Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

Championing financial inclusion and helping the Unstoppables

Norris Koppel, CEO & Founder, Monese, speaks openly about how his personal experience inspired him to address the issue of people cut off from banking services. Hear how he has grown a successful Fintech to drive financial inclusion

10 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Mash joins Luxembourg innovation hub

Mash, the market leading European payment and lending company, has become the first Innovation Partner of the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (The LHoFT Foundation), Luxembourg’s dedicated financial technology innovation hub.

09 July 2018

News/Innovation

Flux ready for take-off on Barclays Launchpad; scores trial with Costa Coffee

The Costa coffee chain is to begin a trial of the Flux cashback rewards platform in its London outlets. The news comes as Flux goes live on Barclays Launchpad, the UK bank's project for testing new features with real customers.

09 July 2018

News/Innovation

Banca Carige and IBM create $500 million joint venture

Italy's Banca Carige has outsourced its digital transformation programme to IBM under a $500 million joint venture dubbed Dock.

09 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Corporate liquidity management and the Euro-payments arena

Henrik Lang, Head of Liquidity, GTS EMEA at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, talks at EBAday 2018 about the key themes of the event, whether the speed of account of rationalisation has been strong in the Europe payments arena since SEPA and what will be the impact of RTP on liquidity management.

06 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Changes in domestic and cross border payments

Jerry Norton , Head of Strategy, Financial Services, CGI, talks at EBAday 2018 about the top areas of discussion within the industry today, how the payments market is changing international and domestically, and what considerations need to be had when creating an API.

06 July 2018

News/Innovation

HSBC highlights the six new banking careers of the future

HSBC is preparing for the ongoing revolution in banking, highlighting six new types of jobs that will be necessary to forge a career in a digitally-enabled financial services industry.

06 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Alliance challenges FCA to do more to support professionalism in UK financial services

A financial services Alliance with a combined global membership of 200,000 is challenging the FCA to do more to support professionalism in UK financial services.

05 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Edinburgh Napier University launches dedicated Fintech course

Prospective students will have the chance to combine digital skills with the finance world after Edinburgh Napier launched a new dedicated Masters degree in Fintech.

05 July 2018

News/Innovation

UBS puts digital clone of chief investment officer in branch

Wealth management clients visiting a UBS branch in Switzerland will soon be able to get advice from an AI-powered avatar of the bank's chief investment officer.

04 July 2018

News/Innovation

Lloyds hires former Google 'pirate' Makoski as chief design officer

Lloyds Banking Group has hired UX design guru Dan Makoski to fill a newly-created role as chief design officer.

04 July 2018

News/Innovation

EBA warns banks on being too passive or proactive on fintech

As they seek to steer a course through the new fintech environment, financial services firms must beware the risks to their business models of both being too passive and too gung-ho in their embrace of new technologies, says a European Banking Authority report.

03 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Commercialising open banking and gaining revenue

Nadish Lad, Director, Head of Payments Product, Volante Technologies, talks at EBAday 2018 about the force of compliance in the market today, what challenges banks are seeing when implementing open banking, what options are available to them and how to gain revenue on the investment.

03 July 2018

News/Innovation

FCA welcomes firms working on crypto-assets to latest sandbox cohort

The Financial Conduct Authority's regulatory sandbox continues to gather momentum, with 29 firms - including some working with crypto-assets - getting the go-ahead to join the initiative's fourth cohort.

03 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Targeting prevailing pain points within the treasury sphere

Basir Shamsie, Deputy CEO, JS Bank, speaks at The Temenos Community Forum: Digital to the Core, about the prevailing pain points within the treasury sphere today and how Temenos has contributed to the treasury part of JS Bank.

03 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Bank of Lithuania releases new RegTech tool for e-licensing

The Bank of Lithuania has introduced an e-licensing tool that makes submission of information necessary to obtain an operating licence quicker, easier and less expensive.

03 July 2018

News/Innovation

Bermuda to create new class of banks to encourage fintech

The Government of Bermuda is to amend the Banking Act to create a new class of bank specifically to cater to local fintech and blockchain companies.

03 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Instant payments crucial for future success

Simon Wilson, Global Software Sales Director, Icon Solutions, talks at EBAday 2018 about the latest developments within the instant payments market, why instant payments are so crucial for the future success of banks and what they need to consider when implementing.

02 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Payment processing across APAC

Alistair Brown, Global Head of Payments, EPAM, talks at EBAday 2018 about the main challenges within the banking sphere today, how to make a relationship with a fintech successful and whether APAC is a consolidated marketplace or overly a fragmented.

02 July 2018

News/Innovation

Oracle to locate European fintech hub in Brussels

Big tech company Oracle is to locate a new 'Fintech Innovation Programme' in Belgium, teaming up with local startup supporter B-Hive.

02 July 2018