Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

Standardisation key for instant payments

Paul Walvik-Joynt, Engagement Director, Nets, talks about how to balance interoperability with innovation around instant payments, the value of richer information, and the likely proliferation of services leveraging real-time.

10 November 2016

News/Innovation

PayPal sends cash with Siri

PayPal has integrated with Apple agent Siri to enable subscribers to use voice commands to transfer payments in 30 countries and in a variety of languages.

10 November 2016

News/Innovation

Denmark opens fintech hub

Denmark is about to open its very own Fintech hub, Copenhagen Fintech, a joint initiative by Financial Services Union Denmark, the City of Copenhagen and the Danish Bankers Association to spur innovation in the Nordic capital.

10 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Tackling digitalisation in bite-sized chunks

Paul Thomalla, Senior Vice President, Global Corporate Relations, ACI Worldwide, speaks about PSD2 as a forcing factor driving banks to digitalise and the challenges and opportunities of breaking an analogue business into pieces and reconstructing them for a digital world.

10 November 2016

News/Innovation

Banco do Brasil sets up shop in Silicon Valley

Banco do Brasil (BB) has opened a lab in Silicon Valley as it seeks to build connections with the American fintech scene.

10 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Blockchain use cases need validation

Balazs Fejes (FB), Co-Head Global Business, EPAM, talks about the progress blockchain has made from hype to reality in the past year, the need for a pragmatic approach to implementation and the importance of establishing whether blockchain is the right solution for all the use cases being created.

09 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Simplicity and transparency key to robo value

Silvan Schumacher, Co-founder and CEO, Swanest, discusses the drivers for the growth of robo advice, and looks at the options for robo advisers to differentiate their services in a crowded market.

09 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Connecting digital islands in trade finance

Michael Vrontamitis, Global Head of Trade, Product Management, Standard Chartered, talks about the industry’s slow progress in digitalising trade finance, and the technologies – including blockchain, cloud and artificial intelligence – that could form a toolbox to enable the seamless connectivity of today’s digital islands.

09 November 2016

News/Innovation

Bank Leumi prepares to launch mobile-only bank

Israel's Bank Leumi says it will open a mobile-only bank to the general public later this year.

09 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

Eight fintech startups demo at Accenture's Hong Kong investor day

A select group of leading-edge financial services technology (fintech) companies demonstrated their products and services to dozens of top bank, venture capital and technology executives today at the third annual FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific Investor Day.

09 November 2016

News/Innovation

Deutsche Bank runs hackathon to build autism app

Deutsche Bank is to run a 24-hour hackathon in tandem with autism charity Autistica to develop an app that will help people suffering from the disability deal with anxiety.

09 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Treasuries should be more transparent

Johan Trocmé, Head of Corporate Research, Nordea, outlines the use of KPIs in Nordic treasuries and what changes need to be made for them to become more visible.

09 November 2016

News/Innovation

R3 partners Singapore's MAS for blockchain lab

Distributed ledger technology consortium R3 has teamed up with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to open a centre of excellence on the island

09 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

Esma seeks financial innovation experts for stakeholder panel

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a call for candidates in order to renew the composition of its Consultative Working Group (CWG) which advises ESMA’s Financial Innovation Standing Committee (FISC).

08 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Payments have to be simple

Jan Pilbauer, Executive Director of Modernisation & CIO, Canadian Payments, talks about the progress of ISO 20022 for payments in Canada and the new roadmap for Canadian payments modernisation.

08 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Move to open banking is fundamental

Rob Hetherington, Global Head of Financial Services, SAP, outlines the innovative trends in transaction banking, and how new technologies such as blockchain have developed.

08 November 2016

News/Innovation

RegTech to the fore in second FCA TechSprint

The Financial Conduct Authority is preparing to run its second TechSprint event, a two-day app development challenge on the theme of 'unlocking regulatory compliance'.

08 November 2016

News/Innovation

Overstock invests in blockchain voting firm SettleMint

Online retailer Overstock is furthering its efforts to build a crypto-trading platform by taking a stake in Belgian blockchain startup SettleMint.

08 November 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Pan-European instant payment project well on track

Hays Littlejohn, CEO, EBA Clearing provides an update on the delivery of this new real-time payment infrastructure.

08 November 2016

Company update/Innovation

Fintech poses little threat to Australian big four; social media bows to SEO spend

Key operators in financial services are confident financial technology is a positive for the industry and over two-thirds believe fintech start-ups pose little threat to established players, a new survey by specialist financial services marketing agency Yell Creative reveals.

08 November 2016