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Visa launches NFT programme

Visa has launched a programme to help digital-first artists grow their businesses through non-fungible tokens.

31 March 2022

Bank of Canada partners MIT on CBDC research

The Bank of Canada has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a twelve-month research project on central bank digital currencies.

18 March 2022

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Amex files metaverse-related trademark applications

American Express has filed trademark applications to register its name, logo, and slogans for a range of banking services in the metaverse.

16 March 2022

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Deutsche Bank report warns of fallout from Russia's Swift ban

Facing criticism for its reluctance to pull out of Russia, Deutsche Bank has published a research report warning that banning the pariah state from Swift will "complicate trade and amplify jitters".

11 March 2022

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Big Data, DLT, IoT and AI set to transform trade supply chains - Commerzbank

Commerzbank claims that international trade and supply chains have reached a technological inflection point, with emerging technologies in Big data, blockchain, Internet of Things and artifical intelligence set to overturn long-established practices.

03 February 2022

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Starling pulls Facebook advertising; preps SaaS offering

Starling CEO Anne Boden says the bank has pulled all paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram until Meta tackles fraudsters advertising on its platforms. In her annual letter, Boden also confirms the planned launch of a Software as a Service (SaaS) proposition during 2022.

07 January 2022

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Finextra's top whitepapers of 2021

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

31 December 2021

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Finextra's top Future Series reports of 2021

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded Future Series reports over the course of the past year. Finextra’s Future Series is an annual editorial report series covering a fintech topic at a high level and includes interviews from financial institutions, usually a global range from EMEA, APAC and the Americas.

30 December 2021

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Finextra's top impact study reports of 2021

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to guides that support professionals in the financial industry in their migration to and utilisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

29 December 2021

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Finextra's year in review

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

23 December 2021

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APImetrics and Finextra launch open access fintech, open banking and crypto API data dashboard

Finextra Research and APImetrics - the industry’s only analytics-driven API performance solution provider - have collaborated to offer the first open access dashboard that will monitor real-world performance of fintech, open banking, PSD2 payments and crypto APIs.

13 December 2021

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Open Banking adoption in UK lending set to hit 70% in next two years

A quarter of UK lenders now use Open Banking technology, with half of those that don't planning to do so in the future, according to research from Credit Kudos.

10 December 2021

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French and Swiss central banks hail completed wholesale CBDC trial

The Banque de France, the Swiss National Bank and BIS Innovation Hub are hailing the completion of their cross-border wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) experiment.

09 December 2021

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SocGen makes play to be a data-driven bank

Societe Generale is putting its faith in data and AI to help it transition to, and prosper in, the digital age.

24 November 2021

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Banks could boost revenues by four percent by embracing digital-first models

Traditional banks could increase their annual revenues by nearly four per cent if they embrace the innovative business models used by digital-only players, according to an Accenture report.

10 November 2021

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JPMorgan estimates CBDCs could save corporates £100 billion in transaction costs

A full-scale, multiple central bank digital currency (mCBDC) network could potentially save global corporates up to $100 billion in transaction costs annually, according to a joint research report from Oliver Wyman and JPMorgan.

04 November 2021

News/payments

Visa boasts it is fuelling BNPL around the world

With new RBC analysis suggesting that the US buy now, pay later market is set for explosive growth, Visa says issuers, acquirers and fintechs are snapping up its instalment payments technology.

27 October 2021

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European fintech funding booming but could be set to stall

European fintech funding rebounded from its pandemic lull in the first half of 2021, according to a Finch Capital report which nevertheless warns that the boom could stall again next year.

19 October 2021

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Over 100,000 banking jobs to disappear in next five years - Wells Fargo

Analysts at Wells Fargo predict that over 100,000 banking jobs could be displaced by technology over the next five years.

04 October 2021

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Visa bids to make digital currencies interoperable

Visa is working on a 'universal payment channel' (UPC) that enables interoperability between different digital currencies such as CBDCs and private stablecoins.

30 September 2021