Latest DevOps News: Finextra Research

How cloud enables banking transformation towards contextual finance

Companies adapting to the new normal brought on by the pandemic have been forced to undergo a digital shift toward contactless payments and a surge in online transactions. As a result, many are looking to Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) to enable innovative financial and payments services that can be embedded into digital apps and products. Further, the deployment of BaaS enables a faster time to market for more personalised propositions.

01 April 2021

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Commerzbank enters five-year relationship with Google Cloud

Commerzbank has entered a five-year partnership with Google, that will see more applicatons moved to the cloud and delivery of on-the-fly updates to software code.

29 March 2021

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Capital markets low code vendor Genesis snags $45 million in new funding

Genesis Global, the London-based supplier of a low code platform for capital markets development, has raised a $45m Series B led by Accel.

16 March 2021

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Finastra to rewrite developer terms to counter algorithmic bias

Finastra has published a five-point plan to tackle gender bias in algorithms.

04 March 2021

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BBVA taps Google Cloud Chronicle to build AI security platform

BBVA has today announced that it will be the first bank in Europe to deploy Google Cloud’s security analytics platform Chronicle and will use AI and machine learning to predict and prevent cyberattacks.

23 February 2021

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BIS and Swift to host ISO 20022 hackathon

The Bank for International Settlements and Swift are to run an ISO 20022 and API hackathon in a global search for new ways to make cross-border payments faster, cheaper and more transparent.

17 February 2021

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Nationwide partners Swindon Institute of Technology to deliver apprenticeships

Nationwide Building Society has teamed up with the new Swindon Institute of Technology to recruit apprentices in area such as cybersecurity, software development and DevOps.

11 February 2021

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Singapore fintech TranSwap to build Edinburgh R&D centre

Singapore-based cross-border payments platform TranSwap is making a move into the UK market with plans to open an Edinburgh research and development centre employing more than 50 people.

05 February 2021

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Goldman Sachs joins Open Source climate data initiative

Goldman Sachs has joined OS-Climate, a cross-industry initiative hosted by the Linux Foundation that is seeking to shift global investment toward zero-carbon emissions through the development of comprehensive Open Source data sets and evaluation tools.

04 February 2021

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Oxbury goes live on low code core banking system

Agricultural challenger bank Oxbury is the first client for a new cloud-based core banking platform developed by low code outfit Naqoda.

01 February 2021

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Elastacloud runs hackathon to devise sustainable finance solutions

The first Sustainable Finance hackathon run by data science specialists Elastacloud in association with Finextra and Responsible Risk, took place on 16 and 17 January bringing together 38 professionals from the finance and technology sectors.

29 January 2021

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Open Banking year three: Insights from the CMA9

The UK banking industry had its hands full in 2020 as institutions had to respond to lockdowns and other restrictions on business activity designed to curb the spread of Covid-19. What effect did this have on the ongoing adoption of Open Banking? In Finextra’s annual review, we look at how Open Banking has grown, what still needs to improve and what will happen next.

13 January 2021

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