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Intesa Sanpaolo goes live with ClauseMatch

ClauseMatch, a financial technology company founded in 2012, officially announced today that it has become operational at Intesa Sanpaolo.

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Movencorp issued financial wellness patent

Movencorp, Inc, a leading provider of smart banking technologies to promote financial wellness, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No. 10,217,162 covering the “Methods and Apparatus for Promoting Financial Behavioral Change.”

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Banking industry stops £4.5mn of fraudulent payments per day, UK Finance finds

The finance industry prevented £820 million of unauthorised fraud in the first half of 2019, up 14 per cent on the previous year, according to the latest figures from UK Finance.

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Bulgarian scammer jailed for £41.6m fraud

A Bulgarian phishing expert who created website scripts designed to look just like the real websites of legitimate companies to help criminals defraud victims out of an estimated £41.6 million has been jailed for nine years.

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Iberclear secures CSDR licence

Iberclear, BME’s Spanish Central Securities Depository, has been granted authorisation to continue operating under the EU's Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR), a new set of regulations aimed at improving the settlement of securities in the EU.

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Increase in sanctions revealed by Accuity Data

Accuity, the leading global provider of financial crime screening, payments and know your customer (KYC) solutions, has revealed new research into the current sanctions landscape that demonstrates a significant increase in complexity for organisations involved in global trade.

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MAS bids to help payments firms access legal services

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) have launched a new Payments Regulatory Evaluation Programme (PREP) to help connect the payments industry with legal service providers.

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CIB Limited awarded banking licence

CIB Limited, part of the Capital International Group, an Isle of Man headquartered company has been awarded a provisional class 1(2) banking licence. The licence is the first class 1(2) to be issued on the Isle of Man under the Alternative Banking Regime.

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EPA calls for wider account access

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA) has today published its response to the publication of UK Finance’s good practice guidelines on Access to Payment Account services.

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Diebold Nixdorf to contest shareholder class action lawsuit

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD) understands that a plaintiffs' law firm has filed a putative federal securities class action complaint against the company and two former officers relating to the company's pre-earnings announcement dated July 5, 2017.

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Chainalysis names Michael Mosier chief technical counsel

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, has appointed Michael Mosier as Chief Technical Counsel.

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Innsworth signs agreement to fund £14bn Mastercard consumer claim

Innsworth Litigation Funding confirms that it has agreed to fully fund the £14bn Mastercard consumer claim.

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US seeks extradition of alleged cryptocurrency fraudster

In a criminal complaint unsealed today, a citizen of Sweden and his company were charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in a scheme to defraud potential investors.

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Polymath and Blockpass team upfor ID verification

Leading security token platform Polymath has today announced a strategic collaboration with digital identity verification solution Blockpass.

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NatWest to offer first SONIA loans

NatWest is to become the first bank in the UK to respond to calls from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to accelerate the transition away from loan products that use LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) towards Risk-Free Rates (RFRs) by the end of 2021.

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Law firm Addleshaw Goddard adds fintechs to growth programme

Nine innovative fintech businesses have been awarded a position on Addleshaw Goddard’s prestigious growth programme – AG Elevate.

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Exegy files patent infringement lawsuit against Activ Financial

Exegy Inc., the leading provider of managed services and low-latency technology for market data normalization and distribution, today announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against ACTIV Financial Systems Inc. (ACTIV), a global distributor of financial market data.

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Law firm Reed Smith hires fintech expert Christine Trent Parker

Christine Trent Parker has joined Reed Smith as a partner resident in the firm’s New York office. Parker joins from Sullivan & Cromwell, where she was a member of its Commodities, Futures and Derivatives, and Capital Markets groups.

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Patrick Buhannic withdraw from legal spat with tradingScreen

TradingScreen Inc. (TS), the global, multi-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), today announced that Patrick Buhannic has voluntarily agreed to be dismissed with prejudice from all the lawsuits brought by his brother Philippe Buhannic against TradingScreen and other defendants in New York State Court and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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EquiLend gets MTF approval in ireland

The Central Bank of Ireland has approved EquiLend Limited, the Dublin-based business of global securities finance technology provider EquiLend, to operate a multilateral trading facility (MTF) in Ireland.

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