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InvestHK to run fintech Fast track programme

Invest Hong Kong is to run a Global Fast Track programme to plug the best and brightest fintech startups directly into the territory's financial ecosystem.

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RBI plans offline digital payments pilot, sets up innovation hub

The Reserve Bank of India is prepping an offline digital payments pilot to encourage the migration from cash in rural areas that lack internet connectivity.

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Worldline invites entries for e-payments challenge

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transaction services, is proud to announce it will be hosting the third edition of its e-Payments Challenge, to take place in an innovative fully virtual format for the first time ever on 17-18 September 2020.

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Singapore establishes Asian Institute of Digital Finance

The Monetary Authority of Singapore is to set up a specialist research institute to groom the next generation of fintech leaders.

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Mizuho, MUFG join Japanese quantum consortium

Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the University of Tokyo unveiled a landmark collaboration with the launch of the Quantum Innovation Initiative Consortium (QIIC).

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BBVA enlists Fujitsu for quantum computing trials

Fujitsu today announces that it is collaborating with BBVA, Spain’s second largest bank, on a proof of concept (PoC) of its quantum-inspired optimisation solution Digital Annealer1.

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India's NPCI collaborates with Apix on fintech innovation

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said that it has partnered with APIX, a FinTech collaboration platform setup by AFIN, at the first-of-its-kind virtual Global FinTech Fest 2020.

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Coordinating ESG solution ideation for investment and asset management

In June 2020, Finextra Research welcomed industry experts to Sustainable Finance Live, the first virtual interactive workshop to discuss how financial services firms and technology companies can achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

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Mission-driven US investors doubling down on financial health value propositions

Supporting financially stressed customers has become problematic as more and more people experience uncertain income reduction, triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. Emmalyn Shaw, managing partner at Flourish Ventures, a $500 million mission-driven and fintech-focused venture capital firm, highlights to Finextra Research that despite prolonged economic prosperity in the lead up to 2020, the majority of Americans were living month to month and only 29% of US consumers were financially healthy.

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RBC moves AI unit to new private cloud platform

Royal Bank of Canada has moved applications under development at its artificial intelligence research unit Borealis AI to a high-performance private cloud infrastructure with support from Red Hat and Nvidia.

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Russia's VTB Bank launches 'robot factory'

Russia's VTB Bank has launched a 'robot factory', with plans to roll 250 digital employees off the production line by the end of 2022.

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Deutsche Bank introduces Blue Bot 'Yi' to corporate customers in China

Deutsche Bank's corporate bank in China has unveiled its new customer-facing digital employee, Blu Bot Yi, charged with handling client's financial reports.

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BBVA prepares for quantum leap

BBVA is stepping up its interests in quantum computing, presenting the results of six proof of concept trials across financial business use cases.

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FCA and City Corporation to create digital sandbox for post-pandemic recovery

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the City of London Corporation are collaborating on the pilot of a ‘digital sandbox’ to support innovative firms tackling challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Santander to recruit 300 IT specialists for new innovation centre in Brazil

Banco Santander is to hire 300 IT professionals to work on digital applications at a new innovation hub in Brazil.

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Standard Chartered to investigate commercial use cases for quantum technology with USRA

Standard Chartered has signed a collaborative research agreement with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to co-operate on the development of quantum computing applications.

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TSB launches bill management pilot

TSB Bank is launching a pilot for a bill management and utility switching service in partnership with white-label fintech provider ApTap.

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FS firms accelerating digital plans amid Covid 19: Broadridge

More than half of financial services companies plan to accelerate implementation of their next generation technology strategies, according to a new global survey of 500 financial services C-Suite executives and their direct reports released today by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global fintech leader

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Defining fintech to better understand the changing ecosystem under Covid-19

When discussing the amorphous nature of fintech, Tania Ziegler, the CCAF’s Global Benchmarking lead was struck by how ‘fintech’ is increasingly used as an all-encompassing term, describing a diverse range of organisations that all have financial technology at the centre of their operations and agenda.

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India to run two-day global virtual fintech fest

Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI], and its sister organisations, Payments Council of India, [PCI] and Fintech Convergence Council [FCC] are jointly organising the two-day virtual Global FinTech Festival on 22-23 July 2020.