Intesa Sanpaolo - News, Articles & Research

Intesa Sanpaolo signs deal with Thought Machine for new digital core

Intesa Sanpaolo has roped in core banking supplier Thought Machine to build the backbone for a new mass market digital bank, part of a $4.8 billion technology spend earmarked in the Italian bank's 2022-2025 business plan.

10 February 2022

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments innovation and the benefits cascading down the waterfall model

EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.

30 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association today welcomed the global banking community to EBAday 2021. Running from 28-30 June, the virtual conference is being led by some of the most influential leaders and practitioners in the financial services sector, and dives into the current and future trends of the European and international payments landscape – as well as the latest developments across digital banking, liquidity management, open banking, real-time payments, and more.

28 June 2021

Finextra TV/payments

Intesa Sanpaolo's top trends from instant payments to cross borders

Stefano Favale, Managing Director & Global Head of Global Transaction Banking at Intesa Sanpaolo, speaks to FinextraTV in the lead up to EBAday 2021 about how the payments world is changing, the top trends we're seeing in instant payments to cross borders, what real value banks can gain and the role of the EBA.

18 June 2021

Company announcement/devops

Intesa Sanpaolo implements Murex Test to improve DevOps experience

Murex, the global leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets, and Intesa Sanpaolo Group have successfully implemented Murex testing automation solution, an important step in Intesa’s continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) journey.

12 May 2021

Company announcement/wholesale

Intesa Sanpaolo opens Digital Corporate & Transaction Banking Academy

Intesa Sanpaolo and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Cetif announce the launch of the Digital Corporate & Transaction Banking Academy, which aims to guide entrepreneurs and managers through the process of digital transformation and internationalisation.

26 January 2021

Company announcement/people

Intesa Sanapolo to hire 3500 new staff as 7200 take voluntary exit package

Intesa Sanpaolo will hire 1,000 people in addition to the 2,500 hires already envisaged in the agreement that the Bank signed on 29 September 2020 with Trade Unions FABI, FIRST/CISL, FISAC/CGIL, UILCA and UNISIN.

15 January 2021

Company announcement/cloud

Intesa Sanpaolo and Google conclude regional cloud agreement

Building upon a Memorandum of Understanding signed on 21 May 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo, TIM and Google Cloud have signed the final agreements on the basis of which the Bank will migrate a large part of its information system to Google Cloud, which will meet the highest international security and data protection standards and will rely on TIM’s Italian Data Centers in Milan and Turin.

04 January 2021

Company announcement

Intersa Sanpaolo signs supply chain finance MoU with Kyriba

Intesa Sanpaolo has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kyriba, a global fintech leader in supply chain finance solutions, to create and make available an innovative Dynamic Discounting service for global businesses.

18 November 2020

News/markets

LSE agrees €4.3 billion sale of Borsa Italiana to Euronext

The London Stock Exchange has agreed to sell Borsa Italiana to Euronext for €4.3 billion, paving the way for its takeover of financial data provider Refinitiv.

09 October 2020

Company announcement/people

Intesa Sanpaolo signs trade union agreement over 5000 voluntary exits and 2500 new hires by 2023

Intesa Sanpaolo announces that last night the Bank signed an agreement with the national Secretariats and Group Trade Delegations FABI, FIRST CISL, FISAC/CGIL, UILCA and UNISIN, which aims at enabling generational change at no social cost, while continuing to ensure an alternative to the possible paths for staff reskilling and redeployment as well as the enhancement of the skills of people of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group resulting from the acquisition of UBI Banca finalised on 5 August 2020.

02 October 2020

Company announcement/startups

Intesa Sanpaolo taps the circular economy for fresh innovation thinking

The "Circularity goes digital" initiative kicks off with its aim of accelerating adoption of the circular economy by Italian companies through digital technologies and open innovation.

03 September 2020