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2025 Fraud Trends: Synthetic Identity, AI and Incoming Mandates

What do banks need to do to detect and prevent APP scams in real time?

Speakers from: ACI Worldwide, HSBC

10 December 2024 301

Company announcement/people

Citi's Emily Turner appointed CEO of HSBC Innovation Banking

HSBC UK Bank plc announces the appointment of Emily Turner as CEO of HSBC Innovation Banking UK, with effect from February 2025 subject to regulatory approval.

11 hours

Company announcement/retail

HSBC teams with Girlguiding to launch money skills badge

To mark the start of Talk Money Week (4-8 November), Girlguiding is today launching a ‘Money skills- I’m money confident’ badge and new activities developed with HSBC UK, to teach financial literacy and empower over 300,000 UK girls and young women aged between four and 18 to confidently manage money.

18 November 2024

News/payments

HSBC and Ant International laud results of blockchain-based tokenized deposit transfers

HSBC and Ant International have completed HKD-denominated cross-bank blockchain-based test transactions under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Ensemble Sandbox.

28 October 2024

News/payments

HSBC launches virtual EUR and GBP accounts for overseas merchants

HSBC has launched a new cross-border virtual account proposition for banks worldwide, enabling their merchant business customers trading on e-commerce sites to receive EUR and GBP payments via their local bank account.

23 October 2024

News/retail

HSBC to accept overseas credit history for UK mortgage applications

HSBC is to make it easier for international customers with no local credit history to apply for a UK mortgage.

18 October 2024

News/wholesale

HSBC launches embedded finance venture

HSBC has partnered B2B global trade network Tradeshift on a joint venture offering embedded finance solutions to business clients.

03 October 2024

News/retail

HSBC writes off Monese stake

HSBC has written off its stake in Monese just two years after investing $35 million in the mobile banking fintech.

01 October 2024

Company announcement/wealth

HSBC Premier enhances solution

Following interviews with over 2,500 mass affluent consumers, HSBC Wealth and Personal Banking is elevating the Premier proposition to the next level. This refresh is part of the bank’s aim to be the top choice for mass affluent and international customers worldwide.

27 September 2024

News/payments

HSBC calls for tech giants to help refund APP fraud victims

A senior HSBC executive is the latest banker to call for technology and social media firms to help foot the bill for compensating victims of Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud.

24 September 2024

News/retail

UK consumers turn away from branch banking

British consumers are less bothered about bank branch closures than those in the US and Europe, according to recently published research.

23 September 2024

News/security

HSBC pilots quantum-safe technology for digital gold

HSBC has successfully trialled the first application of quantum-secure technology for buying and selling tokenised physical gold.

19 September 2024