A new whitepaper from Innovate Finance's Transatlantic Policy Working Group (TPWG) has recommended that regulators in the U.S. do more to encourage financial technology (fintech) innovation in the regulatory field (regtech) by liaising with their international counterparts more and adopting a national policy that conforms with global norms. The TPWG was formed earlier in the year with law firm Hogan Lovells to try to foster increased cooperation between the U.S. and U.K. over global rules...

TechPreneur Africa, an organization dedicated to supporting financial technology (fintech) firms and entrepreneurs that want to increase financial inclusion and opportunities for growth across Africa, has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoU) with Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), an international financial center located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital that also supports fintechs. The agreement means that African innovators and fintech start-ups can now apply to ADGM's regulatory...

There are many famous business stories of companies such as Xerox and Kodak that fell from dominant positions due to a failure to understand or implement new technology that was set to disrupt their industry. Kodak didn't introduce digital photography over film despite developing many of the tools for fear of eliminating existing revenues, while Xerox allowed Apple and Microsoft to walk away with some of the building blocks of the modern computer revolution after not really supporting the...