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Enterprise Ireland launches fintech fund

Ireland's state-owned economic development agency Enterprise Ireland has announced the launch of a €750,000 Competitive Start Fund for promising fintech startups.

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Live: EBAday2018, day one

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.

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London claims to be AI capital of Europe

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

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Northern Trust applies for blockchain patents

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.

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ABN Amro imagines a cashless dystopian future to attract new talent

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.

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Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day two

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.

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KBC turns to gaming world for new Virtual Space

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.

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Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day one

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.

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Commerzbank taps IoT data to adjust loan repayments for capital equipment

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.

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European Fintech Alliance hits out at new EC regulation expert group

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.

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Ripple promises $50m to universities for blockchain research

Ripple is promising to pump $50 million into a blockchain research initiative with a host of top universities from around the world.

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First nine startups selected for EBAday2018 Fintech Zone

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.

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Hyundai preps in-car payments

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.

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Student develops contactless tipping system for buskers

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.

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ING opens developer portal

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.

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European payments chiefs to gather in Munich for EBAday2018

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.

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Deutsche Bank swings the axe but promises new platform for millennials

Amid massive jobs cuts in its investment banking business, Deutsche Bank is prepping a "surprise" new banking platform targeting 12 million millenials.

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Commerzbank FX transaction has big implications for blockchain in post-trade

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.

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Live: Temenos Community Forum (TCF), Dublin, day two

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.

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OCBC Bank to push biometric POS to merchant customers

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.