Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

ABN Amro explores blockchain with Dutch university

ABN Amro is teaming up with Dutch university TU Delft to develop what it calls "more complex" blockchain applications that can deal with large amounts of data.

27 October 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Regional centres can nurture collaboration

Tim Newns, Chief Executive, MIDAS – Manchester’s Inward Investment Agency, talks about how UK cities such as Manchester are bringing together financial services firms and fintechs to deliver innovation into the banking business, and how the Northern Powerhouse vision could play out.

27 October 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Biometrics go mainstream for payments

Ajay Ballah, President, Enterprise Risk and Security, Mastercard, discusses the pitfalls of passwords, and why the ability to implement biometrics at scale holds the key to improving identity authentication for payments.

26 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

UK Government to stage fintech conference

Kicking off a renewed push to boost investment in Britain’s world leading FinTech sector, the Economic Secretary has unveiled plans to hold a new international FinTech conference in London next year.

26 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

Temenos debuts digital marketing modules

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the software specialist for banking and finance, today announces the launch of Digital Engagement, a set of modules within Temenos’ front-to back digital offering intelligent real-time customer marketing and engagement.

26 October 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Smoothing the corporate banking value chain

Laurence Leyden, General Manager for Financial Services in EMEA SAP, discusses how digitalisation can help banks shift their approach to corporate customers from selling product to delivering value-add, and what this means for banks’ core systems.

26 October 2016

News/Innovation

Pay by MasterCard direct from your dashboard

MasterCard is to come embedded as a payment option in an intelligent dashboard developed by IBM Watson for General Motors.

26 October 2016

News/Innovation

Not a prototype or POC; CobaltDL to deploy SETL ledger at live launch

Peer-to-peer FX trading startup Cobalt DL is to deploy OpenCSD, the permissioned ledger based platform from SETL to create a shared view of trade data for market participants.

26 October 2016

News/Innovation

Robo-advisors not ready to replace humans - Credit Suisse exec

A wave of new digital tools will complement, not replace, finacial advisors, according to senior Credit Suisse exec Marco Abele, who says it's not yet time to worry about the rise of the robo-advisors.

26 October 2016

News/Innovation

Ingenico tech lets online shoppers pay with contactless cards

Ingenico has developed technology that lets people make online payments by tapping a payment card against an NFC-enabled mobile phone.

26 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

US millennials choose security over the latest technology fads for instant mobile payments

VocaLink, the global payment partner to banks, corporates and governments, today launched “The Millennial Influence”, a report examining the payments behavior of millennials (i.e. those aged between 18-35) in the United States.

25 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

Smart Basket and Smart Lien win BNP Paribas blockchain hackathon

For 2 days, the Group hosted its first Bizhackathon platform for the Americas, the 7th and 8th September in New York.

25 October 2016

Finextra TV/Innovation

Customers want a path through uncertainty

Adam Raw, Head of FI Propositions, Global Transaction Banking, Lloyds Banking Group, discusses the regulatory, political and technology drivers creating an environment of uncertainty for transaction banks and their customers, and looks at how banks can help their customers by bringing improved speed and agility to product development through the implementation of cross-functional teams.

25 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

SocGen is first corporate partner of Liberte Living Lab

Societe Generale Group is the first Corporate partner of Liberté Living Lab, a new French innovation hub inaugurated on 18 October.

25 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

Ingenico awards winners of UK payment app challoenge

Ingenico Group, global leader in seamless payment, is pleased to announce the winner of its 2016 Telium TETRA App Challenge.

25 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

CFPB publishes Project Catalyst innovation report

Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report highlighting various market developments that have the potential to produce benefits for consumers.

25 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

Propel Ventures invests in insurtech startup Hixme

Propel Venture Partners, the San Francisco-based venture capital (VC) partnership in which BBVA is an investor, today announced its investment in Hixme – its sixth investment since the establishment of the U.S. fund in February this year.

25 October 2016

News/Innovation

Mastercard builds chatbots for banks and merchants; teams with Fit Pay

Mastercard is joining the Facebook Messenger gold rush, developing artificial intelligence chatbots for banks and merchants that allow customers to transact, manage finances, and shop via the platform.

25 October 2016

Company update/Innovation

Blockchain and natural language searches join Capital One's tech agenda

Capital One announced today that it will partner with leading digital technology providers to offer an enhanced suite of capabilities to its Treasury Management clients.

25 October 2016

News/Innovation

Bank of America to roll out AI chatbot

Bank of America has unveiled Erica, an AI chatbot that will be available to answer queries and help the bank's million of mobile app users make smarter spending and saving decisions.

25 October 2016