Sector focus: Finance
The financial sector is increasingly moving towards disruptive technologies and disintermediation, such as peer-to-peer lending marketplaces and startups exploiting blockchain technology, best known for powering cryptocurrency bitcoin.
The changes in the sector are underlined by several new actors joining the corporate venturing world and others adding new funds and units to their existing operations.
Several players in the financial sector set up bootcamp, accelerator and incubator programmes this year, including payment services company Mastercard, financial services firm Maybank and investment bank UBS.
Meanwhile,…
