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NextGen Banking London - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of NextGen Banking London. The event promises to explore what the AI revolution means for banks - and what financial institutions need to do to benefit from AI, and ensure their customers do so as well.

17 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Emirates NBD joins CCRManager trade finance platform

Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region today announced that it has joined the rapidly growing community of members on CCRManager, a fintech platform supporting the origination and distribution of trade assets.

16 May 2018

News/Transaction banking

Deutsche Bank acquires Indian Open Banking software house Quantiguous Solutions

Deutsche Bank has acquired Mumbai-based startup Quantiguous Solutions to help build an Open Banking platform connecting corporate clients to third party partners and its global transaction banking franchise.

15 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Mitsubishi to pilot real funds, cross-border payment over RippleNet

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), MUFG Bank, Ltd. (MUFG Bank), Bank of Ayudhya PCL (Krungsri), a Thailand-based subsidiary of MUFG Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank (Standard Chartered), today jointly announced the commencement of a pilot test for moving real funds over RippleNet, with the objective of making cross-border payments more convenient and further improving the capital efficiency of corporate groups.

14 May 2018

News/Transaction banking

HSBC claims blockchain breakthrough for trade finance

HSBC and ING bank have announced the successful execution of a trade finance transaction using R3's Corda blockchain platform.

14 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Finastra appoints new CRO

Finastra today announced the appointment of Elona Ruka-Wright as its new Chief Risk Officer.

14 May 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

IT implications and the need to pivot

Eleni Coldrey, Business Development Director, Europe, Equinix, talks about how well positioned financial services are to deliver their services digitally and through mobile technology, what challenges Open Banking and the sharing of data through API networks creates, and what issues institutions looking go digital face in terms of scale and cost.

14 May 2018

News/Transaction banking

JP Morgan reshuffles management to target algo traders

JP Morgan has announced changes to its senior management designed to cater for the growing number of trading counterparties using algorithms and electronic platforms.

11 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

FinTech Scotland recruits Deloitte for expansion plan

The body representing Scotland’s thriving financial technology community, Fintech Scotland, has today announced it has entered a key strategic partnership with business advisory firm Deloitte.

11 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Central banks urge industry wide take-up of strategy to improve wholesale payments security

The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), the global standard setter for payment, clearing, settlement and related arrangements, urges stakeholders to pursue a common strategy to improve the security of wholesale payments that involve banks, financial market infrastructures and other financial institutions.

08 May 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Liquidity Express: Innovation at its best

Mark Smith, Head of Global Liquidity, Global Transaction Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, talks about the new product Liquidity Express, what it does and how it was developed, how will it help clients with their operations and what the top liquidity priorities for corporates this year are.

03 May 2018

News/Transaction banking

Brexit, cyber-resilience, Open Banking to the fore at Swift London forum

The Swift Business Forum London recently took place at the city's Tobacco Dock. With a record 1,300 registrations, the key themes of the day included innovation in financial services, community collaboration, and cyber resilience. And of course, being hosted in the UK, Brexit and its potential impacts also came up in discussion

02 May 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Going live with real client solutions

Jan Kupfer, Head of Corporate & Investment Banking Germany, Member of the Management Board, UniCredit Bank AG, talks about the main challenge clients are facing today, what the key drivers for innovation are and what to expect for 2018.

02 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

UK and US banks in danger of losing SME customers to digital competition

A new study from financial services technology leader FIS™ (NYSE: FIS) has identified key gaps in the performance of larger U.S. and U.K. banks in serving the needs of their critical small and mid-sized business (SMB) client base.

02 May 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

Mansion House Consulting hires Jitu Parmar from Swift to advisory role

Mansion House Consulting (MHC), an award-winning IT and technology consultancy specialising in the Financial Services sector, today announced the hiring of Jitu Parmar as a Strategic Advisor.

30 April 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

More data management by the buy-side

Marion Leslie, Managing Director, Enterprise, Thomson Reuters, talks about the current buy-side trends from an enterprise data perspective, how customers describe their needs given these market trends, and what customers can do to adapt and evolve in order to drive future success.

27 April 2018

Company update/Transaction banking

DBS launches real-time cross-border payment tracking for all corporate and SME clients

More than 200,000 of DBS’ corporate and SME clients will now be able to benefit from better cashflow visibility through real-time cross-border payment tracking.

27 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

Top European banks gather to debate the merits of AI

Finextra has assembled an all-star cast of sponsors and speakers for next month's NextGen Banking London: the AI Revolution event, shedding light on a technology billed by Gartner as the most disruptive to engulf the enterprise over the next ten years.

27 April 2018

Finextra TV/Transaction banking

Regulatory Intelligence in 2018

Richard Anderson, Head of Product Management, Regulatory Intelligence, Thomson Reuters, talks about how the company's product strategy for 2018 has been influenced by the current regulatory landscape, what contribution content has to play in the role of RegTech and what the key challenges are facing Regulatory Intelligence in 2018.

26 April 2018

News/Transaction banking

BBVA uses Ether and Hyperledger to perform corporate loan deal

BBVA has closed a EUR75 million corporate loan deal with technology partner Indra, performing the complete process from negotiation to the signing of the loan over a mix of different public and private blockchain-based platforms.

26 April 2018