Skip to main content

EPFR Joins FinTech Sandbox as Data Partner to Promote Innovation in Financial Technology and Services

 


FinTech Sandbox, is  a nonprofit that drives global FinTech innovation and collaboration, announces today’s partnership with EPFR, a subsidiary of Informa plc and worldwide industry leader providing fund flows and allocation data to financial institutions. EPFR will make the data available to FinTech Sandbox to help fuel the future of financial innovation.

Informa Financial Intelligence serves the world’s largest investment managers, investment banks and consumer retail banks by providing competitive benchmarking, market sentiment and specialty data that powers better investment decisions and product development. Datasets made available to FinTech Sandbox residents will include institutional fund flows for equity and fixed income funds on a daily, weekly and monthly frequency, along with monthly fund allocations at a country, sector, industry and stock level. FinTech Sandbox facilitates innovation in the financial sector by making data and infrastructure available to well-qualified FinTech startups points access is most impactful. These startups, in return, are expected to collaborate with each other, by sharing learning’s and advancements that benefit the FinTech ecosystem. Participating startups pay no fees, and no equity is taken.

@USFCX Community Center

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

To boost trade, Africa is simplifying international payment systems

It's hard to transfer money between African countries. The Ghanaian king settled a bill with a Nigerian attorney. His experience highlights a systemic problem impeding Africa's economic growth: high transaction costs and inconvenience. 15% of all imports and exports occur between 55 African countries. 60% of Asian trade is within Asia. 70% in EU. The difficulty of international payments hinders African trade. There are also high tariffs, long border procedures, and congested roads. Proponents of AfCFTA say easing trade restrictions will boost trade, FDI, and economic growth. 50 million people will be lifted out of extreme poverty by 2035 due to the accord's positive impact on real income, which is projected to rise 9.1%.  Another issue: In Africa, currency values fluctuate. From July 2021 to 2022, Ghana's currency fell from 6 to 8. Volatile currencies make financial transactions more costly and risky. To overcome these problems, PAPSS facilitates financial transactions ...

Cryptocurrency market value went up

A new record was achieved on Monday for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value, Ether, with a new high of more than $4,700. A 12,000 percent increase in the value of SOL, Solana's cryptocurrency, has occurred in the last 12 months. In New York City last week, more than 5,000 people gathered to support nonfungible tokens at the NFT.NYC conference. According to CoinDesk, guests exchanged a total of 700,000 NFTs at the event. The cryptocurrency "Squid Game," which was inspired by Netflix's blockbuster TV show "Squid Game," suffered a huge plunge this weekend. Customers were unable to sell the token on Pancakeswap after CoinMarketCap received "a number of reports," the cryptocurrency exchange said in a statement. As of this writing, the token's white paper and website are no longer accessible online. Quentin Tarantino, the director of "Pulp Fiction," will release seven uncensored segments from the film. For his first three payc...

Cryptocurrency trading is "not suited for the general public", according to Singapore's central bank.

Cryptocurrency investors in Singapore may have to go through a risk awareness assessment before being allowed to trade. They will also not be able to use credit cards or any form of borrowing to trade cryptocurrencies. These are among the measures proposed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to protect retail consumers. A risk awareness assessment is also being proposed to ensure that retail customers have sufficient knowledge of the risks involved. DPT service providers will not be allowed to offer any monetary or non-monetary incentives to retail customers upon sign-up, or to any person to encourage referrals of its service.