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Discuss your project ideas with potential partners and find out about funding opportunities in your countries at our next Celtic-Plus Proposers Day in Luxembourg on 13th December 2017.

We intend to stimulate projects in particular in the vertical field of “FinTech meets Telecom”. Please come and see the keynote presentations and the project ideas that will be presented in this domain.

Projects ideas from all communication technologies (from networks to applications) are also welcome. Celtic projects are bottom-up and are open to all research topics as laid down in “Celtic-Plus – Scope and Research Areas 2016/2017”.

Celtic-Plus Proposers Days are discussion fora for organisations related to telecommunications and it’s verticals that are interested to participate in a Celtic-Plus project and want to benefit from performing collaborative research through the EUREKA Cluster Celtic-Plus.

Please have a look at the Agenda and register for the Celtic-Plus Proposers Day.

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Pour répondre aux questions les plus fréquentes des start-up fintech basées ou non au Grand-Duché, la Luxembourg house of financial technology organisera de manière ponctuelle des sessions de questions/réponses sous forme de vidéoconférence avec des experts.

Face à l’afflux de questions qu’elle reçoit et qui sont souvent identiques, la Lhoft a décidé de prendre les devants en mettant en place une hotline ponctuelle destinée aux start-up fintech. Une première session sera organisée jeudi 23 novembre dans ses locaux entre 8h30 et 10h30.

Sur place, des experts d’horizons très variés seront présents, représentant des cabinets d’avocats, des firmes de consultance, des sociétés de capital-risque ou encore des institutions publiques.

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The potentially disruptive power of blockchain - a distributed ledger to record all transactions in a format that is checked and authenticated by participants - has been the hottest discussion topic in financial services in recent years. Luxembourg benefits from pioneering private sector blockchain initiatives as well as the country´s efforts to build a national blockchain infrastructure. As the largest investment funds centre in Europe, Luxembourg is taking the driving seat to build a European blockchain infrastructure to ensure the sector can leverage Its full potential.

LUXEMBOURG COMPLETES FIRST LIVE BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION

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The company, which handles online, on-the-go and direct payments, will move its headquarters from Amsterdam where it was founded in ING's innovation hub.

Mobile payment service Payconiq is relocating its headquarters to Luxembourg as it seeks to expand in Europe.

The company, which handles online, on-the-go and direct payments, will move its HQ from Amsterdam where it was founded in ING's innovation hub.

"The relocation of our headquarters to the heart of western Europe is a new step in the development of Payconiq as a European payment service," said Duke Prins, Payconiq Chief Executive Officer.

The move comes after the company joined forces in August with Luxembourg fintech startup Digicash Payments, a mobile payments service offered by a number of banks in the Grand-Duchy.

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Das FinTech PingPong, ein auf grenzüberschreitende E-Commerce-Zahlungen spezialisiertes Unternehmen, hat seine europäische Niederlassung in Luxemburg gegründet.

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Smartly regulating financial innovation requires all stakeholders – the financial sector, start-ups, regulators and academics – to understand technology and law.'

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What does the bank of the future look like? This is the burning question that was addressed to the 27 students of the Luxembourg Tech School gathered for a Hackathon hosted by the LHoFT Foundation in Kirchberg and supported by Digital Lëtzebuerg and Temenos, the world’s leading banking software vendor, who provided the technical infrastructure.

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Natixis Asset Management has announced that investors have successfully purchased shares in its funds through FundsDLT, the Luxembourg blockchain-powered fund distribution platform for fund managers. This is the first real blockchain transaction in the global investment fund industry.

The asset manager, based in Luxembourg and a leading affiliate of Natixis Global Aasset Management, announced its intention to be the first asset management player in the industry to use the FundsDLT platform applying blockchain technology across several of its business lines. For the first time in the fund industry, investors are using a blockchain based platform to purchase real funds’ shares with real cash.
FundsDLT is the result of collaboration between Fundsquare (a subsidiary of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange), InTech (a subsidiary of POST Group) and KPMG Luxembourg. The successful transaction is a significant milestone for Luxembourg’s FinTech environment and its investment fund industry.

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For the past four decades Luxembourg’s financial sector has been the principal driver of the country’s economy. The government now hopes that by encouraging fintech it will be able to insulate the industry from the challenges of the digital age as well as allaying concerns over the grand duchy’s high economic reliance on financial services.

