Sayac of Amundi Technology and Olivier Portenseigne of FundsDLT are seen during the “How can evolving digital transformation enable retail investors' cost-effective access to investment solutions?” panel at the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry’s Global Distribution Conference, 21 September 2022. Photo: Romain Gamba/Maison Moderne
FUNDS

Funds need to be as easy as crypto to buy: panel

Aaron Grunwald • 21.09.2022
The European Central Bank will use test interfaces built by Amazon and four other companies for its digital euro experiments. Photo credit: Gilles Lambert/Unsplash
FINTECH

Amazon among firms to work on ECB digital euro prototypes

Aaron Grunwald • 19.09.2022
At the Global Funding and Financing Summit, Deutsche Börse hosted a panel discussion on the future of digital securities. (Photo: Maison Moderne)
FINTECH

Financing summit outlines regulation benefits

Benoît Theunissen • 16.09.2022
Pascal Bouvier, co-founder and managing partner at Middlegame Ventures, which is headquartered inside the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, teaches a course on ‘how to be a fintech VC’. Staff photo
FINTECH

Why this fintech VC wants finance grads to think like a fintech VC

Aaron Grunwald • 13.09.2022
The European Central Bank should be more forthcoming on the development of the digital euro, to instil public confidence. Reports should go beyond the discrete meetings of the Eurogroup to become more transparent and attract public interest. Photo: Shutterstock
MARKETS

The digital euro must come out of the shadows

Benoît Theunissen • 13.09.2022
An open source analysis revealed a series of inconsistencies in Juicy Fields' activities. (Photo: Maison Moderne)
FINTECH

Juicy Fields’s smokescreens

Benoît Theunissen • 09.08.2022
In 2017, Blackrock CEO Larry Fink called bitcoin an “index of money laundering,” but in April 2022 he announced that Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, would explore the cryptocurrency, saying: “We are increasingly seeing interest from our clients.” Blackrock expanded its bitcoin business this week, announcing a partnership with Coinbase. Library photo: Shutterstock (2018)
FUNDS

Coinbase to provide Blackrock clients with bitcoin trading

Aaron Grunwald • 05.08.2022
Ivan Zhiznevskiy, co-founder and CEO, and Eugene Dugaev, co-founder and chief technology officer, of the payments startup 3S Money, have expansion plans. Photo: 3S Money
FINTECH

3S Money gets Luxembourg licence

Thierry Labro • 02.08.2022
Health restrictions during the pandemic boosted digital payments, but did not kill cash. Photo credit: Markus Spiske/Unsplash
FINTECH

Cash is no longer king, but it’s holding its own

Benoît Theunissen • 01.08.2022
Bitstamp is entering Italy, its third market, according to Jean-Baptiste Graftieaux, CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange. Photo: Matic Zorman/Masion Moderne
FINTECH

Crypto exchange Bitstamp adds Italy as its 3rd market

Aaron Grunwald • 26.07.2022
Serge Weyland is CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management Luxembourg and co-chairs the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry’s digital/fintech forum. Earlier this year, he said that “people started to get tired of” hearing blockchain hype that failed to deliver “any tangible results,” but now “things are definitely starting to move.” Photo: Matic Zorman
FINTECH

Jargon buster: blockchain, crypto & NFTs

Aaron Grunwald • 25.07.2022
Neobank N26 says its teams are apparently developing banking products related to cryptocurrencies and investments. Photo: Shutterstock
FINTECH

N26 looks to dip its toes in crypto

Benoît Theunissen • 14.07.2022
The digital euro, along with other central bank digital currencies, will contribute to the security of cross-border payments, according to the Bank of International Settlements. Photo: Shutterstock.
FINTECH

Central bank digital currencies could boost payment speed & security: report

Benoît Theunissen • 13.07.2022
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