Latest Digital Transformation News: Finextra Research

The Future of Regulation 2022

07 February 2022 1112 downloads

Company update/startups

Lloyds: Small businesses could unlock £75bn for UK economy by improving digital capability

If small businesses with low digital skills were to further increase their digital capability the UK economy could benefit by as much as £75 billion* according to the latest Lloyds Bank Business Digital Index.

03 February 2022

Research/Digital Transformation

Getting tech right: Selecting the right software products to fulfil the digital demands of banking

31 January 2022 422 downloads

News/cloud

Lunar taps Thought Machine for core banking revamp

Nordic fintech Lunar has selected Thought Machine - the same cloud native core banking technology used by JP Morgan - to modernise its core systems and develop new services across the region.

18 January 2022

Research/Digital Transformation

Open Banking Europe 2022 - What’s next for Open Banking?

18 January 2022 1330 downloads

Research/Digital Transformation

Will banks use digital security as a post-pandemic differentiator?

17 January 2022 376 downloads

News/payments

Goodbox-Mulberry partnership enables contactless donations

Digital fundraising company, GoodBox, has announced a partnership with Mulberry, to supply contactless donation devices to stores across the UK.

31 December 2021

News/payments

Paysend-Tencent partnership enables Weixin transfers

UK-based payment ecosystem, Paysend, has just announced a partnership with the fintech arm of internet and technology company, Tencent. The joint venture will allow people to receive money through Weixin – China’s version of WeChat.

30 December 2021

News/payments

Bahamas’ central bank moves to eliminate cheques

The central bank of the Bahamas has just announced plans to eliminate the use of domestic cheques by 2024.

29 December 2021

Research/Digital Transformation

The Future of Digital Banking in Asia 2022

22 December 2021 1017 downloads

News/startups

UK tech sector enjoys best year on record

In terms of venture capital (VC) investment, the number of jobs, and the rate of unicorns emerging, 2021 has been the UK technology sector’s best year yet, says research from the Digital Economy Council.

20 December 2021

Research/Digital Transformation

The Reinvention of Card Payments

17 December 2021 1208 downloads

News/devops

APImetrics and Finextra launch open access fintech, open banking and crypto API data dashboard

Finextra Research and APImetrics - the industry’s only analytics-driven API performance solution provider - have collaborated to offer the first open access dashboard that will monitor real-world performance of fintech, open banking, PSD2 payments and crypto APIs.

13 December 2021

Research/Digital Transformation

Future-Ready Payments Solutions: Remaining competitive with reusable technology

09 December 2021 788 downloads

Research/Digital Transformation

Don’t go extinct - How Wealth Managers can remain relevant

29 November 2021 336 downloads

Research/Digital Transformation

Facing up to the Future: Biometric Automation in Banking

12 November 2021 460 downloads

Company update/cloud

Backbase utilises Microsoft Cloud to offer integrated financial services cloud stack

Backbase, the global Engagement Banking Platform provider, today announced its global collaboration with Microsoft to help financial institutions move into the Engagement Banking Era with the first fully integrated financial services cloud stack. The collaboration, which sees Backbase’s Engagement Banking Platform serving in the engagement layer within Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, helps financial institutions re-architect banking around their customers and accelerate their digital transformation.

10 November 2021

Research/Digital Transformation

The Future of Wealth Management 2022

10 November 2021 1113 downloads

News/crypto

Singapore Fintech Festival 2021: ‘We haven’t even fuelled the DeFi rocket’

During Singapore Fintech Festival’s panel session ‘Decentralised Finance: Redefining the Architecture’, ChainLink co-founder Sergey Nazarov and Celo CEO and co-founder Rene Reinsberg examine the forces currently driving the decentralised finance (DeFi) sector and how financial institutions should be approaching their DeFi and cryptocurrency strategy.

08 November 2021

News/crypto

Deloitte: 64% of young collectors are interested in NFTs

Deloitte has just released the 7th edition of its Art & Finance report, which reveals that the majority of young collectors (those under 35) believe blockchain technology, big data, analytics, and artificial intelligence will transform the way business is conducted in the art world.

05 November 2021