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‘Real money to be made’ in treasury management says Bound CEO

Opening the final day of Money 20/20 Europe was a session exploring whether treasury management is broken.

06 June 2024

Former Barclays CPO Megan Caywood Cooper launches AI wealthtech

Megan Caywood Cooper, former Barclays chief product officer and Starling chief platform officer, has announced her new AI wealthtech Caywood, at Money 20/20 today.

06 June 2024

News/people

François Hollande: Fintech investment is key

The former French President, François Hollande, gave a keynote session at Money 20/20 speaking on the current state of French technology investments and about how he turned France into a Fintech hub.

05 June 2024

News/ai

Bunq leverages NVIDIA AI to debunk financial fraud

Dutch neobank bunq this week announced their partnership with NVIDIA to combat fraudsters with the help of accelerated computing and AI.

05 June 2024

News/payments

Visa looks to generative AI to enhance tokenisation

At Money 20/20 Europe, Mehret Habteab, senior VP of product and solutions at Visa Europe, announced the company generated $40 billion in incremental e-commerce revenue globally, after issuing over 10 billion tokens since their launch in 2014.

04 June 2024

News/retail

Mastercard and bunq forge AI open banking partnership

Mastercard and bunq have announced their partnership to create an open banking and AI tool at Money 20/20 Europe.

04 June 2024

News/sustainable

Money20/20: Neobank dedicated to scientific research to launch this year

During Money20/20 in Amsterdam, Finextra caught up with Daniel Baeriswyl, CEO and founder of Science Card, a neobank that offers customers an online current account and the opportunity to make contributions to impactful peer-reviewed scientific research.

08 June 2023

News/devops

Money20/20: Quantum and generative AI together is ‘scary’ - ING

At Money20/20 in Amsterdam, Finextra chatted to ING’s head of corporate strategy & innovation Jeroen Plag about how the bank has merged the innovation and strategy departments bringing initiatives closer to the business like CoorpID and Blacksmith and is now focusing on building new assets.

07 June 2023

News/payments

Money20/20: Flutterwave CEO on being 'in the trust business'

Ahead of Money20/20 in Amsterdam, Finextra spoke to Olugbenga 'GB' Agboola, CEO of Flutterwave, about Europe's formula for supporting the fintech industry and how to prioritise digital trust amid global unrest and uncertainty.

06 June 2023

News/regulation

Money20/20 US: CFPB to finalise US open banking rule by 2024

Director of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Rohit Chopra, took to the Money20/20 stage to outline the Bureau’s strategy toward determining regulation of open banking in the US.

25 October 2022

News/payments

Money20/20 US: JP Morgan adds Meta Pay checkout option

JP Morgan today announced that all merchants within their payments network will now have the option to enable Meta Pay for their customers.

25 October 2022

News/retail

Money20/20 US: Wells Fargo and Google launch AI assistant ‘Fargo’

Wells Fargo today unveiled the launch of Fargo, a virtual assistant driven by Google Cloud’s AI technology to improve their retail and consumer banking experience.

24 October 2022

News/payments

Money2020 US: Serena Williams and JP Morgan on picking a tech winner

The Money20/20 US headline act brought together none other than the GOAT Serena Williams and JP Morgan’s head of payments, Takis Georgakopolous, to dissect the latest and greatest trends across payments, and how to pick a winning venture investment.

24 October 2022

News/payments

Money20/20 US: Marqeta adds suite of BaaS products to card issuing platform

Global card issuer, Marqeta, today released a suite of seven products to offer embedded end-to-end banking products, expanding the portfolio of its card issuing platform.

24 October 2022

News/crypto

Money20/20 US: Anchorage launches full-stack crypto offering

Anchorage today unveiled the launch of ‘Build With Anchorage’ at Money20/20 in Las Vegas. A full-stack infrastructure offering that facilitates crypto payment gateways, structured financial products, and crypto investing, the service will enable fintechs, payments firms and banks to design and embed a full crypto product lifecycle via Anchorage APIs.

24 October 2022

News/inclusion

Money20/20 US: Zirtue takes 'America's Got Access' crown

Relationship-based lending app Zirtue has scooped up the $100,000 top prize at Money20/20's new startup pitch competition, 'America's Got Access'.

24 October 2022

News/crypto

Money20/20 US: Regulators missing crypto’s ‘sleeping issue’ – Andreessen Horowitz

Taking the stage for day one session, ‘Rationally Regulating Web3: The opportunity of a lifetime,’ Jai Ramaswamy, chief legal officer, Andreessen Horowitz said regulators are missing a core issue with supervision of Web3.

24 October 2022

News/people

Money20/20 US: The inside track on fintech’s biggest event

Money20/20 USA is set to kick off this weekend, live and in-person at none other than the infamous halls of The Venetian, Las Vegas. The conference is a mainstay of the fintech event-season, and with over 11,500 attendees and 3,000+ companies expected to descend on the Vegas strip, a smorgasbord of announcements and updates will be unveiled in the coming days.

21 October 2022

News/people

Stripe taps Meta's Sharma to lead new revenue and financial management team

Stripe has appointed Microsoft and Meta veteran Vivek Sharma as its first head of revenue and financial management.

17 October 2022

News/payments

PayPal to ride out social media backlash over misinformation policy change

Online payments giant PayPal is unlikely to suffer any significant impact from a customer backlash over a supposed charge for users spreading misinformation, acccording to financial analysts.

14 October 2022