Latest Non-bank competitors News: Finextra Research

Tencent leads $35m investment in UK fintech

Chinese e-commerce giant Tencent is heading up a $35 million financing round for UK-based startup TrueLayer, further adding to its growing portfolio of fintech investments.

04 June 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Money 20/20 Europe 2019: The future of B2B banking

What can we expect from the banking industry in 2019? The second day of sessions at Money 20/20 Europe 2019 answers this question, with Drew Graham, director, digital strategy at Barclays, kicking off proceedings with Claire Calmejane, group chief innovation officer at Société Générale, Dr. Leda Glyptis, 11:FS Foundry CEO and chief of staff at 11:FS and Anne Boden, CEO and founder of Starling Bank.

04 June 2019

Company update/Non-bank competitors

Marqeta and CashFlows form European partnership

Marqeta, the leading global modern card issuing platform, announced a new partnership today with CashFlows, a consolidated business payment services provider, to provide BIN sponsorship services for its rapidly growing roster of European fintech customers.

04 June 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Money 20/20 Europe 2019: Stop innovating, start executing

Money20/20 Europe dives deep into three debates that continue in boardrooms across Europe around the subject of cultural innovation, technology innovation and external innovation.

03 June 2019

Company update/retail

Research casts doubt on future of high street banking

A quarter of the UK (25%) believe the high street bank will be ‘dead’ in five years, according to new research conducted by Contis, the banking and payments solution provider.

03 June 2019

Company update/Non-bank competitors

Pannovate and Bankingblocks join forces to offer platform for neobanks

Successful banking disruptor Bankingblocks and smart solutions provider Pannovate Limited have partnered to bring to market a complete banking solution for neo and challenger banks.

03 June 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Innovation driving digital acceleration in Latin America

Swift's Latin American Regional Conference (LARC) explored how banks in the region are looking to increase digitisation, while managing cyber and compliance challenges.

29 May 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

SoftBank Vision fund invests $800m in UK fintech

SoftBank's Vision Fund, the largest fintech venture capital fund in the world is reported to be investing $800m in a UK-based supplier of alternative supply chain finance, thereby doubling its valuation to $3.5bn.

13 May 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Metro Bank faces shareholder revolt

Shareholders in Metro Bank have been advised to reject the British retail bank's latest remuneration report and abstain in the vote of its directors amid ongoing concerns over accounting practices.

10 May 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

CMA9 banks respond to Open Banking mobile app delays

In light of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority scolding five of the CMA9 – Bank of Ireland, Danske Bank, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and Santander – for being in breach of Open Banking delivery on mobile apps, Finextra questions the banks on why deadlines were missed.

12 April 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Banks have been the catalyst for Nordic digital identity success

In conversation with Finextra Research, Arkwright’s Frank Wunderlich and Signicat’s John Erik Setsaas discuss their new report which highlights how the Nordic region can now act as a blueprint for digital identity success and how banks are crucial for this positive result.

09 April 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Tackling digital transformation in Nordic financial services

SWIFT's Business Forum Nordics event examined how the financial services community in the region can deliver technological innovation while managing emerging risk factors.

04 April 2019

News/inclusion

Money 20/20 Asia round-up: Accelerating financial services for the underbanked

On its return to Asia for the second year running, Money20/20 put on a world-class event in Singapore and welcomed senior leaders in financial services, fintech and payments to connect over major developments in digital money.

25 March 2019

News/retail

Money 20/20 Asia Q&A: Barclays’ John Stecher on fintech/banking co-opetition

John Stecher, chief innovation officer at Barclays, joined industry leaders at Money 20/20 Asia in Singapore to discuss the relationship traditional banks have with fintech challengers and technology companies. Ahead of the panel session, Finextra spoke to Stecher about how the ongoing evolution from competition to co-opetition between fintech startups and incumbents, as new players realise that because of a range of different factors, it is difficult to replace incumbent banks.

25 March 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

41% of banks missed PSD2 deadline says survey

Close to half of banks (41%) failed to meet a recent deadline for the Payment Services Directive (PSD2) to provide a testing environment or 'sandbox' for any third party service providers (TPPs).

21 March 2019

News/inclusion

Money 20/20 Asia: Leveraging data to provide the unbanked with credit

Money 20/20 Asia day three opened with a detailed discussion on reaching the unbanked in South East Asia, following an age in which financial inclusion has been driven by regulatory and policy mandates. Today, the ‘financial inclusion market’ is leveraging data analytics to offer a greater choice for consumers and expand in areas that financial institutions previously avoided because of increased paperwork.

21 March 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Money 20/20 Asia: HSBC, Project Iceberg and strategic investment

On the main stage at Money 20/20 Asia in Singapore, Andy Maguire, group managing director and group chief operating officer at HSBC, gave the bank’s first public talk about the digital-only banking initiative referred to as Project Iceberg, after the leak earlier this year.

20 March 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Cryptoexchange assets locked after founder dies

Operators of Canada's biggest cryptoexchange are unable to access more than £100m in reserves after its founder died taking the passwords and recovery codes with him.

05 February 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

US shutdown impacts fintech market

The ongoing shutdown of the US government, sparked by a disagreement over funding for border security, is starting to impinge on the US fintech industry, according to reports.

11 January 2019

News/Non-bank competitors

Scotland's fintechs treble in number

The number of fintechs based in Scotland has increased threefold in the last 12 months following an initiative between government, academia and the finance industry designed to boost the sector.

11 January 2019