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News/markets
Market participants working on the use of DLT in post-trade processes need to ensure interoperability if the technology is to succeed, according to a European Central Bank report.
13 April 2021
News/inclusion
Finextra’s very own head of content, Madhvi Mavadiya, has been named in Innovate Finance’s Women in FinTech Powerlist for 2020.
24 March 2021
News/regulation
Based on an independent survey of 100 fintechs across the Netherlands, Lithuania, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, a report by ClearBank reveals a multitude of challenges fintechs experience at the hands of their agency bank’s shortcomings.
23 March 2021
News/retail
With the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating the long-term decline in cash usage, banks are increasingly looking to pool or share their ATMs as a way to save money, according to RBR.
15 March 2021
There is a significant global fintech gender gap, with men far more likely to use financial technology products and services than women, according to a survey from the Bank for International Settlement (BIS).
12 March 2021
News/predictions
Global investment in fintech fell significantly in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic hit but picked up significantly in the second half of the year, according to KPMG, which expects a strong 2021 for the sector.
26 February 2021
News/security
Four in five people in Ireland say they have received a text, call or email in the last year that they believe was from fraudsters, according to an AIB survey.
22 February 2021
News/payments
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is to introduce new rules for buy now, pay later firms amid mounting fears of a growing debt burden for cash-strapped shoppers.
02 February 2021
News/crypto
Bitcoin may "break down altogether", according to BIS general manager Agustin Carstens, who has also poured cold water on stablecoin projects such as the Facebook-led Diem and argued that if digital currencies are needed they should be issued by central banks.
29 January 2021
Banks with mature digital sales processes achieve far higher growth in deposits and loans than their less advanced rivals, research from vendor Backbase suggests.
26 January 2021
News/sustainable
In conversation with Richard Peers for Finextra TV, Tonia Plakhotniuk, associate director, policy (sustainable finance & financial reporting) at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) traverses a number of predications we can expect to see around sustainable finance in 2021.
25 January 2021
A third of Indian households use digital payments, with usage spread across income groups, according to a survey.
18 January 2021
With digital banking gaining popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic, challenger banks on both sides of the Atlantic have seen surging customer growth over the last year.
15 January 2021
News/people
One of Sibos’ first panel sessions for 2021, ‘Make 2021 the year to improve your bank’s diversity’, saw panellists raise concern over the lack of diverse representation in financial services, particularly fintech.
12 January 2021
Salaries in the fintech and payments industry held up well despite turbulent conditions last year, seeing a decrease of only 1%, according to research by recruitment consultancy Headcount.
11 January 2021
A quarter of Brits used buy now, pay later services to fund Christmas shopping, setting up a £2.3 billion bill, according to Credit Karma.
08 January 2021
News/cloud
Consumer expectations, behaviour and payment preferences are and will continue to evolve at an accelerated rate.
07 January 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has proved a challenge for financial industry compliance staffers who have had to adjust monitoring and alert coverage to adapt to the remote work transition during extreme market volatility, according to a Nasdaq survey.
17 December 2020
Despite racking up millions of customers in recent years, digital challenger banks are still facing a lack of trust among Brits, most of whom do not even have faith that these new lenders will exist in a years' time, two new reports suggest.
10 December 2020
The search for meaningful data insights has highlighted the shortage of specialised data science skills within the financial services industry.
09 December 2020
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