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Registration has opened for EBAday 2016, Europe's pre-eminent payments conference and exhibition, which will be staged this year in Milan.
04 March 2016
Royal Bank of Scotland is to explore the potential of using an AI bot to answer customer queries following a successful two-month trial of the technology among 1200 staff.
Digital challenger bank Mondo has raised £1 million in a record-breaking one minute and 36 seconds on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube.
03 March 2016
Singapore's United Overseas Bank is investing $10 million in Israeli equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd to extend financing to SMEs in South East Asia.
Recruitment for blockchain specialists at major banks and vendors is hotting up, as Visa, Thomson Reuters and BNY Mellon post ads on job boards.
International banking and asset management group Investec has acquired a stake in Australian fintech startup accelerator H2 for an undisclosed sum.
MasterCard is to use artificial intelligence technology from Rainbird - a startup identified by its Start Path accelerator programme.
Distributed ledger consortium R3 has connected 40 banks to five different blockchains and allowed them to facilitate issuance, secondary trading and redemption of a fixed income product in the largest known trial of the technology to date.
Israel is the latest country to get a dedicated fintech hub, as The Floor arrives in Tel Aviv promising to support startups disrupting the financial services industry.
A senior Bank of England official has floated the idea of using distributed ledger technology to enable individuals to hold digital currency accounts with the central bank, but has warned that such a move could prove damaging to commercial providers.
02 March 2016
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has established a 'Fintech Contact Point' as a dedicated channel to encourage businesses involved in the development and application of financial technology.
Digital challenger bank Mondo has set a new date for its £1 million crowdfunding campaign after a rush of applicants on Monday toppled the servers of platform provider Crowdcube.
International securities regulatory body Iosco has identified the disruptive threats from technological innovation as a key risk factor facing financial markets in 2016.
Two of Wall Street's most high-profile women have joined together to bring blockchain-based services to the financial markets as Sallie Crawcheck joins the board of Blythe Masters' distributed ledger outfit Digital Asset Holdings.
Lloyds Banking Group is on the hunt for a head of "innovation product launch and learn" to help lead its £1 billion digital charge.
01 March 2016
Advances in big data mining could open up whole new frontiers in financial services, says Standard Chartered’s global chief innovation officer, Anju Patwardhan
ANZ has recruited a former Google executive to its newly created role of group executive, digital banking, reporting directly to CEO Shayne Elliott.
The Korea Exchange is looking to use distributed ledger technology for a new OTC trading platform.
MasterCard is looking to take payments beyond cards and mobile phones, inviting fashion and design students to build new ways to pay.
29 February 2016
Crowdcube servers have been overwhelmed by a rush of people trying to join a £1 million crowdfunding round in digital banking startup Mondo.
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