Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

NatWest joins forces with RocketSpace UK to open a new technology campus

RocketSpace has chosen the UK as its first presence outside the US with a new campus that will be home to around 1,500 high-tech, high-growth companies.

07 June 2017

News/Innovation

Kasikorn Bank opens $30 million fintech war chest

Thailand's Kasikorn Bank has launched a $30 million fintech fund to invest in startups across South East Asia as well as Europe and China.

07 June 2017

Finextra TV/Innovation

Better engage customers or face utility future

Laurence Leyden, General Manager for Financial Services in EMEA, SAP, talks about the perils for banks of failing to engage customers, the need for better, more targeted customer profiling, and the technologies banks can deploy to achieve this.

07 June 2017

News/Innovation

SocGen extends fintech collaboration mission to Germany

Societe Generale is sending a dedicated team of staffers to collaborate with fintech startups in Germany through a partnership with Berlin-based innovation hub, Factory.

07 June 2017

News/Innovation

Australia's NAB and Westpac back data sharing startup Basiq

Australian open API startup Basiq has gained seed funding from Nab Ventures and Westpac-backed startup vehicle Reinventure as the country's banks prepare for a new era of client data sharing.

07 June 2017

News/Innovation

Social payments startup Plynk raises EUR25 million

A Dublin-based social payments outfit founded by former Facebook and Wonga staffers Charles Dowd and Clive Foley has raised €25 million in a Series A funding round led by private investment trust, Swiss Privée.

07 June 2017

Finextra TV/Innovation

UK poised to lead world in payments again

Becky Clements, Head of Industry Engagement and Payment Change, Metro Bank, explains why there has never been a more exciting time to work in payments, and discusses the potential of UK payments reform to drive benefits for banks, consumers and the economy.

07 June 2017

News/Innovation

FinTech50: London continues to dominate European scene

The Brexit cloud may loom large but, for now, the UK remains at the centre of Europe's financial technology scene, home to nearly two thirds of the firms that make it into this year's FinTech50.

07 June 2017

Finextra TV/Innovation

Real time data is differentiator under MiFID II

Thomas Kennedy, Group Head of Analytic Services, Thomson Reuters, talks about how MiFID II will impact transparency and drive innovation across asset classes.

06 June 2017

Company update/Innovation

Hong Kong and Shenzhen form fintech pact

Mr Norman Chan, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), visited the Office of Financial Development Service, the People’s Government of Shenzhen Municipality (OFDS) to keep abreast of the applications and latest developments of fintech in Shenzhen, and exchanged views on the co-operation among banks and financial institutions in the two cities.

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Innovation

Leveraging Ireland’s three Ls…

Alan Duffy, CEO, Ireland, HSBC, talks about the strengths of Ireland in terms of law, location and language, the opportunities – and challenges – created for the country by Brexit, and the power of technology and digital to be gamechangers over the coming years.

06 June 2017

News/Innovation

Vietnam's TPBank to roll out video bank branches

Vietnam's TPBank is to augment its branch network with the introduction of tech-oriented, small-scale video banking branches.

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Innovation

Banks should treat APIs as products

Jeremy Light, Managing Director, Accenture Payments, talks about the opportunities for banks under PSD2, and how the ability to execute will separate winners from losers.

06 June 2017

Company update/Innovation

Mobey Forum launches new workgroups on open banking, virtual currencies and m-commerce

Mobey Forum, the global industry association empowering banks and other financial institutions to lead in the future of digital financial services, today unveils three new workgroups, each focused on a critical aspect of the global digital financial services market.

06 June 2017

Finextra TV/Innovation

Turning mobile from a service to a sales channel

Lode Snykers, co-CEO, Spencr, discusses how banks can combine transactional and personal information to make relevant, real-time propositions to their customers.

05 June 2017

Finextra TV/Innovation

Brexit gives Dublin a chance to shine

Peter Vance, Head of Group Operations, Customer Services, AIB, looks forward to EBAday in Dublin, and discusses the strengths of Ireland as a financial – and technology – centre.

05 June 2017

News/Innovation

OCBC Bank rolls out HR app and chatbot for employees

OCBC Bank is putting HR in the pockets of its employees with a mobile app and chatbot integrated with the bank's human resources information system.

05 June 2017

News/Innovation

Indian banks to work with five Startupbootcamp Mumbai graduates

Five of the eleven startups graduating from Startupbootcamp's 2017 Indian accelerator programme have secured pilots with bank sponsors RBL and Icici.

02 June 2017

Company update/Innovation

HKSTP and HKEx launch Road to IPO Platform

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) today jointly announced the launch of their Road to IPO platform, a move that further strengthens Hong Kong as a technology investment hub.

02 June 2017

News/Innovation

Fifteen startups selected for EBAday Fintech Pavillion

Finextra and the Euro Banking Association have selected 15 of Europe's most promising startups to present their ideas to banking delegates attending EBAday 2017, the continent's leading payments and transaction banking event.

02 June 2017