Ensuring Data Security in Fintech Applications

Fintech startup known for popularizing trading and investment among the newer generation, Robinhood, in its latest funding round has secured another $320 million.

The fintech news arena states that this round was backed by new as well as existing investors and now the valuation of this investment firm has gone up to $8.6 billion.The latest funding round witnessed participation of investors such as TSG Consumer Partners and IVP.

The total fund raised by the digital brokerage firm went up to $600 million in a span of two months.The firm has benefitted from an increase in day trading which was a result of consumers that were stuck within their homes during the lockdown impositions due to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, which has been analyzed by analysts that have been tracking the firm and have linked this surge and funding round to a precursor to an IPO (initial public offering).Some of the analysts and traders are attributing rallies of between 300% and 500% in stocks of either soon to be bankrupt firms or bankrupt firms such as Chesapeake, JCPenney, Whiting, and Hertz to retail investors that use the investment platform of Robinhood, that has over 10 million users.In the previous month, the company stated that it might make it tougher to qualify to perform sophisticated options trading on its investment solution platform and will also make improvements to its user interface.The Menlo Park, California-based fintech has witnessed outages particularly on days that experience high trading volumes.To know more about such fintech news and updates, follow the fintechbuzz.

Fintecbuzz delivers regular content in several forms, related to daily happenings in the fintech industry. 

India has one of the best markets for fintech innovation.

The best way to find out which fintech companies in India are best is to judge them on the basis of funds raised by them, and EDUVANZ is one amongst the Top fintech companies in India. 

This is till the time that you want to make a big purchase like a house or a car and suddenly realize that you do not have enough savings in your account and are not eligible for a loan!

And no, you do not need to do any kind of hard work or number crunching as mobile application like Cleo – an AI based budgeting application will do the heavy lifting for you.The Global Fintech market is predicted to cross $300 billion by 2024.

The mouth-watering proposition of making a fortune in the Fin-tech mobile app sector has prompted many entrepreneurs to think about Fintech app development.

This is because this AI-powered Fintech app is the new poster boy of the Finance & Technology domain.What is Cleo app?Cleo is an artificial intelligence-based financial-technology app that helps the users in accomplishing their budgeting goals.The beautiful thing about Cleo is that when a user asks questions related to their bank accounts and payment details, the AI-enabled chatbot of the app answers the questions in an easy to digest manner.

For example, if a particular user asks how much did he/she spend on clothing past month, then Cleo will send the user a detailed spending report containing the date, transaction time as well as the name of the merchant.Because of the read-only method employed by Cleo, only the user can withdraw money.

To avoid privacy issues, Cleo never saves the credentials of the users on their servers, and they even encrypt sensitive data like transaction history and personal information.Cost to build an AI-based fintech mobile application like CleoThere are many factors based on which the fintech app development cost matters.

It has disrupted the traditional financial services including the money transfers, asset management, loans and fundraising, etc.

in the highly competitive industries including the banking sector.

Thereby, resulting in bringing improvement in the productivity of the business and speed, and finally eliminating the need for human and saving cost.

In order to add value to the businesses, banking sectors seem to consume conversational interfaces that help them in offering 24/7 services as it has been referred to as one of the easy and economical ways to receive feedback from the valuable customers.

It basically is a computer file that is making things work efficiently for the financial institutions, offering the potential to the companies to secure adequate losses that may occur due to any reason.“A large number of financial institutions across the globe make use of the blockchain technology for the trading of shares, making digital payments, going for security check, etc.”Innovation in the making of mobile paymentsThe rising of the mobile payments industry is the next Fintech trend.

Since there are least customers today who rely on the cash, they would love the innovation due to it being more secured in comparison to the traditional wallets.

The fintech market comprises sales of technology and platform-based financial services and some other related goods.

In 2019, the global fintech market reached a market value of around $111,240.5 million and is expected to grow to around $191,840 million in 2024, $191,840 million in 2025, and around $325,311 million in 2030.Stash, a fintech company, acts as a personal finance application for its users offering a variety of products for investing and saving purposes.

It provides valuable financial education to the users through its educational content and support.

During the signup process, Stash asks many questions from the user to determine the user’s level of risk tolerance as well as individual’s financial goals.

Depending upon the plan the user chooses, he/she can also open an individual retirement account (IRA) or an investment account for his/her kids.Consider yourself as a user and that you have chosen a subscription plan of Stashinvest to get started.

Now, you can add money to your Stashinvest account, automatically.

OVO - CB Insights noted that PT Visionet International (OVO) is the unicorn of Indonesia.

Company financial technology (fintech) payments that recorded a startup bervaluasi more than US$ 1 billion since March 14, 2019.

Valuation OVO according to the report of CB Insights titled ‘The Global Unicorn Club’ to reach US$2.9 billion.

"I think already," he said in an interview with CNBC Indonesia TV on January 31, 2019 ago.

We are focusing on the consumer,” he said on the sidelines of the Fintech Summit, the end of last September.

"We still focus on how the nih of our customers, users, partners and others, we can serve them first," he said, some time ago (13/2).