Yandex puts Apple Pay online

Online stores and other merchants, which accept payments via Yandex.Checkout, Russia’s leading payment service provider, can now offer Apple Pay. Read more: www.finextra.com

750 startups apply to join YES Bank’s inaugural accelerator

The first cohort of YES FINTECH has received phenomenal response from the global community of startups, with 753 applicants around the world. Read more: www.finextra.com

Nordea readies for PSD2 with Open Banking API

Nordea has set up a site for developers to experiment with the bank's Open Banking APIs in a quest to become the "go-to hub" for banking APIs in the Nordics. Read more: www.finextra.com

German & Austrian SMEs look to Finnest for growth

Finnest, an SME or “Mittelstand spezialist,” is helping Austria-based Biogena to fund its expansion in Germany. Read more: www.crowdfundinsider.com

Japan and Singapore establish FinTech co-operation framework

The framework enables FSA and MAS to refer FinTech companies in their countries to each other’s markets. Read more: www.finextra.com

eToro: Wake up to the way to invest in 2016

eToro adds 30 Exchange-Traded Funds and over 70 listed stocks to its social investment platform. Read more: www.economicvoice.com

Chatbot & The Rise of the Automated Insurance Agent

Insurance Chatbot’s are the hot topic right now. Rick Huckstep looks at the Automated Insurance Agent for InsurTech Weekly. Read more: www.the-digital-insurer.com

Swiss Re launches first-ever InsurTech accelerator

Swiss Re has launched its first-ever corporate InsurTech accelerator to help startups develop business solutions that it says can ‘revolutionise the way re/insurers conducts business’. Read more: www.intelligentinsurer.com

InsureTechs force the insurance industry to rethink

Actors in the insurance industry put the whole sector under universal suspicion in the minds of customers. Customers want to be able to identify with a company. Read more: insurancethoughtleadership.com

Why Hyperledger wants to be the ‘Linux of blockchain’

Blockchain technology offers many different benefits to enterprise developers but there’s no cross-industry open standard for how to develop it. Read more: www.itworldcanada.com

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