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News/retail
As 2019 draws to a close, financial services commentators and vendors have made their customary end-of-year predictions for the 12 months ahead, with increased competition through supercharged PSD2 the principal driving force.
23 December 2019
News/Innovation
With 2019 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.
Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, Bankia, BBVA and CaixaBank have initiated a proof-of-concept test to deploy an interbank Smart Payments Platform that would enable the execution of payments in blockchain networks.
20 December 2019
Office take-up in central London surged last month, driven by the booming fintech sector.
The Federal Reserve Board is to open its doors to banks and startups in a series of 'fintech innovation office hours' throughout 2020.
19 December 2019
A European Commission (EC) Expert Group has called on regulators to respond to the changing nature of fintech by adapting the rule book and legal frameworks to encourage innovation and dampen emerging risks.
18 December 2019
Industry veteran Bill Pryor is understood to have left the investment bank to launch his own fintech company, Investics Data Services.
13 December 2019
Metro Bank has invited a select few business customers to trial its upcoming app-based receipt manager, created following a partnership with Canadian tech firm Sensibill.
11 December 2019
News/startups
German insurtech WeFox has closed $110 million of funding bringing its total for 2019 to $235 million and is planning the launch of a London tech hub next year.
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs is teaming up with Silicon Valley startup QC Ware to investigate the use of quantum algorithms in finance.
News/devops
India's YES Bank has launched an online marketplace where startups from a host of sectors can pitch tools integrated with the lender's APIs.
10 December 2019
With the tagline ‘Hungry? Face it’, Nets has launched a pilot programme testing facial recognition at a cafeteria in Denamrk.
09 December 2019
Andrea Melville, managing director of commercialisation and propositions, Global Transaction Banking at Lloyds Bank, provides some pointers on how banks and fintechs can build mutually beneficial partnerships.
06 December 2019
Leaders of banks need to look beyond banking in anticipation of disruption to their industry in the next decade, according to Deloitte.
05 December 2019
BBVA has added Intel to its roster of partnerships with top tech firms, following similar agreements with Cisco, Red Hat, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services and IBM.
More than one in five UK consumers, and one in three millennial Brits, say their primary banking relationship is with one of the host of challengers to have emerged over the last decade, according to a report from AT Kearney.
Canadian outfit Portag3 Ventures has closed a CAD$427 million (US$321 million) fund focused on early stage investments in the fintech sector.
04 December 2019
Former Barclays chief executive believes its the end of the banking world as we know it...and he feels fine.
02 December 2019
With the accelerating pace of transformation in financial services, day two of SOFE 2019 explored the direction of travel financial institutions should embark on in order to thrive in this new world.
29 November 2019
News/sustainable
As part of a strategic review of the ECB’s purpose, the bank’s president Christine Lagarde will underline action on climate change as a fundamental component of monetary policy.
28 November 2019
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