Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

Blenheim Chalcot collaborates with Imperial College London to build new tech and innovation centre

Imperial College London and digital venture builder Blenheim Chalcot have announced a joint venture to build “Scale Space”, a 200,000 sq ft development at White City.

01 February 2018

Company update/Innovation

Communications compliance outfit Solgari partners with Hong Kong accelerator TenX2

Solgari, the global provider of compliant, integrated omni-channel cloud communications services and TenX2, the business accelerator for high growth technology companies today announced a global partnership focused on delivering Solgari cloud services into partner channels focused on the financial services, retail, eCommerce & telcos.

01 February 2018

News/Innovation

UK government invites applications for trade mission to New York FinTech Week

The UK government is calling on local fintech firms to join a trade mission to New York Fintech Week in April.

01 February 2018

Company update/Innovation

Australia's Bankwest launches Halo payments ring

Bankwest customers across Australia are now able to tap and go using the Bankwest Halo, Australia’s first payment ring.

31 January 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Blockchain: beyond Bitcoin

Nicolò Romani, Head of Innovation SIA, talks about the extraordinary variety of business applications a permissioned blockchain infrastructure could lend itself to, the impact it will have in the financial sector and whether it represents a revolution at global level.

31 January 2018

News/Innovation

Macquarie leads Australian move to Open Banking model with first live deployment

Macquarie Bank is getting a head start on the Australian Government's push for Open Banking by sharing customer data feeds with Zip's personal financial management app Pocketbook.

31 January 2018

News/Innovation

Rabobank sets up EUR60 million tech venture fund

Rabobank has launched a EUR60 million venture fund to invest in early-stage fintech and food and agri companies.

31 January 2018

News/Innovation

Augmentum Capital seeks public listing for £125 million fintech fund

Venture group Augmentum Capital is to apply for a public listing to raise up to £125 million for a new fund investing in early-stage fintech companies in the UK and wider Europe.

31 January 2018

News/Innovation

South African central bank sets up full-time fintech unit

South Africa's Reserve Bank has established a three-man fintech unit to monitor the impact of new technology developments on deposit taking, payments, lending, insurance, and investments.

30 January 2018

Company update/Innovation

Santander to host hackathon: Building Banking Your Way

From today, the registration for Santander’s hackathon: Building Banking Your Way, is open for applicants.

30 January 2018

Company update/Innovation

Standard Chartered and SuperCharger select ten startups for accelerator programme

Standard Chartered and SuperCharger, Asia’s leading Fintech accelerator based in Hong Kong and Malaysia, revealed 10 companies to join its third programme in Hong Kong at the Fintech Finals 2018.

30 January 2018

Company update/Innovation

Santander InnoVentures, appoints Mario Aransay as partner

Santander InnoVentures today announces that Mario Aransay has been made partner of the $200M corporate venture fund of Santander Group, having spent a successful two years as head of Portfolio Partnerships.

29 January 2018

News/Innovation

Emirates NBD appoints new CIO and chief digital officer

Emirates NBD has appointed a new CIO to spearhead the bank's planned AED1 billion digital transformation effort and established a 'Digital Office' led by a freshly-minted chief digital officer.

29 January 2018

News/Innovation

Deutsche Bank joins WEF centre to help shape the robot future

As the great and the good gather in Davos, Deutsche Bank has joined the World Economic Forum's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a project dedicated to "maximising the benefits and minimising the risks" of emerging technology.

26 January 2018

Company update/Innovation

Banks and fintechs consider themselves partners in disruption

A new survey(1) launched today by ING Bank and Illuminate Financial(2) has found that fintechs and banks believe they are partners in disrupting the financial services market.

25 January 2018

Company update/Innovation

Tradeshift launches innovation lab and incubator

Tradeshift, the world’s largest business commerce platform, today announced the official launch of Tradeshift Frontiers.

25 January 2018

News/Innovation

Danske Bank makes open banking push

Danske Bank is embracing the open banking era, revamping its mobile app to let Nordic customers view data from their accounts with other providers.

24 January 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Building a culture of compliance

Abhishek Shukla, Global Head of Compliance Learning, Thomson Reuters, talks about the importance of ‘building a culture of compliance’ and the efforts organisations are taking to promote this within their businesses. Abhishek discusses how organizations are being challenged to comply with growing regulatory demands and what new technology solutions compliance teams are incorporating into their programmes to meet these demands.

23 January 2018

News/Innovation

Motive Partners forms fintech coalition with leading banks

Fintech investment vehicle Motive Partners has secured the backing of four leading banks and Mastercard as founding partners for a new membership-only innovation and investment organistion, 'Motive Labs'.

22 January 2018

Company update/Innovation

Raiffeisen joins Swiss accelerator F10

As the dust of the new year’s festivities settles, F10, Switzerland’s most prestigious startup accelerator and incubator in the FinTech industry, announced that Raiffeisen was the newest corporate partner to join its ranks.

22 January 2018