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News/startups
A survey of fintech executives has labelled Hong Kong as uncompetitive in relation to other financial centres around the world.
26 August 2022
News/crypto
Revenue derived from cryptocurrency-related crime is down by 65% in the first half of 2022 compared to the corresponding period in 2021.
22 August 2022
News/payments
A new UK Finance Payment Markets report finds Faster Payments volumes increased by 23% to 3.6 billion from 2020 to 2021. The report looks at the latest payment trends from 2021 and forecasts up to 2031.
19 August 2022
News/retail
Digital challengers Starling and Monzo have been ranked the top personal and business current account providers in the UK.
15 August 2022
News/cloud
Research by Gartner identified 25 “must-know” emerging technologies across three key areas which it predicts will greatly impact business and society over the next two to ten years.
12 August 2022
News/regulation
The United Nation’s Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, has released three policy briefs on the dangers of cryptocurrency in light of the rising use of digital assets in developing countries.
If an open and decentralised metaverse grows, the risks from cryptoassets may scale to have systemic financial stability consequences, say a pair of Bank of England wonks.
10 August 2022
A well-designed central bank digital currency may enhance rather than weaken financial stability, according to a working paper from the US Treasury's Office of Financial Research.
09 August 2022
The Bank of Thailand has announced the launch of its retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot, set to run from late 2022 to mid-2023.
05 August 2022
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) could be the answer to the thousand-year search for the holy grail of cross-border payments, according to a new paper from the ECB.
03 August 2022
Australian neobank Up Bank, has launched savings service Maybuy. Maybuy is designed as an alternative to Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) products which have become increasingly popular in recent years.
01 August 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine will cause disruption to cross-border payment systems and could, in conjunction with technological advances, challenge the dominance of the Swift network, predicts a paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
29 July 2022
News/security
Research by ACI Worldwide has found that one in ten UK adults fell victim to online fraud in the past four years.
27 July 2022
News/sustainable
In June 2022, banking giant NatWest launched Carbon Planner, a service designed to help businesses in reducing their carbon footprint. To learn more about the solution, Finextra spoke with head of climate change at NatWest, James Close.
22 July 2022
News/wholesale
Corporates' demands for digital services are leading a majority of corporate banks to look in-house when building their technology stack, according to recently published research.
20 July 2022
Financial services firms are falling short in their efforts to monitor employees' use of social media messaging despite ear-marking communications surveillance as an investment priority, according to recent research.
19 July 2022
Research conducted by Temenos has concluded that two out of three adults have used embedded finance services during the checkout process online in the past year.
06 July 2022
More than a third of UK shoppers have been unable to complete an e-commerce transaction because of new strong customer authentication (SCA) rules, according to a survey for Signifyd.
News/inclusion
New research from Mastercard details discrimination of non-binary individuals in their financial experiences.
01 July 2022
News/covid-19
The Global COVID-19 Fintech Impact and Resilience Study, published by the Cambridge Centre of Alterative Finance (CCAF), the World Bank Group, and the World Economic Forum, has concluded that the fintech industry was more resilient to the pandemic than previously stated in an earlier report from December 2020.
28 June 2022
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