That effort has taken on greater urgency over the past decade as banking secrecy has eroded and the government has been forced to rethink the business models of the country’s private banks. Reforms that threaten the country’s competitive advantage as a low-tax haven for multinational groups have also focused attention on how best to defend its status as a corporate hub.

Britain’s planned departure from the EU has provided policymakers with an incentive to build a fintech hub in Luxembourg that could attract UK technology companies looking to maintain a foothold in the EU.

Prime minister Xavier Bettel has made the country’s digital transformation a priority since succeeding the long-serving Jean-Claude Juncker in December 2013. Mr Bettel launched the Digital Lëtzebuerg [Luxembourg] initiative the following year as a platform for encouraging new technology in the financial industry as well as society as a whole.

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FROM POC TO OPERATIONS
Infrachain is non profit organisation created by the emerging blockchain-related industry and supported by the Luxembourg government.

Infrachain closes the gap between the maturing blockchain technologies and the regulatory and legal requirements. In order to achieve this goal, Infrachain creates a supplementary governance model on top of existing technologies allowing blockchain Proof of Concepts to go into operations - now. 
 
Our mission is to:
 
Leapfrog the adoption curve of blockchain by creating a compliant-ready community and permissioned node blockchain infrastructure .
 
Provide disintermediation services to all aspects of the economy (Fintech, Healthcare, Public services, Supply chain management, …).
 
Create a vibrant European community of blockchain professionals driving and shaping the future blockchain industry.

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Inaugurée officiellement ce lundi, la Luxembourg House of Financial Technology suscite déjà l’enthousiasme de nombreux acteurs. Quelque 50 start-up FinTech ont déjà introduit une candidature pour être incubées dans cette nouvelle structure dédiée à l’innovation au cœur de l’écosystème financier. De nouveaux partenaires rejoignent l’aventure.

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PayPal, 'Fonds National de la Recherche' and University of Luxembourg sign agreement to create research chair in FinTech sector.

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The Fintech Hotline, a simple solution to a common problem
One Question, One Answer, One Immediate Solution

Fintech startups tend to have a lot of questions, and most of the time the questions are similar — related to legal issues or banking. More specific queries might be more technical, IT-related or even real-estate based.

To meet the needs of the Fintech startups, based in or outside Luxembourg, the LHoFT is gathering a panel of experts to provide answers as quickly and directly as possible. The primary objective is providing a solution for the caller, but ultimately we aim to create a database of answers for the benefit of the whole Fintech ecosystem.

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The Fincluders Bootcamp -- a two-week long programme dedicated to microfinance  -- starts in Luxembourg on Monday. 

The training will involve coaching and mentoring for 12 selected fintech start-ups looking to increase financial inclusion in a number of countries worldwide, from Jordan and Kenya to South Africa and Georgia. 

The selected participants will spend one week in the Grand Duchy where they will receive extensive mentoring and coaching as well as take part in peer to peer learning activities.

The participating start-ups were selected through a Fincluders Startups competition organised by the European Fund for Southeastern Europe (EFSE) and the SANAD fund for small and medium-sized entreprises in the Middle East and North Africa.

In Luxembourg, the bootcamp is held in partnership with the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) with the support of the Ministry of Finance and the Aide au Développement Autonome (ADA) organisation.

"Luxembourg is the microfinance centre for Europe and it makes sense to capitalise on this by having 12 really incredible startups from all over the world spend the week in the Grand Duchy learning as well as discussing the latest challenges of financial inclusion and networking with the Luxembourg finance community," said Nasir Zubairi, CEO of LHoFT.  

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The Luxembourg Bankers' Association ABBL has launched a dedicated membership package for companies active in financial technology (fintech).

Responding to a growing need for banks and other financial services providers to collaborate on both regulatory and technological advancements, ABBL aims to bring these players together and help them form partnerships. 

The new service will also allow fintech start-ups to gain first-hand information on Luxembourg's financial sector, from bank representatives, lawyers and consultants, and will help these small players to "have a voice" within the industry.

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PingPong a choisi le Luxembourg pour établir son siège européen. La fintech chinoise vient de recevoir l’agrément nécessaire pour son activité: les paiements en ligne entre les acteurs chinois du e-commerce et leurs clients européens. 

