Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

New Zurich blockchain hub 'Trust Square' opens in the heart of Switzerland’s commercial centre

New Zurich blockchain hub “Trust Square” officially launches today with an opening ceremony chaired by the Head of the Department for Economic Affairs of the Canton of Zurich, Carmen Walker Späh.

27 April 2018

News/Innovation

Singapore to fast track fintech patent processing

Singapore's Intellectual Property Office is to speed up the time taken to patent new fintech inventions in an effort to help startups bring their applications to the market more rapidly.

27 April 2018

News/Innovation

Top European banks gather to debate the merits of AI

Finextra has assembled an all-star cast of sponsors and speakers for next month's NextGen Banking London: the AI Revolution event, shedding light on a technology billed by Gartner as the most disruptive to engulf the enterprise over the next ten years.

27 April 2018

News/Innovation

Deutsche Bank looks to big data for stock price clues

Deutsche Bank's research unit has unveiled an interactive web tool that uses big data in an effort to quantify the importance of intangibles, such as environmental and social issues, on stock prices.

27 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

F10 FinTech Incubator & Accelerator partners Crypto Valley Labs

F10 FinTech Incubator & Accelerator and Crypto Valley Labs have announced a partnership around bringing more crypto and blockchain knowledge to Zurich and supporting fintech startups working with crypto currencies or blockchain technology.

26 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

Sberbank presents survey on world robot technology market

Sberbank has presented an analytic survey on the world robot technology market. The presentation was held at the Skolkovo Robotics Forum in Skolkovo’s large technopark.

26 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

European Commission lays down plans for AI

Today the European Commission is presenting a series of measures to put artificial intelligence (AI) at the service of Europeans and boost Europe's competitiveness in this field.

26 April 2018

News/Innovation

BBVA uses Ether and Hyperledger to perform corporate loan deal

BBVA has closed a EUR75 million corporate loan deal with technology partner Indra, performing the complete process from negotiation to the signing of the loan over a mix of different public and private blockchain-based platforms.

26 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

UK Government goes all in on AI

More than 50 leading businesses and organisations have contributed to the development of a £1 billion deal to put the nation at the forefront of the artificial intelligence industry, featuring almost £300 million of new private sector investment.

26 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

BNP Paribas adapts Finlabs concept for Bank of the West

Finlabs is a joint programme by Bank of the West and L’Atelier BNP Paribas. It combines L’Atelier’s unique experience in creating partnerships with start-up companies that develop innovative financial technologies, and the BNP Paribas Group.

25 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

Singapore and Vietnam sign fintech innovation pact

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) have agreed today to establish a new partnership to encourage FinTech innovation and to strengthen cooperation in banking supervision.

25 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

Barclays and the Law Society launch 'law-tech' incubator

Barclays today launched a new law-tech incubator in partnership with the Law Society.

25 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

Gartner bills AI as most disruptive technology to emerge over the next ten years

Global business value derived from artificial intelligence (AI) is projected to total $1.2 trillion in 2018, an increase of 70 percent from 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. AI-derived business value is forecast to reach $3.9 trillion in 2022.

25 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

Ecobank launches Fintech Challenge for African start-ups

Ecobank, the leading pan-African banking group, is inviting African fintech entrepreneurs to enter its Ecobank Fintech Challenge.

25 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

CFTC calls for input on fintech competition

LabCFTC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) FinTech initiative, announced today that it is requesting public input to gather ideas and topics for innovation competitions to advance the agency’s FinTech goals.

25 April 2018

News/Innovation

Five European institutions join multi-bank innovation platform

Aareal Bank, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank and NETS Group have joined with Silicon Valley-based innovation platform Plug and Play to create a fintech centre of excellence in Frankfurt.

25 April 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Certainty and security with instant payments

Gerhard Bystricky, Head of Product Management Payments Germany, UniCredit Bank AG, talks about the progress of pan-European instant payments since it launched, what some of the practical experiences are what else needs to be done to grow the volumes and value of these payments.

24 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

Deutsche Bourse and Catalysts invite software engineers to join global coding contest

On 27 April, Deutsche Börse Group will host a coding contest in Frankfurt, organized by the Austrian IT service provider Catalysts.

24 April 2018

News/Innovation

Swift Business Forum London - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum London 2018. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry, exploring how far and how fast the transformation of financial services will take place in the UK and beyond.

24 April 2018

Company update/Innovation

ABN Amro hosts hackathon to help build the bank of the future

The bank of the future is closer than we imagine. What will happen if we host an event where various players help give shape to the future of banking?

23 April 2018