KPMG International has signed up as an alliance partner deal with Matchi.biz, an online portal for the banking and financial services sector and those wishing to reach this audience, in a bid to improve access to financial services innovation for clients in the financial technology (fintech) market
Matchi is a fintech matchmaking platform that connects banks and insurance companies with financial services technology start-ups and innovations.
Ian Pollari, global co-lead of KPMG's fintech practice, said: ‘Our alliance with Matchi answers key questions for financial institutions of how they find the right fintech, how they can better evaluate its quality, and how they engage with fintech companies, many of which are small start-ups.’
KPMG is also working with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and academic partners - the Polsky Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Tsinghua University Graduate School at Shenzhen, and the University of Sydney Business School – to help fund a research project on to benchmark the developments of alternative finance markets.
A series of reports will be produced over the next six months covering China, Asia Pacific, the Americas and Europe.
Pollari said: ‘This will assist policy-makers, regulators and industry in monitoring, understanding and where necessary, taking the right steps to facilitate the growth of alternative finance markets, such as marketplace lending -peer to peer lending, crowd-funding, etc.’
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