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HSBC and ABN Amro Ventures join $64.7 million round in Quantexa

Financial crime fighting platform Quantexa has raised $64.7 million in funding with support from HSBC and ABN Amro Ventures.

23 July 2020

News/startups

HSBC leads $7 million round in Episode Six

HSBC has led a $7 million funding round in digital API platform Episode Six, with contributions from Mastercard and SBI Investment.

22 July 2020

News/startups

HSBC backs Hong Kong open banking initiative

HSBC has teamed up with Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) to help startups drive open banking innovation on the island.

16 July 2020

News/payments

Covid-19 will ignite new agendas for payment trends and regulations

With the Covid-19 pandemic bringing to the fore long-term trends in the banking and payments industries, professionals shared their views on what lies ahead as part of PayExpo’s digital event.

15 July 2020

News/cloud

HSBC signs multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services

HSBC has signed a long-term strategic cloud deal with Amazon Web Services to create a more personalised banking experience for its millions of customers worldwide.

15 July 2020

News/retail

HSBC rolls out Apple Business Chat service

HSBC UK and its first direct subsidiary have introduced a feature that lets customers contact them via the Messages app on Apple devices.

14 July 2020

News/cloud

Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud agree multi-year deal

German banking giant Deutsche Bank has agreed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud for the provision and joint development of cloud services.

07 July 2020

News/startups

HSBC invests $7m in data privacy firm Privitar

HSBC has invested $7 million in Privitar, topping up a recent $80 million Series C funding round for the UK-based data privacy startup.

23 June 2020

News/people

HSBC resumes redundancy programme

HSBC is to resume a massive job cutting programme that was initially put on hold in the early months of the Coronavirus pandemic.

17 June 2020

News/markets

HSBC launches AI-powered equity index family

HSBC has teamed up with IBM Watson and artificial intelligence specialist EquBot to launch equity index products powered by AI and big data.

01 June 2020

News/retail

Challengers beat incumbents on account opening experience

Many of the UK's leading high street banks have fallen behind their upstart digital rivals when it comes to making it easy and fast to open an account, suggests a review of 12 players' user experience.

25 May 2020

Company announcement/payments

HSBC HK converts card loyalty rewards into air mileage

HSBC personal credit card cardholders can start to convert their RewardCash (RC) into mileage free of charge on HSBC Reward+ app from 18 May, along with gifts, vouchers and privileges available from this one-stop reward redemption platform.

18 May 2020