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FinTech Wales completes first foundry accelerator programme

The inaugural FinTech Wales Foundry accelerator, created in partnership with Admiral Pioneer, Principality Building Society and Cardiff Capital Region, has now completed its 2021 programme.

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Copper.co joins Imperial College Business School’s Institutional Digital Assets Project

Copper.co, leading provider of digital asset custody and trading solutions, today announced that it is partnering with Imperial College Business School on a new Institutional Digital Assets Project, within Imperial’s Centre for Digital Transformation.

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Prospa raises $3.8m pre-seed to offer software to Nigerian micro-businesses

Prospa, a YC-backed Nigerian startup offering software and financial services to entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, today announced it closed a $3.8 million pre-seed investment, which was oversubscribed by 380%. The round was backed by venture funds Global Founders Capital and Liquid 2 Ventures. Leading entrepreneurs also participated in the round including Mercury’s Immad Akhund, Ramp’s Karim Atiyeh, Teachable’s Ankur Nagpal, Todd Goldberg and Rahul Vohra’s angel investment fund, and executives from Square, Facebook and Nubank. This investment is the largest pre-seed round for a Nigerian fintech.

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Barclays Eagle Labs launches second dedicated startup accelerator for black founders

Barclays Eagle Labs is launching its second 12-week virtual accelerator programme, designed to help early-stage tech businesses founded by one or more black entrepreneurs, in order to continue to help boost diversity in entrepreneurship.

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FCA opens applications for Digital Sandbox's sustainability cohort

Building on the success of the Sandbox's first pilot, the FCA and The City of London Corporation, supported by Innovate Finance, are running a second phase of the Digital Sandbox to support the testing and development of new products and services that will aid the transition to a net zero economy.

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Standard Chartered Women in Tech Bahrain Programme winners revealed

The SC Women In Tech Bahrain Program announces the 5 winning teams receiving $10,000 each and 3 months of incubation at Bahrain FinTech Bay, one of MENA’s leading FinTech Hub. The winners will be able to further develop their startups, scale up, and venture into new markets. The program is an initiative by Standard Chartered Bank in partnership with the Supreme Council for Women (SCW), and Bahrain FinTech Bay (BFB).

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GFT opens regional innovation hub in Manchester

With the pandemic triggering a significant increase in tech investment across the country, demand is growing for cloud, application development and data specialists.

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Arie Finance appoints Grunwald as group director of strategy

ARIE Finance, the bespoke digital and service-based financial ecosystem for business banking customers, has announced the appointment of David Grunwald as Group Director of Strategy. David will be responsible for corporate and investment strategy at ARIE Ventures and will also oversee the development of ARIE Finance’s marketplace banking services, strategic partnerships and the creation of ARIE Lab, an incubator for financial technologies that will serve the ARIE platform.

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Contour opens trade finance innovation lab in Singapore

Contour has opened an innovation lab In Singapore where it will collaborate closely with its growing network of banks, corporates and ecosystem partners to research and develop novel, digitally native trade finance solutions.

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Carrousel Digital seeks partner for offline payment system

Carrousel Digital, the London-based financial boutique, and its partner, Paris-based Marbeuf Conseil et Recherche, the digital security designer, announce the launch of Moneytak, a system that enables the transmission of funds and/or documents between two electronic objects without requiring connection to a server at the time of the transaction.

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FinTech Scotland draws ten-year innovation roadmap

FinTech Scotland is developing a ten-year business-led research and innovation roadmap which will support the growth of Scotland’s digital economy and development of fintech innovation across the UK.

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F10 Switzerland opens applications for sustainable finance and SME services accelerator

F10 Switzerland officially graduates its second acceleration batch during an online startup showcase with high-profile attendees from the investor and corporate space and opens applications for its third accelerator focused on sustainable finance and SME services.

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SmartStream doubles footprint of innovation lab

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider today announce the expansion of its Innovation Lab, with the recent opening of its new workspace in Mariahilfer Strasse in Vienna, Austria.

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VTB and Gazprom Neft launch blockchain-enabled payments

VTB Bank has implemented a new method of making online payments by connecting to the blockchain platform, Smart Fuel, provided by Gazpromneft-Aero (operator of Gazprom Neft’s aviation refuelling business).

/cloud

Banks to up spending on next generation technologies

Over half of financial services firms worldwide plan to increase their spending over the next two years on next-generation technologies such as AI, blockchain, the Cloud and digital, according to a new study surveying 1,000 global C-suite executives and their direct reports, released today by Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader.

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Bank of America files record number of patents

Bank of America inventors filed 722 patent applications with the United States Patent Office last year, the most in the company’s history.

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Finastra names Hack to the Future winners

Finastra has named the winners of its annual hackathon: Hack to the Future.

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Aviva appoints chief innovation officer, forms fintech investment partnership with Anthemis

Aviva, the UK’s leading insurer, today announces the appointment of Ben Luckett as Chief Innovation Officer.

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Credit Suisse names Disruptive Technology Recognition winners

Credit Suisse today named five winners of its 2021 Disruptive Technology Recognition (DTR) Program, an annual program that highlights some of the best disruptors of traditional enterprise information technology.

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Central Bank of Oman opens fintech regulatory sandbox

The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) has launched will launch the Fintech Regulatory Sandbox (FRS) initiative on Thursday December 10th, 2020, through which participants can apply to live test their innovative Fintech solutions, that are enabled by new technologies, in a safe environment under the supervision of the CBO.

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