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How to Realise a Digital Strategy in Financial Services

30 April 2018 962 downloads

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Deutsche Bank looks to big data for stock price clues

Deutsche Bank's research unit has unveiled an interactive web tool that uses big data in an effort to quantify the importance of intangibles, such as environmental and social issues, on stock prices.

27 April 2018

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Swift Business Forum London - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum London 2018. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry, exploring how far and how fast the transformation of financial services will take place in the UK and beyond.

24 April 2018

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'Fake data' will make banks vulnerable - Accenture

Many banks are not doing enough to verify the validity and accuracy of their data, leaving them vulnerable to false insights that could lead to bad decisions, according to Accenture.

20 April 2018

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Microsoft defends support for controversial Cloud Act

A long-running court battle between Microsoft and the US government about whether the latter had the right to access emails held in Microsoft's Irish data centre has come to an anticlimactic end after a judge dismissed the case, ruling it to be "moot" due to the recent passing of the Cloud (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act.

05 April 2018

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Singapore's MAS preps guidelines for ethical use of AI and data analytics

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has brought together industry players to work on guidelines for the "responsible and ethical" use of AI and data analytics in the financial services sector.

04 April 2018

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Swift Business Forum Canada - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum Canada 2018 in Toronto. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry, exploring how far, and how fast, the transformation of financial services will take place in Canada and beyond.

21 March 2018

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JPMorgan-backed FinLab competition calls for applications from women and people of colour

The Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab), an innovation programme backed by JPMorgan Chase, is looking to make fintech a little less male and white, calling on entrepreneurs of colour, women and people with disabilities to take up its latest challenge to develop products that can support under-represented communities - and, in the process, bag a slice of a $3 million prize fund.

01 March 2018

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Human traders out of pocket as buy-side shifts budget to technology spend

Institutional investors are shifting budgets away from human traders to spend more on technology, according to research conducted by Greenwich Associates.

13 February 2018

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GoCompare opens up APIs to fintech firms

UK price comparison site GoCompare is opening up its APIs to fintech firms, letting them pump in anonymised transaction data for analysis.

31 January 2018

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Sbanken opens developer portal and invites customers to build their own digital bank

Norway's Sbanken has opened a developer portal through which customers can use a host of open APIs to build their own digital banking platforms, with the best efforts winning cash prizes.

19 January 2018

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Europe begins Open Banking era in subdued style

The EU's second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) took effect on Saturday 13 January, bringing with it the start of Open Banking, however the prospect of a sudden revolution is likely to be thwarted by unresolved technical and regulatory issues and a lukewarm reception from consumers.

15 January 2018

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Exchanges call for global fintech standards

As new technologies such as AI and DLT transform the capital markets landscape, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has called on regulators to hold new fintech entrants to the same standards as established players.

11 January 2018