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Ireland's state-owned economic development agency Enterprise Ireland has announced the launch of a €750,000 Competitive Start Fund for promising fintech startups.
12 June 2018
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.
Not content with being Europe's leading fintech hub, London is also staking a claim to the role of the EU's Artificial Intelligence (AI) capital, home to double the number of AI companies than closest rivals Paris and Berlin combined
11 June 2018
Northern Trust, one of the few financial firms in the world to have a implemented a live distributed ledger application, has applied for two new blockchain-related patents in digital identity and meeting management.
08 June 2018
ABN Amro has taken a novel approach to recruiting fresh talent, creating a fictional future in a mobile gaming app and challenging prospects to use their tech skills to prevent a financial meltdown.
07 June 2018
Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2018, in Miami. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can seize the opportunities that are emerging.
06 June 2018
Belgian bank KBC is borrowing from the gaming world for its latest pilot, creating a 3D virtual space where customers can move through a game-like environment on their PC, carrying out various tasks in different dedicated zones.
05 June 2018
Commerzbank has developed a prototype for a new 'pay-per-use' loan for capital equipment which taps into the Internet of Things to adjust repayment terms according to the actual usage of the machinery on which the loan was taken out.
The European Fintech Alliance (EFA) has accused the EC of failing to give startups a voice in a new expert group on regulating fintech innovation, instead packing the body with traditional financial institutions.
Ripple is promising to pump $50 million into a blockchain research initiative with a host of top universities from around the world.
04 June 2018
Finextra and the Euro Banking Association have announced the first nine early stage startups selected to exhibit their products and ideas to banking heads from across Europe at the EBA's flagship payments and transaction conference EBAday2018.
Car maker Hyundai is working on an in-vehicle credit card payment service that enables drivers to find and pay for coffee, gas and parking from their "infotainment" screen.
30 May 2018
The times, they are a changing. With fewer people carrying cash, a British university student has developed a system that lets buskers accept contactless payments.
25 May 2018
ING has opened its internal developer portal to coders from corporate clients and fintech startups, providing access to simulated APIs for testing and developing new products.
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 thirteenth annual EBAday, taking place this year in Munich between the 12th and 13th June.
Amid massive jobs cuts in its investment banking business, Deutsche Bank is prepping a "surprise" new banking platform targeting 12 million millenials.
24 May 2018
The deployment of blockchain technology to streamline foreign exchange post-trade confirmation and matching has moved a step closer with the replication of an FX forward trade conducted by Commerzbank on behalf of thyssenkrupp across R3 Corda.
It's the second day of Temenos' annual conference on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin. Stay tuned for more on the latest in banking transformation and digital disruption, not to mention the Innovation Jam final.
Singapore's OCBC Bank is to offer merchants a fingerprint-based point of sale device capable of handling multiple payment form factors and loyalty schemes.
23 May 2018
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