Latest UK Fintech Week News: Finextra Research

Barclays steps up fintech engagement through Rainmaking partnership

Barclays has teamed up with corporate venture builder Rainmaking to develop a host of initiatives working with fintech firms around the world.

03 February 2022

News/people

Monzo offers staff three months’ paid leave

Monzo intends to revamp employee work-life balance by ensuring staff that have worked for the digital bank for over four years are eligible for sabbaticals lasting three months.

03 February 2022

News/regulation

FCA staff vote in favour of industrial action

Financial Conduct Authority employees have voted in favour of industrial action over proposed cuts to pay and conditions.

02 February 2022

News/security

Alarmed by 'fraud epidemic', UK MPs push for legislative change

UK MPs are calling on the Government to legislate on mandatory reimbursement by banks to victims of authorised push payment fraud and new rules to bring Big Tech to heel over social media scams.

02 February 2022

News/payments

Ripple partners Modulr to improve payments into UK and Europe

Blockchain and crypto giant Ripple has joined forces with British firm Modulr to enable "seamless" payments into the UK and Europe from the rest of the world.

02 February 2022

News/payments

Lloyds signs first retailer for A2A payments API

Car dealership JCT600 has become the first retailer to use Lloyds’ new PayFrom Bank account-to-account payment product, displacing plastic cards at the online checkout.

28 January 2022

News/payments

Contactless transactions surge in the UK

New data from Barclaycard, which sees nearly half of the nation’s credit and debit card transactions, reveals that 91.1% of all eligible card transactions in 2021 were made contactlessly, with the total value of contactless payments made increasing by 40.2 per cent, year-on-year.

26 January 2022

News/payments

Klarna launches physical BNPL card in the UK

Klarna is releasing a physical card in the UK, giving shoppers the opportunity to buy now, pay later in bricks and mortar stores.

26 January 2022

News/people

Monzo recruits for new investment and wealth unit

Monzo is recruiting for a general manager to build and run a new investments and wealth business.

25 January 2022

News/regulation

New cyber attack laws proposed by UK Govt

The UK is consulting on new measures for greater resilience among British businesses’ cyber security. This move is part of a £2.6 billion National Cyber Strategy and comes after high profile cyber-attacks.

21 January 2022

Should we stop trying to make Open Banking happen when it’s not going to happen?

Long read/UK Fintech Week

Níamh Curran Senior Reporter at Finextra

Should we stop trying to make Open Banking happen when it’s not going to happen?

21 January 2022

Open Banking year four: Beyond the CMA9 and towards Open Finance

Long read/UK Fintech Week

Madhvi Sonia Head of Content at Finextra

Open Banking year four: Beyond the CMA9 and towards Open Finance

13 January 2022

What’s driving switching mania in Britain – and will it continue?

Long read/UK Fintech Week

Marco Mottadelli Head of Global Brokerage at Fineco Bank

What’s driving switching mania in Britain – and will it continue?

29 December 2021

Innovation in service: Supercharging Jersey’s sustainable finance offering

Long read/UK Fintech Week

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Innovation in service: Supercharging Jersey’s sustainable finance offering

13 December 2021

Finextra TV/sustainable

Sustainability Studio born from the SF. Live workshop series

Richard Conway, CEO, Elastacloud, & Darshna Shah, Lead Data Scientist, Elastacloud speak to Richard Peers before SF. Live about their Sustainability Studio, born from the SF. Live workshop series and why the founders decided to build an ESG product.

30 November 2021

Finextra TV/sustainable

How Actuaries are changing the way they calculate climate risk

Louise Pryor, President, IFoA, Chair, London Climate Change Partnership, and Director, Ecology Building Society, speaks to Richard Peers about the role of Actuaries as the mathematicians calculating climate risk and how the pricing of risk can transform climate change funding from Banks and Insurers to fund transformation in the real economy.

19 November 2021