Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Q&A: World Economic Forum’s Ashley Lannquist

Ashley Lannquist, project lead, blockchain & distributed ledger technology at World Economic Forum, will be taking to the stage at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam to discuss the industry consortia for blockchain innovation on Tuesday this week. Ahead of the session, Finextra spoke to Lannquist about any use cases that have been beneficial for the financial services, the WEF’s work with the technology and how to take an inclusive approach.

03 June 2019

News/ai

OCBC launches postgraduate AI scholarship

Singapore's OCBC Bank has teamed up with two local universities to launch a postgraduate artificial intelligence scholarship.

03 June 2019

News/Innovation

China and India lead global fintech services adoption

Fintech is mainstream, according to a global survey from EY which finds that financial technology services are used by the majority of people in India, China and the UK, although are considerably less popular in the US, France and Japan.

03 June 2019

News/devops

FusionONE Hackathon: Interview with winner Scott Hiett

Finextra spoke to the 15-year-old Marling School student Scott Hiett after his victory at Finastra’s FusionONE Hackathon, beating other developers double his age with his winning product Hyber, an AI-based foreign exchange app that allows users to grow holiday money ahead of their trip.

03 June 2019

News/inclusion

RBS to host Edinburgh financial inclusion hackathon

Royal Bank of Scotland is joining forces with Innovate Finance and Founders of the Future to run a 48-hour hackathon in Edinburgh focused on technology that helps bank the unbanked.

31 May 2019

News/Innovation

CIBC, NAB and Bank Leumi open portal for fintechs to make pitches

Canada's CIBC, Israel's Bank Leumi and National Australia Bank have launched a joint global online portal from where fintech firms can submit them proposals.

31 May 2019

News/Innovation

UWE Bristol launches fintech masters course

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is launching a fintech masters degree in September, prepping students for the regulatory, ethical and programming challenges likely to arise around new disruptive technologies in finance.

30 May 2019

News/Innovation

Will you be able to make trades directly from your mind in 2069?

What will trading technology look like in 50 years? Trades powered directly by thoughts, hardware that inhibits the influence of negative emotions, and mobile-phone based 3D trading rooms could all be in our future, predicts a report.

30 May 2019

News/Innovation

Innovation driving digital acceleration in Latin America

Swift's Latin American Regional Conference (LARC) explored how banks in the region are looking to increase digitisation, while managing cyber and compliance challenges.

29 May 2019

News/devops

SEB tests mob programming

Sweden's SEB has begun experimenting with mob programming - putting an entire team of developers at the same computer at the same time to work on the same thing.

29 May 2019

News/startups

BBVA invites fintech startups to compete for $100,000 investment prize

Applications are now open for BBVA's Open Talent startup competition, with the overall winner scooping a $100,000 investment from the Spanish bank's Venture Creation Partnership with Anthemis.

24 May 2019

News/Innovation

Facebook to launch cryptocurrency in 2020

Facebook is finalising a digital payments system called ‘GlobalCoin’, which is expected to be available across 12 countries by the start of 2020.

24 May 2019

News/Innovation

EBAday 2019 to set the agenda for European payments industry

A host of board directors, chief financial officers and payments and technology heads from Europe's leading banks have confirmed their participation in the conference programme for the fourteenth annual EBAday, taking place this year in Stockholm between the 18th and 19th June.

24 May 2019

News/devops

HSBC opens London and Toronto data and innovation labs

HSBC has opened two data and innovation labs - in London and Toronto - that will house specialists in areas such as analytics and robotics working on products and services for the bank's global banking and markets (GBM) unit.

23 May 2019

News/Innovation

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day two

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.

22 May 2019

News/Innovation

Indian securities body proposes innovation sandbox

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has published a framework for an innovation sandbox which would enable non-regulated firms to tap market data feeds to test new product ideas.

22 May 2019

News/Innovation

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day one

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.

21 May 2019

News/Innovation

One in ten European banks to disappear over the next five years

A.T. Kearney is predicting the demise of one in ten European banks over the next five years as more agile digital challengers embrace the changes wrought by Open Banking to increase their market reach.

21 May 2019

News/Innovation

"AI is the new electricity" - TSB's Janet Adams frames the debate at Finextra conference

Finextra welcomed over 200 attendees to NextGen Banking London, the one-day event that focused on how developments in AI have become a business-critical consideration for traditional banks.

20 May 2019

News/Innovation

Internal innovators at SocGen incubate thirty startups

Societe Generale is to support the development of up to 30 startups that have emerged from an internal intrapreneurship programme that kicked off in 2017.

20 May 2019