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Money 20/20 Asia Q&A: Dave Birch on introducing a financial services passport

Dave Birch, global ambassador for Consult Hyperion, gives his thoughts on the idea of banks entering the digital identity space.

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Citi urges incumbents to grow their own challenger brands as new entrants shrink the market

Incumbent banks operating on ageing technology stacks are looking at a 30% revenue hit as new digital-first challengers enter the market, according to a report produced by Citibank.

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Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019 - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's coverage of the Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019, live from Copenhagen. This event has a focus on accelerating digital transformation, and will look at how the financial community in the region is harnessing technological change to deliver a digital customer experience.

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New York Fed launches fintech advisory group

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has set up a fintech advisory group, bringing together expertise from the worlds of financial services, technology, academia and non-profits.

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Standard Bank contracts with AWS for mass migration to the cloud

Standard Bank of South Africa is to adopt a cloud-first approach to its business, contracting with Amazon Web Services for a mass-migration of its IT architecture in a bid to drive its digital transformation strategy.

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BBVA rolls out global component library for design staff

BBVA has created a global platform for developers and user experience creatives to mix and match components for re-use in other applications.

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Emirates NBD to use sandbox as fintech certification platform

Emirates NBD is bidding to attract third party fintech firms to its API Sandbox environment by promising to arrange demo opportunities with senior leaders of the bank and a certification award to participating startups.

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Money 20/20 Asia Q&A: Barclays’ John Stecher on fintech/banking co-opetition

John Stecher, chief innovation officer at Barclays, joined industry leaders at Money 20/20 Asia in Singapore to discuss the relationship traditional banks have with fintech challengers and technology companies. Ahead of the panel session, Finextra spoke to Stecher about how the ongoing evolution from competition to co-opetition between fintech startups and incumbents, as new players realise that because of a range of different factors, it is difficult to replace incumbent banks.

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Banks of the future must maintain human touch

Technology has the potential to create seismic waves of change through banking that will alter consumer habits, but the industry will need to work hard to maintain trust and to ensure some customers are not left behind, says a report from UK bank CYBG.

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Australia unveils national blockchain strategy

The Australian government has launched a national blockchain plan which it hopes will bolster its fintech sector.

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Money 20/20 Asia: HSBC, Project Iceberg and strategic investment

On the main stage at Money 20/20 Asia in Singapore, Andy Maguire, group managing director and group chief operating officer at HSBC, gave the bank’s first public talk about the digital-only banking initiative referred to as Project Iceberg, after the leak earlier this year.

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Financial services Rising Stars to be profiled at EBAday 2019

Academics, university alumni and graduates from financial industry schemes will gather for the inaugural Rising Stars session at EBAday 2019, taking place this year in Stockholm between the 18th and 19th June.

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Money 20/20 Asia Q&A: ANZ’s Sreeram Iyer on institutional banking and innovation

Sreeram Iyer, COO of institutional banking at ANZ Banking Group, will be joining other financial services professionals at Money 20/20 Asia in Singapore to discuss the incumbents’ response to insurgents entering the legacy banking ecosystem. Ahead of the panel session, Finextra spoke to Sreeram about partnerships with old and new giants and how to deal with innovation while being threatened by Big Tech corporations.

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Money20/20 Asia: Banks struggling to keep up with fintech innovation

Money20/20 Asia saw representatives from Westpac, Deutsche Bank and LumenLab discuss how legacy infrastructure has started to crumble as new foundations are balanced on top of existing cloud-based technology stacks.

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Brexit brain drain hitting UK financial services industry

The Brexit brain drain is hampering UK financial services firms in the chase for highly sought-after tech talent, according to a report from TheCityUK and Odgers Berndtson and supported by Banco Santander.

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Standard Chartered builds Fintech Bridge to matchmake with startups

The innovation arm of Standard Chartered is building a 'fintech bridge' to connect startups to relevant business departments within the bank.

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Danske Bank joins Lighthouse fintech engagement programme

Denmark's Danske Bank is partnering with Mastercard and NFT Ventures on Nordic fintech engagement programme, Lighthouse.

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The platform ecology model: A deep dive

Eating the dust of Barclaycard’s partnership with Alipay, Finextra reports on the dominance of Ant Financial and Tencent in China and the emergence of the platform ecology business model in South East Asia, which will be dissected in detail at Money20/20 in Singapore this week.

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The challenger bank playbook: A deep dive

Finextra reports on the rise of the challenger bank economy in Asia, as Money20/20 prepares to open its doors to a new wave of disruptors and innovators in Singapore next week.

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AIB and Institute of Banking develop digital revolution resource

AIB has joined forces with the Irish Institute of Banking to launch a 'Digital banking Revolution' education programme.