Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

The Launch of Accelerate and Mastercard's Fintech Journey

Jason Lane, EVP, Market Development Europe, Mastercard, speaks at Money20/20 Europe about their role in the changing fintech landscape, the launch of Accelerate and what some of the features are that brand partners can expect to benefit from.

05 June 2019

News/Innovation

Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Q&A: ING’s Benoît Legrand

Benoît Legrand, chief innovation officer at ING, graced the stage at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam to discuss how the Dutch bank has developed and deployed its own innovation methodology. Ahead of the session, Finextra spoke to Legrand about post-Brexit Amsterdam, where ideas for innovation comes from and what platforms actually are.

05 June 2019

News/Innovation

UK fintech growth programme invites applications

The UK government-backed Tech Nation is inviting applications for the second cohort of its fintech growth programme, which promises to give members intensive backing to help grow their businesses and the country's financial technology ecosystem.

05 June 2019

News/Innovation

Money 20/20 Europe 2019: Is Open Banking a complete fiasco?

On the Industry Transmutation stage at Money 20/20 Europe 2019 in Amsterdam, Dave Birch, global ambassador at Consult Hyperion opens an afternoon of sessions on Open Banking and the potential it has to reshape the way the financial services industry works.

04 June 2019

News/Innovation

Tencent leads $35m investment in UK fintech

Chinese e-commerce giant Tencent is heading up a $35 million financing round for UK-based startup TrueLayer, further adding to its growing portfolio of fintech investments.

04 June 2019

News/Innovation

Money 20/20 Europe 2019: The future of B2B banking

What can we expect from the banking industry in 2019? The second day of sessions at Money 20/20 Europe 2019 answers this question, with Drew Graham, director, digital strategy at Barclays, kicking off proceedings with Claire Calmejane, group chief innovation officer at Société Générale, Dr. Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Foundry CEO and chief of staff at 11:FS and Anne Boden, CEO and founder of Starling Bank.

04 June 2019

Company update/Innovation

Judo Bank selects Unifii's digital banking platform

Unifii’s Digital Experience Platform has been selected by Judo Bank, the first SME focused bank operating in Australia, to enable cutting-edge face-to-face relationship banking that will shake up Australia’s banking status quo.

04 June 2019

News/Innovation

Money 20/20 Europe 2019: Stop innovating, start executing

Money20/20 Europe dives deep into three debates that continue in boardrooms across Europe around the subject of cultural innovation, technology innovation and external innovation.

03 June 2019

Company update/Innovation

89% of merchants 'primed for open banking' says Nuapay research

Eighty-nine percent of airline, supermarket and subscription economy merchants are primed for Open Banking and have assessed the impact it will have on their business a new piece of research commissioned by Nuapay, a Sentenial company, has revealed.

03 June 2019

Company update/Innovation

Paybase joins Startup Grind's accelerator programme

Leading payments solution Paybase has been selected to be part of Startup Grind’s 2019 Accelerate programme.

03 June 2019

Company update/retail

Research casts doubt on future of high street banking

A quarter of the UK (25%) believe the high street bank will be ‘dead’ in five years, according to new research conducted by Contis, the banking and payments solution provider.

03 June 2019

Company update/Innovation

Pannovate and Bankingblocks join forces to offer platform for neobanks

Successful banking disruptor Bankingblocks and smart solutions provider Pannovate Limited have partnered to bring to market a complete banking solution for neo and challenger banks.

03 June 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Explainable AI in banking

Rajiv Desai, SVP for US Operations & Sales, Pelican, speaks at NextGen Banking London about Explainable AI in banking, the key challenges for banks in applying AI to their existing processes and how they can practically go about incorporating specific AI skills into their existing solution offering.

03 June 2019

Company update/Innovation

AlphaPoint reshuffles executive board

AlphaPoint, a leading global provider of asset tokenization software and digital trading technology founded in 2013, announced the appointment of President Igor Telyatnikov to the position of Chief Executive Officer.

03 June 2019

News/Innovation

Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Q&A: World Economic Forum’s Ashley Lannquist

Ashley Lannquist, project lead, blockchain & distributed ledger technology at World Economic Forum, will be taking to the stage at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam to discuss the industry consortia for blockchain innovation on Tuesday this week. Ahead of the session, Finextra spoke to Lannquist about any use cases that have been beneficial for the financial services, the WEF’s work with the technology and how to take an inclusive approach.

03 June 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Making Open Banking Mainstream

Jim Wadsworth, SVP Open Banking, Mastercard, speaks about the significance of Open Banking in Financial Services , how fast we can expect open banking to become mainstream, what the challenges along the way will be and what what role traditional players will play.

03 June 2019

News/ai

OCBC launches postgraduate AI scholarship

Singapore's OCBC Bank has teamed up with two local universities to launch a postgraduate artificial intelligence scholarship.

03 June 2019

News/Innovation

China and India lead global fintech services adoption

Fintech is mainstream, according to a global survey from EY which finds that financial technology services are used by the majority of people in India, China and the UK, although are considerably less popular in the US, France and Japan.

03 June 2019

News/devops

FusionONE Hackathon: Interview with winner Scott Hiett

Finextra spoke to the 15-year-old Marling School student Scott Hiett after his victory at Finastra’s FusionONE Hackathon, beating other developers double his age with his winning product Hyber, an AI-based foreign exchange app that allows users to grow holiday money ahead of their trip.

03 June 2019

Finextra TV/Innovation

Finastra's vision and the thought behind FusionONE

Martin Häring, CMO at Finastra, speaks to Hannah Wallace, Finextra at FusionONE about Finastra's vision to develop an open platform to empower and unlock the potential of people, business and communities, what has prevented innovation in the past for Financial Institutions and where FusionFabric.cloud fits in.

31 May 2019