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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

News/markets

Citi and HSBC join $10.5 million round in FX marketplace Spark

Citi and HSBC have joined a $10.5 million funding round in Singapore-based low latency foreign exchange trading technology venture Spark Systems.

15 May 2020

News/payments

HSBC targets teens with PayMe wallet app

HSBC in Hong Kong is to open up its PayMe e-wallet service to teens aged 16 years and above.

13 May 2020

News/crypto

Is it time to believe the blockchain hype?

Finextra Research has collaborated with Deloitte's Richard Walker, HSBC's Mark Williamson and Ciaron Roddy and BBVA's Francisco Maroto amongst others and to produce a detailed report on the future of blockchain technology in financial services: Where is the industry now? Where could it go? How do we get there?

12 May 2020

News/crypto

Libra Association names HSBC legal chief Stuart Levey CEO

The Libra Association has named HSBC chief legal officer and former US treasury department official Stuart Levey as its first CEO.

06 May 2020

News/markets

ING and HSBC join £5.7 million funding round in TransFicc

Low latency trading and workflow outfit TransFicc has closed a series A investment round of £5.7 million led by Albion VC with participation from new investors ING and HSBC.

30 April 2020