Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

Financial Cloud Summit 2024: How is cloud usage shifting in 2024?

Finextra Research will be hosting its second Financial Cloud Summit conference on March 7th 2024 at King’s Place in London.

12 January 2024

News/cloud

Financial Cloud Summit 2024: What’s driving banks to the cloud?

Finextra Research will be hosting its second Financial Cloud Summit conference on March 7th 2024 at King’s Place in London.

05 January 2024

News/cloud

Financial Cloud Summit 2024: A look back at our 2023 conference

Finextra Research hosted its inaugural Financial Cloud Summit at King’s Place in London on 2nd March 2023.

29 December 2023

News/payments

Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers, sentiment papers and surveys over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

28 December 2023

News/payments

Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to, best practice guides that support those in the financial industry in their utilisation and optimisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

27 December 2023

Company update/crypto

Whampoa Digital and Wemade form US$100 million strategic partnership for Web3 Fund and digital asset

Singapore-based Whampoa Digital and Wemade, a leading Korean gaming company, have entered into a strategic partnership to collaborate on a US$100 million Web3 Fund to be established by Wemade (Wemade Web3 Fund) as well as on digital asset initiatives in the Middle East.

22 December 2023

News/cloud

Financial Cloud Summit 2024: A sneak peek at the agenda

Finextra Research will be hosting its second annual Financial Cloud Summit on March 7th 2024 at King’s Place in London.

22 December 2023

News/startups

HSBC expands technology scale-up lending by £100 million

HSBC UK has announced the expansion of its ‘Growth Lending’ fund from £250 million to £350 million in response to growing demand from high-growth tech scale-ups.

22 December 2023

News/cloud

Financial Cloud Summit 2024: What to expect at next year’s conference

Finextra Research will be hosting its second Financial Cloud Summit conference on March 7th 2024 at King’s Place in London.

15 December 2023

Company update/regulation

ESAs report on benefits and challenges of innovation hubs and sandboxes

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) today published a Report on innovation facilitators, a term encompassing innovation hubs and regulatory sandboxes.

11 December 2023

News/startups

Canapi Ventures raises $750m fintech fund

Canapi Ventures, a VC firm focussed on fintech startups, has raised $750 million for its second fund.

08 December 2023

Company update/regulation

FinTech Scotland open Financial Regulation Innovation Lab

FinTech Scotland proudly announces the launch of the Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL) - a dynamic initiative set to revolutionise and shape the future regulatory landscapes in the UK and around the globe.

07 December 2023

News/regulation

AI Act: Industry warns EU against overregulation

Digital Europe, a digital technology trade association, has warned the EU against overregulating in its upcoming AI bill in a letter this week.

24 November 2023

Finextra TV/security

Disrupting Financial Crime with RegTech

Costing up to $3.5 trillion annually, global financial crime demands an innovative response. By accelerating solution deployment and enhancing industry standards, Deborah Young, CEO of The RegTech Association, looks to education initiatives and collaboration to address the issue; setting the stage for the 'Regulatory Public Infrastructure' panel at this week’s Singapore FinTech Festival.

16 November 2023

Finextra TV/retail

The positive impact of AI on customer experience in financial services

With the shift from Google to GPT-4 for information searches, Greg Krasnov, the founder of Tonik Bank, examines AI’s growing influence on the financial industry ahead of this week's Singapore FinTech Festival. The discussion explores how banks are adopting AI, the implementation of Gen AI in customer interactions, where friction between regulation and innovation may arise, and the impact it is having on customer acquisition and credit applications.

15 November 2023

Company update/payments

Visa to open innovation space in Hanoi

Visa, a world leader in digital payments, is proud to announce the opening of its Innovation Space at the groundbreaking National Innovation Center – Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park in Hanoi (NIC Hoa Lac).

31 October 2023

Company update/retail

Innovate Finance Autumn statement

Innovate Finance is the independent industry body that represents and advances the global FinTech community in the UK.

26 October 2023

News/retail

CBA using Gen AI to create 'synthetic customers' for testing of new products

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is studying the use of generative AI to create 'synthetic customers' capable of emulating human behaviour, to test the response to new products and services.

23 October 2023

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2023: Hackathon Winners announced

We Succeed Together and Team Thrive have been announced as the winners of the Sustainable Finance Live 2023 hackathon, which took place 2 - 13 October 2023 alongside the conference, in partnership with NayaOne.

17 October 2023

News/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live 2023: The bank’s role in financing sustainable cities

Moving swiftly to the interactive workshop, the session Sustainable Finance Live is known for was hailed as being a rapid cocreation opportunity for attendees and where ideas became reality in just an hour.

10 October 2023