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News/crypto
A US-based trade association representing crypto firms has called for the dismissal of an insider trading case brought by the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) arguing that the regulator has unfairly labelled crypto assets as securities.
23 February 2023
News/payments
EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.
30 June 2021
News/cloud
While day one discussions centred around how open banking needs to reach a point where it is just accepted as a conventional way that consumers, corporates and banks can manage their accounts and make payments, panel sessions on the second day of EBAday 2020 focused on how the cloud and Payments as a Service (PaaS) can also act as an enabler for open banking, potentially cutting out rails that are currently acting as intermediaries.
25 November 2020
Open Banking’s success will be confirmed when it is longer talked about, according to Dan Globerson, head of open banking at NatWest.
24 November 2020
The cloud propels financial institutions (FIs) forward and provides the opportunity to scale in line with market demands such as volatility in the capital markets space, new regulations in banking and payments or increasing data assets in the insurance industry.
18 October 2019
News/Dis-intermediation
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
SETL, a blockchain-based settlement system for the investment funds industry, has gone live with its pan-European funds record keeping platform IZNES having successfully processed its first transactions.
11 January 2018
MasterCard and PayPal have engaged in a "constructive dialogue" about a possible strategic alliance, according to a report in the Financial Times.
29 July 2016
The founder of an Australian robo-advisor has accused the country's banks of hypocrisy over their cries of anti-competitive behaviour from Apple Pay
The president of one of the world's largest hedge funds has told an audience of fund managers that he looks forward to the day when they will all be replaced by computers.
09 June 2016
India's central bank is to set up a committee to explore the potential for the country's fintech market which is predicted to double in worth to $2.4bn in the next four years.
08 June 2016
Created as the premier event bringing both the most innovative minds in banking together with the exploding FinTech community, Finextra Future Money returns to London on April 21 and 22 for an exciting two day event.
16 February 2015
Funding Circle, an online marketplace for business loans, has hired Barclays Business commercial director Luke Jooste to head up its move into the property finance arena.
18 November 2013
Telekom Austria is to extend its established paybox NFC scheme for parking and transit payments to the merchant point-of-sale.
18 April 2012
UK currency conversion start-up TransferWise, billed as a 'skype for currency exchange", has raised $1.3 million in seed funding from an A-list team of angel investors.
The introduction of a common global language for financial counterparties and products could ultimately lower barriers to market entry and make some bank functions surplus to requirements, a senior Bank of England policy maker says.
15 March 2012
Financial heavyweight Citi has faced off a challenge to old-bank hegemony with a powerful display of its technological prowess that knocked the wind out of a room-full of Bank 2.0 innovation gurus and digital evangelists at an Innotribe session at Sibos in Toronto.
22 September 2011
UK wireless carrier O2 has contracted with Wave Crest, FIS, Intelligent Environments and Visa Europe to deliver the payments and processing systems for the launch of a full-scale commercial mobile wallet service in the 'second half of 2011'.
19 May 2011
Funding Circle, the UK peer-to-peer lending site for small businesses, has raised £2.5 million in a funding round led by Index Ventures.
21 April 2011
PayPal is looking to extend its remit to the offline bricks and mortar world, with the appointment of Don Kingsborough as vice president for retail and pre-paid products
10 March 2011
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