Robo-advisors are becoming increasingly popular as a useful tool for making good financial decisions. The Colombian company Alkanza develops these automated services that use algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze millions of potential investments and provide users with the best options for ensuring profitability from the money they invest.

The Higgs boson made the Large Hadron Collider and CERN world famous. However, the European Organization for Nuclear Research also conducts many other experiments that are less well known. Two of them  – Neutron Time of Flight (n_TOF) and ISOLDE – are focused on nuclear physics and their findings could be used to treat cancer or produce safer and cleaner nuclear energy, for example.

Atom Bank has been recognized as one of the most innovative startups in the 2016 Fintech 100 ranking. BBVA has a 29.5% stake in the mobile-only bank operating in the U.K.

The Catalan company specializing in artificial intelligence closed a $12-million investment round to expand its technology.

With the final presidential debate in Las Vegas wrapped up and the entourage moved on, a new show with an arguably larger supporting staff is heading into town. Now in its’ 5th year, Money20/20 will host over 10 000 guests over four days this week, eager to learn about how technology is changing digital financial services and meet the people behind it. So what are the things to look out for at this key fixture on the fintech calendar?

If the second edition of Fintech University proved anything, it’s that fintech is still hot.

The hardware business related to virtual reality will be worth more than 50,000 million dollars in 2021, according to expert estimates, but for the moment all the promising expectations are yet to be fulfilled.

For millennials, new technology and digital platforms are a comfort zone, however, saving is still a difficult place to access for the generation of monitors and social networks.

A model based on improved multi-channel experiences to interact with customers and meet their needs. This model must take advantage of interactions with social media to increase customer loyalty.