Innovation

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The Evolution of Open Banking beyond Europe

Jim Wadsworth, SVP Open Banking at Mastercard spoke to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2020 in Berlin about how things have moved on with Open Banking and the part regulation has played moving European intervention along. We learn about the impact innovation and collaboration has had on the merchants payments industry, areas where we are seeing the greatest growth such as India and what progress we are making in areas where cash-based transactions still reign.

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Rabo Frontier Ventures commits to Speedinvest 3

Rabo Frontier Ventures (“RFV") has committed to Speedinvest’s new fund (Si3). With its latest fund Speedinvest aims to build a portfolio of 80 to 100 investments in European technology startups.

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Mastercard to recruit 1500 tech staff for new Dublin campus

Mastercard is to create over 1500 jobs in Dublin over the next three-to-five years, with the opening of a new tech campus in Leopardstown.

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The art of Wardley Mapping Sustainable business goals

Mapping Sustainable business goals to a technology strategy is as much art as it is computer science. Matthew Adams Founder at Endjin the brains behind the Ocean Mind story, sat down with Richard Peers to discuss how they help organisations do just that using Wardley Mapping. The two then dive into the detail of the role of data which is so crucial to Sustainable Finance.

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Sound advice on Sustainable Investing

William Armitage, Head of Business Development at Route2, sat down with Richard Peers to discuss Route2’s role advising both corporates and investors. If Sustainable Investing is about understanding the data that informs the value of the underlying asset, then Route2’s 'Total Capital Accounting' approach for evaluating and understanding societal impact and its connection to value creation and value erosion, has to be an approach worth greater consideration. Will talks through one of Route2’s corporate case studies The Crown Estate, and offers fascinating insight into how the many sources of data they consume are advancing their Investor Analytics solution.

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Tipping point to a low carbon world via Sustainable Finance

Nicole Anderson, Founder, Managing Partner of The Redsand Group speaks with Richard Peers about the new fund she is launching, expanding on the green and impact FinTech use cases and ventures she has built over the last 8 years. Nicole expands upon how we are on the tipping point of the most significant innovation imperative facing financial services in its own transition to be the enabler of a low carbon world via Sustainable Finance.

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BIS appoints Innovation Hub heads in Singapore and Switzerland

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) today announced two key appointments to the BIS Innovation Hub, a new initiative designed to support central bank collaboration on new financial technology.

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Bank of Singapore names Le Cotonnec chief data and innovation officer

Bank of Singapore has appointed Celine Le Cotonnec to the newly created position of chief data and innovation officer.

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A Segment of One: The new reality

Consumers now have access to all the information they need to define, compare and select the financial products and services that best serve their individual needs.

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Emerging Payments Association picks Luxembourg as EU home

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), the leading London-based professional association of payment players, which brings together more than 150 operators from all areas of the payment value chain, is expanding its European Union network from Luxembourg.

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Australia extends fintech sandbox remit after long wait

By passing the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 2) Bill 2019 on Monday, the government has extended the scope and timeframe fintechs can spend on the existing framework.

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Nium opens innovation lab for fintech entrepreneurs

NIUM, one of world’s largest Global Financial Infrastructure Platform provider today announced the launch of “BOLT”, its unique platform to boost innovation in the global Fintech space, and help entrepreneurs speed their products / services to market.

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InComm opens innovation studio

Payments technology company InComm announced today the launch of Go StudioTM, its innovation hub dedicated to developing emerging technologies for customer-centric products and solutions.

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Report finds Bristol & Bath is a UK hotspot for fintech entrepreneurs

The Bristol & Bath region has one of the strongest FinTech ecosystems in the UK with a high number of fast-growing FinTech startups and scaleups, according to a new report from regional strategy consulting firm Whitecap Consulting.

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EBAday 2020 to address 'the turning point in payments transformation'

Registration has opened for EBAday 2020, Europe's premier payments and transaction banking conference, taking place this year in The Hague between 19-20 May.

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FinTech Australia signs collaboration agreement with Geneva Fintech

The peak financial technology (fintech) industry bodies in Australia and Switzerland have signed a memorandum of understanding to help drive increased collaboration as well as knowledge sharing between the two growing fintech markets.

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Bank of America builds patent mountain

Last year, Bank of America earned 418 patents from the United States Patent Office – more than in any other year in the history of the company. This represents a 31 percent increase over 2018.

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Investors unconvinced by banks' digital strategies

Only a quarter of investors are confident that financial services firms' digital transformation strategies will be effective, according to a report from Oliver Wyman.

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Goldman mulls industry-specific financial cloud

Goldman Sachs is weighing the potential to build an external cloud platform for use by other financial institutions, according to a memo seen by Yahoo Finance.

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Dublin City University launches online fintech course

Following on from the announcement of a global partnership with major online learning platform, FutureLearn.com, DCU has now launched a new online accredited short course on Fintech, with details on Fintech - Financial Innovation unveiled today.