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The big story of 2020 will be financial inclusion

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The big story of 2020 will be financial inclusion

Lee Vecchione, Director, Cash Management Corporates Sales, Deutsche Bank, discusses how an increasingly positive regulatory environment and banks’ embracing of the sector are driving US fintech growth, the excitement for cash managers about the intersection of fintech segments payments and marketplaces, and how the fintech scene will look by 2020.

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Morgan Stanley latest to exit R3

Bank follows Goldman Sachs and Santander in leaving the blockchain consortium

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Italian AI-driven blockchain startup Euklid shifts HQ to London's Level39

Euklid plans to move its Headquarters to London. Despite being an Italian startup, the team selected London’s Level39 as their new center of operations to implement their international strategies.

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New platform brings digital banking to customers across Ireland

Payment Cloud Technologies launches new digital banking platform bank.VISION and says An Post is first live customer

Start-ups will help banks create the future

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Start-ups will help banks create the future

Andreas Lambropoulos, Head of Strategic Initiatives for BNP Paribas International Financial Services, talks about the bank’s evolving approach to working with fintech start-ups, his vision for partnership between banks and fintechs, and the need for any innovation initiative to create value for clients and for the bank.

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Consumers demand clarity and education on personal data usage

IEEE survey finds that 81% call for better education on data sharing; 65% cite a negative experience as a result of a website using their personal data

R3 shakeout continues as Santander bows out

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R3 shakeout continues as Santander bows out

More departures expected as inevitable streamlining follows over-heating of blockchain consortia space.

Next wave of robo will be active

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Next wave of robo will be active

Jonathan Charley, Deputy General Manager, FS EMEA, SAP, talks about the drivers for the rise of robo advisors, how these businesses are likely to evolve, and how traditional wealth providers should be responding.

Fintech solving fundamental problem

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Fintech solving fundamental problem

Vikas Raj, Managing Director, Venture Lab, Accion, discusses innovations in emerging markets around the use of alternative and new data for credit scoring, and explores the role of fintechs in solving the ‘information asymmetry’ problem that leaves some 3 billion individuals and small businesses around the world without the financial services they need, by giving incumbent banks the data and infrastructure to serve these segments better.

Goldman Sachs leaves R3

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Goldman Sachs leaves R3

Goldman Sachs has left the R3 distributed ledger technology consortium it helped to found two years ago, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Fintech influence on banks good for all of us

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Fintech influence on banks good for all of us

Steve Pierson, President of Lovell Minnick Partners, gives an investor’s view of fintech, talking about why advice, insurtech and outsourcing are hotter investment prospects than blockchain right now, the likely evolution of digital lending beyond consumer and how banks are set to learn from – and acquire – fintechs going forward.

Norton Rose Fulbright addresses the legal implications of smart contracts

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Norton Rose Fulbright addresses the legal implications of smart contracts

Blockchain consortium R3 has contracted global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright to determine whether smart contracts have contractual effect and their enforceability.

Building real-time business case for smaller banks

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Building real-time business case for smaller banks

Leo Lipis, Managing Director of Lipis Advisors and Tom Hay, Head of Payments at Icon Solutions, discuss the findings of recent research into the challenges and opportunities for small and medium sized banks of connecting to instant payment systems, and explore options for smaller players to achieve their real-time goals via more cost-effective routes.

Data science is next phase of digital journey

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Data science is next phase of digital journey

Mayank Mishra, Managing Director, Global Head Online Banking & Connectivity Services, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi, talks about how banks are progressing with digitalisation, from the first phase of mobile channels through to the next which will leverage data science to improve customer experience and drive new efficiencies, and looks at the likely evolution of banks’ role in innovation.

ABN Amro applies blockchain tech to the logistics sector

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ABN Amro applies blockchain tech to the logistics sector

ABN Amro is working with Dutch university TU Delft and a host of other partners to test the use of blockchain technology in the logistics sector.

Measuring the value of innovation

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Measuring the value of innovation

Tim Bosco, Head of Innovation Strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, talks about the challenges of measuring the return on investment of innovation initiatives by banks, and what banks can learn from start-ups when it comes to successful innovation.

Calculating the downside - and upside - of PSD2

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Calculating the downside - and upside - of PSD2

Petri Syvänne, Head of Accenture Payment Services Nordic, talks about recent progress with PSD2, puts some numbers on the likely revenue losses and gains for Nordic banks as a result of the change and outlines some of the strategic options banks can consider to respond to the new regulation.

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Fluent rebrands as Hijro, announces Blockchain Trade Asset Marketplace

Fintech company Fluent, the financial operating network for global trade, rebrands as Hijro [/ˈhīdrō/] and announces the Hijro Trade Asset Marketplace built on distributed ledger or blockchain technology.

Embrace APIs and avoid data warehouse future

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Embrace APIs and avoid data warehouse future

Mikko Pilkama, VP, Banking Services at CGI, discusses the findings of recent research into areas in which consumers and corporates are dissatisfied with banks, and talks about how banks can leverage the opportunity of open banking to better meet their customers' needs and fend off the threat of losing customer relationships to new entrants.

Bringing IoT and payments together

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Bringing IoT and payments together

Paul Thomalla, Senior Vice President Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, discusses the need to link payments more closely to the evolving Internet of Things, especially in the area of connected cars, and the potential for banks to play a leading role in the next wave of IoT-led transformation.

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