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News/people
Global insurance broker Marsh has aappointed Tamara Simpkins Franklin as chief digital, data, and analytics officer.
24 September 2020
News/crime
Employees working in the financial services sector are 30% less trustworthy than colleagues in other sectors.
23 September 2020
The executive charged with managing ANZ's digital transformation project is to leave the bank in October while the specialist 'agile' teams will be folded into the bank's general technology unit.
18 September 2020
News/wholesale
Swiss bank Credit Suisse has announced a "series of structural improvements" which will see it combine several divisions in search of operational efficiencies.
30 July 2020
UK bank Standard Chartered (StanChar) is reportedly set to commence a new round of job cuts after posting a 33% drop in profits for the first half of the year
PayPal's former finance director has been hired by UK-based card and mobile app provider Curve to act as its first chief financial officer (CFO).
28 July 2020
Australian bank Westpac has appointed former ANZ technology chief Scott Collary to lead the consolidation of its technology and operations division.
News/retail
Standard Chartered has devised an online learning programme for 300 interns who will work remotely across the bank's business and support functions.
25 June 2020
A former chief information officer and managing director at Credit Suisse, Jason Shane, has been recruited by rival Swiss bank UBS to become its head of technology for internal audit, compliance, regulatory and governance.
05 June 2020
News/crypto
Swiss crypto bank Seba has sought to address the potential skills gap in emerging technology by launching a blockchain-themed university education course.
News/regulation
Francesca Hopwood Road, head of regtech at the FCA drilled down on how the hiring process structurally worked against the employment of females in regtech during the Regtech Women’s event ‘Cracking Communications: Be effective, be confident, be compliant’.
12 March 2020
News/inclusion
In conversation with Finextra Research, Donna Parisi, head of finance and fintech at Shearman & Sterling and Michelle Tran, founder of NYC FinTech Women, discuss the persistent gender disparity within fintech and how women can and should be encouraged to make their mark.
09 March 2020
News/Human resources
Notching up eye-watering numbers of APIs is not a valuable metric for success. A creeping, deep-rooted growth strategy is vital for successful expansion in Open Banking says Rune Mai, CEO and co-founder of Nordic API Gateway.
26 February 2020
Barclays Bank has scrapped a personnel monitoring system that chided staff for taking time out from their desks, after suffering a rash of complaints from employees and privacy groups.
21 February 2020
Barclays Bank is facing a backlash from employees after installing productivity spyware on staff computers that admonishes individuals if they're not deemed to be working hard enough.
20 February 2020
News/sustainable
BBVA is introducing a policy of digital disconnection for employees in Spain, encouraging them to put down their devices and take a break from the emails outside of working hours.
18 November 2019
SME payments outfit Modulr is to invest the best part of £20m in the Scottish fintech industry, in the process creating 53 new jobs and nurturing new technology talent.
30 October 2019
Singapore's United Overseas bank is to put all of its 26,000 employees through a 12-week learning and development programme designed to help them prepare for a digital future.
16 October 2019
More than 10,000 jobs could be lost at HSBC as the global bank embarks on a cost-cutting exercise, according to a report in the Financial Times (FT).
07 October 2019
News/Sibos
At Sibos 2019, business leaders from across the globe come together to discuss the future of financial services and how engaging and employing skilled individuals now goes beyond salary, security and stability.
26 September 2019
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