Latest Transaction banking News: Finextra Research

Fintech Pavillion to host Europe's top startups at EBAday 2016

Finextra and the Euro Banking Association are inviting some of Europe's most promising early-stage startups to present their ideas to banking delegates attending EBAday 2016, Europe's leading payments and transaction banking event.

13 April 2016

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Fintech dominates African startup investment

Almost a third of the money invested in African startups was gobbled up by new fintech firms, according to research from Disrupt Africa

01 April 2016

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Singapore sets up fintech office for startups

The Singapore government is launching a dedicated office designed to help fintech startups set up in the country.

01 April 2016

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Putin adviser calls bitcoin a virus

Russian authorities' opposition to virtual currencies has been underlined after a presidential adviser referred to bitcoin as an internet joke and a virus and urged that it be outlawed.

31 March 2016

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Fintech boom will lead to 30% bank staff cuts - Citi

US bank Citi has forecast that the continued growth of fintech startups will mean 30% of bank staff will lose their jobs over the next ten years.

31 March 2016

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Barclays to close Texas tech centre

Barclays Bank is calling time on a technology centre it set up in McKinney, Texas less than two years after opening the site.

30 March 2016

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US regulator considers new framework for fintechs

A key US banking regulator is set to develop a framework for governing new fintech startups, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

29 March 2016

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Dutch central bank in digital currency plan

The Netherlands' central bank, De Nederlandsche bank (DNB) could be planning to develop its own digital currency based on blockchain technology.

29 March 2016

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Swift Nordics Regional Conference 2016 - Live Blog Day 2

The Swift Nordics Regional Conference 2016 in Oslo is focusing on how to effectively harness disruptive trends and deliver practical, real world change to the financial industry. Over the course of two days, the programme will examine challenges and opportunities in the Nordics and beyond, and assess how new technologies, changing business models and collaborative ways of working pave the way for the future.

09 March 2016

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Swift Nordics Regional Conference - Live Blog Day 1

The Swift Nordics Regional Conference 2016 in Oslo is focusing on how to effectively harness disruptive trends and deliver practical, real world change to the financial industry. Over the course of two days, the programme will examine challenges and opportunities in the Nordics and beyond, and assess how new technologies, changing business models and collaborative ways of working pave the way for the future.

08 March 2016

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Financial services set for a fundamental shake-up - Deloitte

The emergence of a raft of disruptive technologies and trends will fundamentally transform the financial industry over the next five to ten years, says Deloitte.

04 March 2016

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Registration opens for EBAday 2016

Registration has opened for EBAday 2016, Europe's pre-eminent payments conference and exhibition, which will be staged this year in Milan.

04 March 2016

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RBC tests distributed ledger for remittances and loyalty programme

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is the latest financial services giant to go public with its distributed ledger progress, confirming that it is working with Ripple on cross-border payments and experimenting with a blockchain-based loyalty platform.

26 February 2016

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Citi hits $1 trillion mark in institutional mobile banking

Citi has crossed the $1 trillion transaction value milestone in global institutional mobile banking just five years after it started letting clients handle their money through handsets.

24 February 2016

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Ripple boasts it can slash banks' global settlement costs

Ripple claims that its network and native currency could save banks up to 60% on costs associated with global interbank settlements.

23 February 2016

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JPMorgan tests blockchain for dollar transfers; strikes Starbucks deal

JPMorgan Chase is testing the use of distributed ledger technology to move US dollars between London and Tokyo, working with about 2200 clients on the trial ahead of possible live transactions later in the year.

23 February 2016

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Markit/Genpact KYC utility expands into Asia

Kyc.com, the joint venture data sharing utility between Markit and Genpact, is to extend its service to Hong Kong and Singapore and onboard new banking partner Standard Chartered.

18 February 2016

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UK alternative finance market slips into mainstream as institutional investors pile in

The UK's alternative finance market experienced its first year-on-year slowdown in growth in 2015, despite increased involvement by large institutional investors, according to figures published by Cambrdige University.

18 February 2016

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Bank cost-cutting driving uptake of financial industry utilities

Top tier banks are increasingly open to the adoption of utility-based shared service models to drive down costs and increase efficiency in back office and compliance functions, according to research conducted by Finextra.

17 February 2016

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Swift role in Target2 up for grabs; ECB ponders blockchain prospects

Interbank payments network Swift may lose its status as the sole network supplier to the European Central Bank's Target2 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) platform as the Eurosystem enters consultation on the future for payments and settlement across the eurozone.

16 February 2016