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Italy's CBI and Nexi to collaborate on Open Banking innovations

CBI, the think tank for innovation for the payments market in the financial industry promoted by the Italian Banking Association, has teamed up with Nexi, the PayTech for banks, to add a new feature to the CBI Globe platform which will enable banks to develop fintech services in response to the growing needs of corporate and retail clients.

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Ping An Technology and Intel form innovation lab

Ping An Technology and Intel are building an innovation lab in Shenzhen to experiment in areas such as cloud, AI, security and storage.

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How to build defences to accelerate innovation and generate revenue

The total value of global fintech deals in the first six months of 2019 was $22 billion. While this figure may seem staggering, when compared to $31.2 billion in the same period the year before, this is a steep decline of 29%.

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GBST launches investment pathways functionality

GBST is adding new investment pathways functionality to its Composer® platform to support client preparations for the introduction of the pathways legislation in August 2020.

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Tradeteq joins IBM's quantum computing network

Tradeteq has joined the IBM Q Network – a group of companies, academic institutions, start-ups and national research labs working with IBM to advance quantum computing.

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ING opens its new office in Amsterdam

ING today officially opened its new corporate office in Amsterdam.

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UK regulators flesh out digital data strategy

The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England are working on the development of a new dynamic data strategy, with the aim of using advanced analytics and automation techniques to ease the regulatory process and deepen their understanding of market behaviour.

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MAS receives 21 bids for five digital banking licences

The Monetary Authority of Singapore says it has received 21 applications for five available digital bank licences from firms operating across the full spectrum of financial and technology services.

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Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab London includes 50% more female founders for 2020 cohort

In its eighth year, Accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab London welcomes a cohort of 20 fintechs, with a 50% increase in the number of female founders from the previous year.

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iFast joins virtual bank licence race in Singapore

Singapore-listed wealth management tech supplier iFast is the latest firm to throw its hat into the ring in a bid to scoop a virtual banking licence in the Island state.

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Wells analyst: The 2020s will be a "golden age" for banks and technology

Wells Fargo banking analyst Mike Mayo has forecast that the coming decade will be a "golden age of banks and technology", as IT insiders move up the ranks of management and banks emerge from wreckage of the financial crisis.

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Worldline takes pay-by-face system on the road

Worldline is to stage the first live demonstrations of a new pay-by-face system at the National Retail Federation expo in New York later this month.

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Banking predictions for 2020 – more competition, more collaboration and new sources of revenue

As 2019 draws to a close, financial services commentators and vendors have made their customary end-of-year predictions for the 12 months ahead, with increased competition through supercharged PSD2 the principal driving force.

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Finextra's year in review

With 2019 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

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Booming fintech sector laps up London office space

Office take-up in central London surged last month, driven by the booming fintech sector.

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Spanish banks to test programmable payments for smart contracts

Banco Sabadell, Banco Santander, Bankia, BBVA and CaixaBank have initiated a proof-of-concept test to deploy an interbank Smart Payments Platform that would enable the execution of payments in blockchain networks.

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Federal Reserve to host 'fintech innovation office hours'

The Federal Reserve Board is to open its doors to banks and startups in a series of 'fintech innovation office hours' throughout 2020.

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More and more banks joining the ESG agenda

Jonathan Hughes, Co-Founder, Pollinate International, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about how Pollinate are working with banks to inform them and their customers about better buying decisions to help the environment, changing consumer views about their carbon footprint, the supply chain & impact of purchasing data and whether enough banks have enough of an appetite for Sustainable Finance.

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Qatar Central Bank reveals fintech strategy

The Governor of Qatar Central Bank (QCB), Sheikh Abdulla Bin Saud Al-Thani, said that the Central Bank in its capacity as the regulatory and supervisory authority for the financial sector, is fully aware of the importance of financial technology in the development of the banking and financial sector in the country.

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Value chain vs. supply chain: Redesigning the economy

Anna Poberezhna, Founder, CEO, Smart4tech, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about Green Finance through redefining the value of water through digitisation and integrated water resource management and redesigning processes & products through the lens of system thinking & tech to make the world a better place. She speaks about the Circular Economy and the efforts to build optimisation and innovations to re-design the way the economy works by addressing value chain versus supply chain.