For corporations and startups alike, achieving success and growth depends on a support network and ecosystem in which to collaborate. In this article, we explore eight different innovation hubs and how they help support both new enterprises and...

Corporate innovators within financial services companies experience some of the biggest compliance and legal hurdles than any other business sector. These challenges amplify when the bank has a presence in multiple countries.

The role of R&D and new...

By most accounts, financial technology (fintech) is a scorching-hot market. No one is more bullish on the sector than Goldman Sachs, which predicts that the slew of fintech companies offering online payments, crowdfunding, wealth management and...

The financial crisis of 2007 chipped away at the trust that many people used to have in traditional providers of financial services. This loss of faith, combined with the new technologies and an influx of money into fintech startups, has led to the...

First came Bitcoin, the controversial cryptocurrency invented by an anonymous coder in 2008. In the time since, Bitcoin has both surged in waves of enthusiasm and fought buffets of scandal. But even as Bitcoin itself has been slow to gain the...

The global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) recent purchased Mexican online payments startup Openpay as part of what it calls a strategy "to accelerate transformation by growing its portfolio of digital businesses." Earlier in 2016, the...

With high-quality support systems and thriving communities for entrepreneurs, the UK, and London in particular, has long been home to startups from all over the European Union. Even in light of rising uncertainties due the Brexit, the UK is likely...

It's easy to see what makes Uber or Tesla disruptive businesses now, but sniffing out the early-stage ventures that will go on to reshape an industry can be far more difficult. Veteran VC Tim Draper, founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper...

In Part I of our cryptocurrency series, we covered what cryptocurrencies are and the benefits they offer. We also discussed how cryptocurrencies are going to disrupt the real world and which areas we foresee immediate opportunities for disruption in.

In an Interview on CNBC in May 2014, Marc Andreessen said: “I compare [Bitcoin] to the Internet. The Internet was a new way to transmit data. Bitcoin's a new way to transmit money.”