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Pour leur seconde édition, les European Fintech Awards 2017 ont retenu huit start-up luxembourgeoises dans leur top 100, qui a été révélé vendredi. Les meilleures d’entre elles seront sélectionnées pour les finales qui se dérouleront le 27 septembre prochain à Bruxelles.

Le top 100 qui en découle rassemble des entreprises de toute l’Europe et d’horizons très divers. On retrouve en effet à la fois des sociétés directement impliquées dans le secteur financier, comme SnapSwap ou MyBucks, et d’autres qui touchent plus aux regtech, comme Governance.io ou Seqvoia.

Voici la liste des huit start-up luxembourgeoises présentes dans le Top 100:

• Alto.Fund
• Birdee
• Digicash
• Governance.io, élue Fintech de l’année 2016 aux Fintech Awards
• MyBucks
• Scorechain
• Seqvoia
• SnapSwap

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Dirk Zetzsche, professeur et chercheur auprès de l’Université du Luxembourg, s’est associé à deux autres spécialistes des fintech, Douglas Arner à Hong Kong et Ross Buckley à Sydney, pour faire avancer la recherche sur la réglementation des fintech.

L’Université du Luxembourg a annoncé ce mercredi que l’un de ses membres, le professeur Dirk Zetzsche, titulaire de la chaire Ada en finance inclusive, s’était associé à deux autres chercheurs – le professeur Douglas Arner, de l’université de Hong Kong, et le professeur Ross Buckley, de l’université de Sydney – pour faire avancer la recherche sur le droit et la réglementation des fintech.

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More than just an initiative, Digital Luxembourg is a mindset, and a common goal for the Government and the ICT community in Luxembourg. Together, project by project, we build the Luxembourg of the future. This report aims at providing an overview of the progress achieved so far.

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The top prizes at the FinTech Awards Luxembourg, held on 28 June at KPMG’s headquarters in Kirchberg, were awarded to AIFMaps, PayKey (first runner up), and getmeIns (second runner up). The Women in FinTech Award, given irrespectively of the other prizes, went to Blanco Services. The jury additionally decided to give a special mention to CarPay-Diem. The winners were whittled out of a competitive pool of 15 semi-finalists.

From left to right: Nasir Zubairi (CEO of the LHoFT and co-founder of the Fintech Awards Luxembourg), Fintech Startup of the Year 2017 represented by V. Jacob Bernstein (AIFMaps), Luxembourg’s Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna, Georges Bock (head of tax and co-founder of the Fintech Awards Luxembourg – KPMG Luxembourg).

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel opened the Awards, welcoming the contestants to a country that values entrepreneurship. “In Luxembourg you will find a government working on concrete solutions to push research and innovation into the finance sector,” said Mr Bettel. He added, “Our ecosystem can adapt rapidly to a changing environment and this will always be amongst our strengths.”

The semi-finalists came from as far away as China and Israel, though the bulk were European, including three Luxembourgish startups. They varied in sector, including regulatory technology (“RegTech”), investment management, blockchain, payment, and others.

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Temenos Group (SIX: TEMN), the software specialist for banking and finance, has become the latest Leadership Circle Partner of the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology Foundation (The LHoFT).

In the framework of this partnership, Temenos and the LHoFT will work together to deliver two events in the coming weeks as part of their longer-term collaboration.

The first event is the LTS Fintech Hackathon in Luxembourg. Over the course of the last weekend of June, 30 teenage students from the Luxembourg Tech School (LTS) will develop and present their answers to the question: “What does the bank of the future look like?” The students will be guided by various senior technology and business mentors from the local financial services industry. The event will also be supported by Luxembourg’s Ministry of State and Digital Lëtzebuerg initiative.

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The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) has at last opened its doors and is now poring over the applications of 50 fintech start-up companies.

The LHoFT is a public/private partnership that aims to establish the Grand Duchy as a European fintech centre, offering start-up incubation and co-working spaces.

Of the 50 applicants, 10 will be selected to set up shop at the LHOFT's Innovation Hub.

The LHOFT is looking for start-up companies offering something new in such areas as digital investing and portfolio management, blockchain applications, payment solutions, data analytics, financial services artificial intelligence, security and authentication, and regulation technology, among other things.

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Our list of the top nine fintechs in Luxembourg worth watching.

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