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Lloyds Banking Group has hired UX design guru Dan Makoski to fill a newly-created role as chief design officer.
04 July 2018
As they seek to steer a course through the new fintech environment, financial services firms must beware the risks to their business models of both being too passive and too gung-ho in their embrace of new technologies, says a European Banking Authority report.
03 July 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority's regulatory sandbox continues to gather momentum, with 29 firms - including some working with crypto-assets - getting the go-ahead to join the initiative's fourth cohort.
The Government of Bermuda is to amend the Banking Act to create a new class of bank specifically to cater to local fintech and blockchain companies.
Big tech company Oracle is to locate a new 'Fintech Innovation Programme' in Belgium, teaming up with local startup supporter B-Hive.
02 July 2018
UK building society Nationwide has joined the fintech venture fund party, putting aside £50 million to invest in promising startups.
27 June 2018
The UK government has launched a new body for training prospective coders in order to address an increasing digital skills gap.
22 June 2018
A much anticipated report from the US Treasury on regulatory reforms for the fintech sector is set to recommend the use of regulatory sandboxes and fintech charters at both a state and federal level.
Canadian debit network Interac has opened an innovation outpost and accelerator at Communitech, a tech hub based in the city of Kitchener, Ontario.
20 June 2018
Welcome to Finextra's live coverage from the Linedata Exchange Europe 2018. The theme for this year's event centres around transformation and how digital, operational and industry-wide transformation can be leveraged to deliver growth.
19 June 2018
Swift's Latin American Regional Conference in Miami had a clear focus on how new market entrants and developing technologies are dramatically changing the financial landscape in the region.
18 June 2018
DBS is using an AI-based recruitment agent to pre-screen candidates for job interviews, reviewing CVs, firing off questions and conducting psychometric tests.
15 June 2018
Spanish bank BBVA has set a goal of converting 50% of its customers to mobile banking by 2019.
A lack of scalability and privacy issues are preventing banks from using distributed ledger technology (DLT) to process cross-border payments, says a senior executive at one of the most prominent startups in the DLT space.
14 June 2018
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is planning to spend $3.2bn on technology this year in a bid to attract new customers looking for more digital banking services.
Singapore's government has outlined plans to develop a governance programme around the use of artificial intelligence and personal data in its bid to become an international centre for new technology.
13 June 2018
The UK government has launched a series of initiatives designed to attract more foreign fintech experts to work for UK startups and to encourage those same startups to remain in the UK rather than uproot to an EU-based neighbouring jurisdiction.
Payments professionals from across Europe are gathering in Munich this week for EBAday 2018, hosted by the Euro Banking Association and Finextra. We're liveblogging events here.
US bank Citi has warned that it could shed half of its 20,000 tech and ops staff in the next five years due to the rise of robotics and automation.
12 June 2018
Europe's biggest bank HSBC is planning to invest between $15-$17bn in new technology as part of a new growth strategy announced by its chief executive John Flint.
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