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/cloud

Driving decisions through cloud migration and data governance

In today’s environment, data is produced and consumed at a rapid pace. However, the way it is currently being stored, accessed, and processed is inefficient.

/cloud

Electrifying cloud migration with strategy and security

The cloud can power innovation for financial institutions. As reported by McKinsey, 70% of banks are reviewing their core banking platforms and are beginning to leverage the potential that cloud-native services can deliver, as well as the offerings provided by technology vendors.

/regulation

Sandboxes help fintech startups raise money

Entering regulatory sandboxes helps fintech startups raise capital, boosting financial innovation, suggests a BIS working paper.

/regulation

Covid-19 spurs fintech regulation innovation - study

Covid-19 has led to a strong increase in the use of fintech products and services, prompting central banks and other financial authorities to step up their own regulatory innovation efforts, according to a report from the World Bank and the Cambridge Centre For Alternative Finance (CCAF).

/security

EBAday 2020: Fraud and cybersecurity - hitting the moving target

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased challenges for financial institutions who had to react quickly to the situation, with employees working remotely and increased communication taking place digitally.

/retail

EBAday 2020: Open Banking – where do we go from here?

Recent research from ING suggested that consumers remain suspicious and uninformed about open banking despite it now being firmly embedded into the financial services ecosystem across parts of Europe and elsewhere.

/payments

FSB publishes roadmap for improving cross-border payments

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has published its roadmap for boosting cross-border payments, which have traditionally been slow, expensive and unreliable.

/payments

Capgemini World Payments Report 2020: 38% discover new payment provider during Covid-19 lockdown

More than a third of consumers discovered a new payment provider during the Covid-19 crisis, according to Capgemini’s World Payments Report 2020.

/crypto

Renewable energy not as prominent in cryptocurrency mining as previously claimed

The prevalence of renewable energy in cryptocurrency mining is being driven by hydroelectricity, according to a study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), but APAC’s cheap coal-powered energy is what sets it apart from other regions.

/people

Fintech suffering from dearth of women founders - Deloitte

Women make up just seven per cent of fintech company founders worldwide, with little evidence that things are changing, according to a Deloitte report.

/payments

2010 revisited: Looking beyond the traditional negotiated financial crisis

As Sibos 2020 approaches, we look back to some of the predictions and forecasts made in 2010 and pick through what other lessons can be learnt from the post-financial crisis world to inform strategy in the not dissimilar economic environment of today.

/crime

Finance employees deemed least trustworthy

Employees working in the financial services sector are 30% less trustworthy than colleagues in other sectors.

/crypto

Investors to increase allocation to crypto assets

The growing number of startups offering crypto investment services will be buoyed by news that institutional investors are set to increase the amount of capital they spend on crypto assets.

/payments

Royal Mint will not make new 2p or £2 coins for 10 years

With demand dwindling, the UK's Royal Mint is not planning to make any new 2p or £2 coins over the next decade.

/startups

Fintech sector faces "existential crisis" says McKinsey

Europe's fintech sector faces an "existential crisis", says McKinsey, as sources of funding dry up during the ongoing Covid pandemic.

/sustainable

UK banks accused of failing on climate strategy

Despite much green talk, just two of the UK's 36 main banks can clearly demonstrate effective plans to reduce their carbon impacts in a timely manner, claims research from the Ethical Consumer magazine.

/markets

BBVA trials quantum computing to optimise investment portfolio management

BBVA and Spanish startup Multiverse have run a proof-of-concept using quantum technologies to improve the process of dynamically optimising investment portfolios with market data.

/crypto

BIS examines the rise of the CBDCs

While central banks around the world are investigating the creation of their own digital currencies, there is huge variance in the approaches being taken, a new Bank for International Settlements (BIS) working paper shows.

/retail

Covid-19: UK fintech founders call for more government support

Only a quarter of UK fintech firms believe that the government has supported the sector well through the Covid-19 crisis, according to a survey of founders, with two thirds claiming that their voices are not properly heard in policy and regulatory circles.

/crypto

Fed partners MIT on 'hypothetical' digital currency

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a "hypothetical" digital currency platform.