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Deutsche Bank to spend €13bn on tech amid massive job cuts

Deutsche Bank has announced swingeing job cuts as part of a radical overhaul of its operations that will also see it spend €13bn on new technology over the next four years.

08 July 2019

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Carney positive on Facebook's Libra; says BofE could open up balance sheet to new players

Facebook's new digital currency, Libra, could "substantially improve financial inclusion and dramatically lower the costs of domestic and cross border payments," Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said in a speech during which he also revealed the central bank could open up access to its balance sheet to new payment providers.

21 June 2019

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Banks falling behind in digital transformation efforts

Despite investing more than $1trn globally in new technology over the last three years, the majority of banks have yet to see any financial boost from their digital transformation programmes.

20 June 2019

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India to review payments data storage rule

The Indian central bank has been persuaded to reconsider a controversial law that mandates payments data should not be allowed to leave India's borders.

18 June 2019

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Credit Agricole sets €15bn tech budget through 2022

French bank Credit Agricole (CA) is set to spend €15 billion on new technology over the next four years as part of its digital transformation.

06 June 2019

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Emirates NBD taps AWS for AI-enabled bank

Emirates NBD is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) machine learning and data analytics technology to help build a "bank of the future".

30 May 2019

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HSBC opens London and Toronto data and innovation labs

HSBC has opened two data and innovation labs - in London and Toronto - that will house specialists in areas such as analytics and robotics working on products and services for the bank's global banking and markets (GBM) unit.

23 May 2019

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Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day two

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2019, in Panama City. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can accelerate digital transformation.

22 May 2019

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Finastra opens up to bank and fintech developers with APIs, apps and integration

Ahead of its FusionONE open banking developer conference this week, Finastra has revealed its new FusionFabric.cloud platform for mortgage and loan workflows, deepening its partnership with Microsoft. The vendor has also contracted with nbkc bank to build a conversational banking app on the platform, and released some 61 new APIs to the developer community.

20 May 2019

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Microsoft Build 2019: What stands out for fintech developers?

Thousands of developers, software engineers and students gathered at Microsoft Build 2019 to learn about the latest advances across technologies critical to the future of banking, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, the Internet of Things and Mixed Reality for cloud or edge computing.

10 May 2019

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Deutsche Bourse signs cloud deal with Microsoft

Deutsche Bourse is to accelerate the migration of its workloads to the cloud after closing a deal with Microsoft for its cloud services over Azure and office collaboration tools.

08 May 2019

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Digitisation and collaboration on Ireland's agenda

The SWIFT Business Forum Ireland 2019 explored how Irish financial institutions can deliver a truly digital customer experience through a spirit of collaboration, while staying secure against evolving cyber threats.

07 May 2019

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