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News/regulation
Co-founder and head of client delivery of RegTech Associates, Dr Sian Lewin has urged the financial community to stop thinking of regulators simply as “powerful organisations, here to control our behaviour, and stop us from doing certain things in the name of public interest.”
22 April 2021
News/retail
Revolut is preparing a new fundraising round that would value the digital banking app at between $10 billion and $15 billion, according to Sky News.
19 April 2021
News/crime
In June 2020, the FCA acted overnight to freeze customer accounts across UK fintech firms including Curve, Pockit, Soldo, Anna Money and Holvi, after Wirecard Card Solution’s (WCS) parent company filed for insolvency in Germany.
15 April 2021
News/people
According to Forbes, a new billionaire was minted every 17 hours in 2020.
08 April 2021
News/cloud
BBVA has today announced that it will be the first bank in Europe to deploy Google Cloud’s security analytics platform Chronicle and will use AI and machine learning to predict and prevent cyberattacks.
23 February 2021
News/crypto
Finextra is at Davos this year, covering global insights into the impact fintech has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing a new social contract.
26 January 2021
News/sustainable
25 January 2021
Research/Non-bank competitors
18 January 2021 657 downloads
Consumer expectations, behaviour and payment preferences are and will continue to evolve at an accelerated rate.
07 January 2021
07 January 2021 559 downloads
17 December 2020 426 downloads
14 December 2020 357 downloads
Cloud adoption for financial services firms has been on the rise over the past few years - a trend that has been further bolstered by the wave of digitisation brought on by the global pandemic.
11 December 2020
Online money transfer firm TransferWise plans to add 750 jobs over the next six months, equivalent to more than a third of its current workforce.
09 December 2020
News/payments
The vast majority of banks (94%) believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has turned the payments market into a technology arms race for which they are unprepared.
07 December 2020
Months after striking a deal with Microsoft to become a ‘cloud-first’ bank and migrate all core applications to the cloud by 2025, Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered joins Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 to discuss resilience, the future of digital transformation and why a good partnership is central to achieving this.
News/inclusion
Speaking at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020, CEO of Alphabet Inc and its subsidiary Google Sundar Pichai highlights that “online has been a lifeline in Southeast Asia” and eight out of 10 people have revealed that “technology helped them navigate the pandemic.”
News/startups
In anticipation of the official launch, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) invited industry participants to join an examination into the results of the Global Covid-19 Fintech Market Rapid Assessment Study, compiled in partnership with the World Bank and World Economic Forum.
01 December 2020
27 November 2020 465 downloads
While day one discussions centred around how open banking needs to reach a point where it is just accepted as a conventional way that consumers, corporates and banks can manage their accounts and make payments, panel sessions on the second day of EBAday 2020 focused on how the cloud and Payments as a Service (PaaS) can also act as an enabler for open banking, potentially cutting out rails that are currently acting as intermediaries.
25 November 2020
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