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LendInvest secures £150m partnership with Barclays and HSBC

LendInvest, an asset management platform for property finance, has agreed a £150 million partnership with Barclays and HSBC to get funding to UK property entrepreneurs.

16 August 2021

News/payments

HSBC to issue accessible vertical cards

HSBC UK has teamed up with Alzheimer’s Society to design a new range of cards with features that will support people with dementia, as well as visual impairments, learning difficulties and dyslexia.

11 August 2021

News/security

Woman left on hold for seven hours by HSBC after trying to report fraud

Julie, a woman from Devon who lost £3,900 after fraudsters posed as her bank spent a total of seven hours on the hold at HSBC, racking up a £50 phone bill, as she tried to report the fraud.

04 August 2021

News/startups

HSBC Asset Management creates specialist fintech investment arm

The asset manmagement arm of HSBC has launched a new venture capital investment strategy aimed at giving clients expopsure to companies that will participate in "the transformation of financial services".

03 August 2021

News/retail

HSBC to reduce real estate by 20%; introduces mindfulness sessions for stressed out home workers

HSBC intends to reduce its office space by 20% by the end of 2021, taking advantage of the work from home trend during the global pandemic to reduce real estate expenses.

02 August 2021

News/markets

Commerzbank faces €200m hit after ditching HSBC outsourcing deal

Commerzbank will write off €200 million in the second quarter after deciding to abandon plans to outsource securities settlement to HSBC, citing "technical implementation risks".

23 July 2021

News/cloud

Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and others hit by major DNS outage

Late Thursday afternoon Akamai reported a problem with its Edge DNS service, resulting in outages at thousands of websites.

22 July 2021

News/retail

Researchers use bank data to understand how to reduce gambling-related harm

After analysing behavioural data from HSBC and Monzo customers, UK charity GambleAware has published a guide for financial services firms looking to help vulnerable customers.

15 July 2021

Company announcement/sustainable

HSBC sends 500 staff to sustainability school

The Chartered Banker Institute (the Institute) and HSBC UK are working together to develop the knowledge and expertise of the bank’s commercial banking team to better support UK businesses navigate a transition to net zero.

01 July 2021

News/regulation

HSBC joins UAE KYC Blockchain platform

HSBC has signed on as the fourth founding member bank of a blockchain-based KYC data sharing coalition in the UAE.

01 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Modernisation, a catalyst for payments utopia

With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.

29 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