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South Africa's payments body has released a standard to enable biometrics to be used on payment cards and to herald what it hopes will be an industry-wide roll-out of fingerprint banking.
27 July 2016
Thailand's central bank has called for more regulation of the country's growing fintech sector in order to prevent systemic risk and protect consumers.
22 July 2016
The number of internet banking logins made by Brits each day fell last year, as customers continued to migrate to apps, BBA research shows.
UK bank Standard Chartered is planning to roll out its video banking service to more than five million users across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
21 July 2016
Nearly half of North American bank customers are open to ditching human expertise for automated, computer-generated advice and services, according to a survey from Accenture.
01 July 2016
Lloyds Banking Group is shutting 23 branches later this year and cutting around 640 jobs, many of them in technology operations.
29 June 2016
Deutsche Bank is shutting 188 of its German branches and cutting around 3000 jobs as it doubles down on its digital overhaul strategy.
23 June 2016
TD Bank is facing a class action lawsuit seeking $25 million on behalf of customers who used its coin counting machines, which were recently retired over concerns that they were short-changing users.
Bank of America is to slash about 8000 jobs from its consumer banking division and further trim its branch network as the digital revolution in financial services gathers pace.
15 June 2016
Despite the rise of digital channels, 80% of Commonwealth Bank of Australia's high-value customers still use branches, meaning that the firm's expensive bricks-and-mortar operation is set to stay in place for years to come.
02 June 2016
HSBC is to shutter half of its branches in India as part of an ongoing global initiative to shift more business to digital channels.
20 May 2016
TD Bank is retiring its fleet of more than 1000 Penny Arcade coin-counting machines following reports that they were short-changing customers.
19 May 2016
HSBC is to axe 850 British IT jobs as it embarks on a three-year restructuring plan that will eliminate 8000 positions at the UK arm of the global bank.
16 May 2016
Britain's major banks closed more than 600 branches across the UK in the last year, according to figures obtained by the BBC.
13 May 2016
Royal Bank of Scotland is to axe another 200 jobs from its retail network, in what has been described by union bosses as a "year-long cull of local branches across the country".
12 May 2016
Citi is deploying beacon technology from Gimbal at a number of its Smart Banking branches in Manhattan
09 May 2016
With many of its members closing large numbers of branches, trade association the British Banking Association is launching an independent review into the protocol on minimising the impact of closures on customers.
06 May 2016
As they increasingly bank online and through their mobiles, many Europeans say that they would leave providers that do not offer up-to-date technology, a survey from Fujitsu shows.
04 May 2016
The Royal Bank of Scotland has warned that it could miss a deadline set by European regulators to spin off its 300-strong Williams & Glyn branch network because of technology issues.
28 April 2016
Scotiabank co-chief information officer Kyle McNamara talks to Finextra about how the bank is adapting to the digital future, going mobile, using analytics and working with the local fintech community.
15 April 2016
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