HSBC Holdings Plc, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services holding company, has plans to downsize its staff and cut 10,000 high-paid jobs, which makes up over 4% of the company’s manpower. Such a decision has been motivated by the intention of Noel Quinn, provisional CEO of HSBC, to reduce costs the whole banking group is incurring.HSBC did not provide any comments. As Financial Times has reported on Sunday, job slashing will address those whose positions are high-paid. An...
Read More »Vanguard Group to Disrupt FX Market Via Blockchain-Powered P2P Trading Platform
Photo: Vanguard / LinkedInThe Vanguard Group is currently running tests on a new foreign exchange (FX) service which is powered by blockchain technology and will run peer-to-peer. The mutual fund giant is doing this to encourage asset trading and make this activity easier for managers, letting them trade currencies without the costs associated with involving the big investment banks.Bloomberg reports that a familiar source close to the project has revealed that the platform has already been...
Read More »Deutsche Bank Investment Lifts Fintech Startup Deposit Solutions to €1B Valuation
Open banking fintech company Deposit Solutions received its latest financing round of just over €40m involving Deutsche Bank. Part-owner and German Venture Capital firm Finlab revealed this in a statement on Wednesday. As part of the financing round, the shares of the Fintech startup were revalued according to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the company is now said to be worth about €1 Billion.Last year, the startup also received a financing round of €100 million...
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