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Fintech accelerators come in all shapes and sizes. Reetika Grewal, head of payments strategy and solutions at Silicon Valley Bank, charts the path taken by Commerce.Innovated, the SVB/MasterCard joint programme.
11 July 2016
NEC has embarked on trials of 'cashless payment services' using facial recognition technology to verify consumer identities at small shops located inside its head office building in Tokyo.
08 July 2016
The UK government is trialling the use of distributed ledger technology and a mobile app to help welfare claimants track what they are spending their benefit payments on.
After 16 months of deliberation, North Carolina has enacted a blockchain-friendly bill with the passing of the North Carolina Money Transmitter Act.
07 July 2016
Far from being an economic disaster, a British exit from Europe could be the best thing that's ever happened to UK fintech, says Michael Jackson, partner at Mangrove Capital and former COO at Skype.
06 July 2016
A group of Russian banks have banded together to create a national blockchain consortium to rival the international R3CEV collective.
Startupbootcamp is to run a combined fintech and cybersecurity accelerator programme in Amsterdam with the backing of Rabobank, ING, ABN Amro, SNS Bank, PwC, NN Group, Delta Lloyd and Athlon.
05 July 2016
London's fintech community is calling for the UK Government to deliver a 'Brexit Blueprint' that includes single market access and financial services passporting, as fears mount over a softening of venture capital financing and a talent drain for startups operating out of the capital.
The Dutch Central Bank is supporting the creation of a 'blockchain development campus' for banks to congregate and share knowledge on the the application of distributed ledger technology in the financial services arena.
04 July 2016
ING Bank says a six-year transition to DevOps and agile development methodologies is playing a critical part in the achievement of its 'Think Forward' digital transformation strategy.
BMW Financial Services is setting up an innovation lab and accelerator programme to find startups that can bring fresh perspectives to vehicle financing and insurance.
01 July 2016
Bitcoin does not as yet pose a threat to existing centralised payment networks, argues Citibank in a new research report, dismissing the digital currency as an interesting experiment with limited use cases for peer-to-peer transfers.
Nearly half of North American bank customers are open to ditching human expertise for automated, computer-generated advice and services, according to a survey from Accenture.
BBVA’s transformation process involves the creation of a "new corporate culture", says the Spanish bank in a deep-dive blog post explaining its adoption of novel ways of working based on agile methodologies
Eschewing the usual accelerator route, JPMorgan is setting up an 'in-residence' programme for fintech startups, inviting them to spend six months side-by-side with the banking giant working together on digital answers to the industry's most pressing questions.
30 June 2016
Credit Mutuel Arkea has completed a pilot of an operational permissioned blockchain network to verify customer bona fides in compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.
Nordea has established a new Group Digital Unit to oversee its wide-ranging tech transformation programme.
DBS Bank in Singapore is to become a test bed for the adoption of Microsoft's cloud-based productivity tool Office 365, in a line with efforts to create a ‘fintech-like’ workforce to help shape the future of banking.
28 June 2016
In a world where bank-fintech partnerships are the best hope for payment innovation, Matthaeus Sielecki, head of working capital advisory – financial technology, Deutsche Bank, explores what constitutes best practice for such alliances.
27 June 2016
Financial service firms and technology providers around the world will spend more than $1 billion this year as they race to bring distributed ledger tech to capital markets, claims Greenwich Associates.
24 June 2016
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