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The Central Bank of Brazil has opened an innovation laboratory for creating new financial applications with the support of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and IBM.
23 May 2018
A UK payments industry trade body is calling on the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE) to force banks to do more to enable access for fintech firms.
22 May 2018
Marc O'Brien, former CEO of Visa UK and a key advisor of Revolut, has been appointed chief executive officer of mobile crypto bank Crypterium.
Digital banking transformation programmes are creating a new wave of operational and systemic risks for which the industry is ill-prepared, warns UK Finance.
21 May 2018
Japanese banks MUFG and Mizuho are to join a new IBM Q Hub at Keio University to experiment with future applications for quantum computing in the financial sector.
18 May 2018
Wales and Northern Ireland are getting their own financial technology envoys as part of a government effort to ensure that the UK maintains its position, post-Brexit, as Europe's top fintech dog.
17 May 2018
Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of NextGen Banking London. The event promises to explore what the AI revolution means for banks - and what financial institutions need to do to benefit from AI, and ensure their customers do so as well.
PayPal is extending its Singapore fintech incubator programme to other parts of Southeast Asia after getting financial backing from Indonesian VC firm Alpha JWC Ventures.
Fidelity Investments has created a virtual reality financial advisor to answer client queries using a suite of tools from Amazon Web Services.
16 May 2018
Josh Reich, the man who kicked off the 'neo-bank' craze nearly a decade ago, is finally leaving Simple for the simple life on a farm in Oregon.
15 May 2018
Deutsche Bank has acquired Mumbai-based startup Quantiguous Solutions to help build an Open Banking platform connecting corporate clients to third party partners and its global transaction banking franchise.
Former JPMorgan blockchain leads Amber Baldet and Patrick Nielsen have launched a new blockchain company, Clovyr, with the aim of creating a hybrid environment for sharing and playing around with enterprise-grade application development tools and datasets
Ripple is looking to build up an ecosystem around its native digital asset through the launch an initiative called Xpring, which will invest in, incubate, acquire and provide grants to startups using XRP and the XRP Ledger.
14 May 2018
HSBC and ING bank have announced the successful execution of a trade finance transaction using R3's Corda blockchain platform.
The prospect of applying blockchain technology to the proxy voting process has become more likely after Broadridge, one of the biggest providers of investor-related services, was awarded a patent for this very purpose.
11 May 2018
International securities regulators are to establish a 'Fintech Network' to share information and knowledge on emerging technologies and risks to the financial system.
The Australian Government has pushed back against attempts by the country's top banks to stall the introduction of Open Banking reforms, setting a one-year timetable for the move to data sharing with third party providers.
10 May 2018
A newly-appointed SEC commissioner has taken a swipe at the global trend for establishing fintech sandboxes, arguing that they place regulators and the regulated too close together, and instead calling for a more hands off, beach lifeguard-style approach to oversight.
08 May 2018
Singapore's OCBC Bank is to spend $20 million on a workforce digital transformation programme designed to equip its 29,000 staff with the skills required to stay relevant in a technologically-driven banking culture.
A host of big-name VCs, including Bain Capital Ventures and Nyca Partners, are backing a new holding company planning to build up a stable of innovative payment firms.
04 May 2018
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