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News/startups
Egypt's Commercial International Bank (CIB) is launching the country's first venture capital arm to focus squarely on investment in fintech startups.
19 December 2018
News/Innovation
The European Banking Authority has warned of the dangers to UK payment institutions in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
17 December 2018
LiquidShare, a blockchain-based post-trade settlement infrastructure for shares in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), has entered into a pilot phase with 15 market participants trading over Euronext.
Spanish banks have warned of the potential financial stability implications of Big Tech firms like Goolge, Amazon and Facebook entering the financial services industry.
10 December 2018
In an interview with Finextra, Tandem Bank’s chief operating officer Nick Bennett revealed that the more data protection is regulated, the slower attitudes towards privacy will change.
07 December 2018
India's Icici has overhauled it mobile banking app, introducing a host of features, including a robotics-based investment advice tool and voice-command fund transfers.
Russia's Sberbank has invited all of its 300,000 employees to take part in an inhouse accelerator programme with a promise to invest in the best ideas to emerge.
DBS Bank’s chief innovation officer Neal Cross has warned the audience at Fintech Connect 2018 that European banks are getting digitisation and open banking completely wrong by failing to adequately address customer pain points.
05 December 2018
News/ai
Citibank’s global head of bank research Ronit Ghose kicked off this year’s EMEA Media Summit by highlighting how artificial intelligence, Big Tech and core banking systems on the cloud will disrupt financial services.
Thought Machine, the core banking startup set up by a gaggle of former Google engineers, has inked a global implementation partnership deal with IBM, gaining a heavyweight partner in its efforts to win over big clients.
04 December 2018
US regulators have promised not to penalise banks that use artificial intelligence tools to spot gaps in existing anti-money laundering programmes, paving the way for the use of new technologies to tackle illicit financial activity.
Zopa has received a UK banking license, paving the way for the peer-to-peer lending pioneer to launch a brand-new suite of financial products built on proprietary technology.
Rabobank is partnering with Nxchange to provide small and medium sized business with access to a tradable bond platform for loan financing.
03 December 2018
Day 3 of the Swift Operations Forum Europe (SOFE) 2018 featured a look at how the new era of open banking will have a dramatic impact on the financial services market.
The Swiss government has amended its Banking Act to include new authorisation rules for fintechs in its latest bid to boost innovation in the sector.
30 November 2018
The European Central Bank has unveiled its response to the rise of digital wallets with the launch of Target Instant Payments Settlement (TIPS), a pan-eurozone instant payments system.
Commerzbank has set up an innovation lab in Dortmund to investigate the use of technologies such as DLT in trade finance.
News/regulation
Kuwait's central bank is launching a regulatory sandbox for startups, joining a crowded regional field jostling to become the Middle East's top fintech spot.
29 November 2018
Mastercard is joining forces with Polish corporate innovation centre The Heart to open a 'startup factory' that builds financial services-focussed tech firms.
News/Sibos
Innovation in financial services and the application of new technologies dominated conversation on day 1 of the Swift Operations Forum Europe (SOFE) 2018.
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