Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

RPA and robo should be part of automation strategy

Bob Graham, Global Solutions Head, Banking and Financial Services, VirtusaPolaris, speaks about how robotics and AI are being further adopted in the payments industry and what needs to happen to ensure this continues going forwards.

01 December 2016

Company update/Innovation

Barclays partners Creative England to boost fast-growing startups

Today we announce a new partnership with Barclays that will focus on boosting fast-growing, creative technology businesses.

01 December 2016

News/Innovation

Deutsche Börse partners Naga Group to build gaming marketplace

Deutsche Börse is to create a new marketplace for trading virtual gaming products in partnership with local fintech incubation vehicle Naga.

01 December 2016

Company update/Innovation

EFSE DF accelerates financial inclusion with fintech competition in Berlin

Tarfin has won EUR 15,000 sponsored by the EFSE DF and the distinction of becoming the first company to be dubbed champion of the Fincluders Startup Challenge, a competition featuring emerging fintech companies with products designed to reduce the ranks of the world’s 2.5 billion people with no access to banking services.

01 December 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

How can tech create a better user experience?

Heikki Härkönen, Head of Business Development, Business Innovation, Nordea, speaks about the mega trends in the payments industry and how technology will evolve this space.

01 December 2016

News/Innovation

Developing world fintech incubator showers cash on top performers

Digital Financial Services (DFS) Lab, a developing world-focused fintech incubator backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has handed over more than $400,000 to four startups that impressed during an intensive bootcamp.

01 December 2016

News/Innovation

Mobile-only bank Pepper goes interactive to win over millennials

Israel's Bank Leumi is hoping to win over millennials to its new mobile-only offshoot Pepper by teaming up with digital authoring platform Playbuzz to bring personalised, interactive content to its app.

01 December 2016

News/Innovation

Citi Ventures gets new boss

Citi has named Vanessa Colella chief innovation officer and CEO of its venture capital arm, replacing Debby Hopkins, who is retiring, according to Reuters.

30 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

80 startups battle it out at blockchain contest

Nearly 80 blockchain-focused startups from 29 different countries took part in the Graz-based Blockchain Startup Contest, with representatives from the top 20 entries invited to present their projects at a demo day held on Monday, November 28.

30 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

Ripple appoints CME man to grow XRP into a viable currency

Ripple is proud to announce another addition to our team: Miguel Vias, head of XRP markets.

30 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

DWC publishes open banking and API economy report

DWC has released a research paper exploring open banking and the API economy.

30 November 2016

News/Innovation

Bank CEOs fret about ROI as startups drive IT arms race

Bank of America chief Brian Moynihan says the arrival of real-time payments combined with advances by cherry-picking fintech startups threatens to derail long-held assumptions about bank ROI levels from technology spending.

30 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Digitalisation is about the business

Paul Thomalla, Senior Vice President Global Corporate Relations & Development, ACI Worldwide, outlines key aspects of the digitalisation discussion in the payments industry, where open APIs fit in, and how the banks are reacting to these changes.

30 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

SEI forms relationship with RegTech startup Suade

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) has announced today that its London office has entered into an arrangement with Suade Labs Limited, an innovative Regulatory Technology firm, which develops software to help banks with their compliance and regulatory requirements.

30 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

Stockholm gets physical fintech hub

A physical platform is being created for FinTech companies – a place where all parts of the Swedish FinTech ecosystem can communicate, collaborate and integrate.

30 November 2016

News/Innovation

BNP Paribas takes stake in accelerator graduate PayCar

BNP Paribas is participating in a EUR1.3 million funding round for PayCar, a fintech startup for purchasing second-hand cars that emerged from the French bank's accelerator and incubation unit L'Atelier.

30 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Blockchain needs business standards

Stephen Lindsay, Head of Standards at Swift, discusses how the industry can best approach the development of the business standards needed to ensure that blockchain developments don’t create islands of automation that cannot interoperate.

29 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

More consensus needed for faster payments

Sean Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Faster Payments Strategy Leader, Federal Reserve System, summarises the US faster payments landscape, and what needs to be done to create a united faster payments solution.

29 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

Startupbootcamp InsurTech identifies 23 promising startups

Startupbootcamp InsurTech, the leading accelerator focused on early-stage, insurance technology startups and corporate innovation, announces the top 23 globally diverse startups chosen to participate in its Selection Days.

29 November 2016

News/Innovation

UK Payments Strategy Forum sets out roadmap

Giving Brits greater control over how they manage their day-to-day finances and taking on fraud are at the centre of a new regulator-backed strategy that promises to make payments fit for the 21st century.

29 November 2016