Latest Innovation News: Finextra Research

Stone & Chalk unites Melbourne and Sydney with launch of 'mega-hub'

Asia’s largest fintech innovation hub, Stone & Chalk, is uniting fintech across the eastern seaboard with the launch of a new national capability across its new home at the Goods Shed North in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD innovation precinct, and its residency in the Sydney Startup Hub.

12 July 2018

News/Innovation

Banks stand to reap $512 billion revenue boost from 'intelligent automation'

With banks the world over exploring the business case for AI and robotic automation, a new report estimates that hundreds of billions of dollars in additional revenue may be up for grabs as the focus moves away from costs savings to income generation.

12 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

FinTech Hive deluged with applications

FinTech Hive, the first and largest financial technology accelerator in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, is gearing up to start its 2018 edition in September, in partnership with Accenture.

11 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

BBVA selects Open talent finalists

BBVA has announced the finalists of Open Talent, the world’s biggest fintech competition.

11 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Turkish government sets up fintech task force

To help in fulfilling the objectives of making Turkey a global hub for the FinTech industry and improving the FinTech ecosystem in the country, a FinTech task force was launched.

11 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Frost & Sullivan collaborates with Seoul Fintech Lab

Frost & Sullivan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) to support activities such as commercialization, investment promotion, and support for advancement of Fintech startups into the global market.

11 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Fintech Europe selects nine startups for inaugural batch

Fintech Europe, Plug and Play's newest innovation platform, based out of Frankfurt, Germany, announced today the nine startups selected for its first batch.

11 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Montreal's Holt Fintech Accelerator welcomes new partners

The success of the Holt FinTech Accelerator is contagious; major high-quality partners have joined this major project for the FinTech industry.

11 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

The Mobey Forum charts strategic options for Open Banking

Mobey Forum, the global industry association empowering banks and financial institutions to shape the future of digital services, today publishes a new report, entitled ‘Producers, Distributors, Aggregators: Strategic Options for Banks in the Post-PSD2 Age’.

11 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Railsbank wins EUR100,000 venture capital award

Railsbank, a leading UK-based open-banking and regtech platform, and fellow London based startup Cybertonica, have won offers of €100,000 venture capital investment from MiddleGame Ventures.

11 July 2018

News/Innovation

The Big Data dilemma

How can we ensure that Big Data does not make us the prisoners of technology? That's the question posed by Charles Randall, chair of the Financial Conduct Authority and Payment System Regulator at a Reuters Newsmaker event in London.

11 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

A strong hub, augmented intelligence and open banking key for payment processing

Raj Venkatraman, Head of Payments Solutions Sales & Dominique DeConinck, Europe Watson FSS Sales leader, Industry Platforms, IBM, talk at EBAday 2018 about whether having a finely tuned payments hub is enough to keep up with the pace of change set within the payments ecosystem, how AI can bring new value and services to the banks, and what steps IBM are taking in the Open banking arena.

10 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Championing financial inclusion and helping the Unstoppables

Norris Koppel, CEO & Founder, Monese, speaks openly about how his personal experience inspired him to address the issue of people cut off from banking services. Hear how he has grown a successful Fintech to drive financial inclusion

10 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Mash joins Luxembourg innovation hub

Mash, the market leading European payment and lending company, has become the first Innovation Partner of the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (The LHoFT Foundation), Luxembourg’s dedicated financial technology innovation hub.

09 July 2018

News/Innovation

Flux ready for take-off on Barclays Launchpad; scores trial with Costa Coffee

The Costa coffee chain is to begin a trial of the Flux cashback rewards platform in its London outlets. The news comes as Flux goes live on Barclays Launchpad, the UK bank's project for testing new features with real customers.

09 July 2018

News/Innovation

Banca Carige and IBM create $500 million joint venture

Italy's Banca Carige has outsourced its digital transformation programme to IBM under a $500 million joint venture dubbed Dock.

09 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Corporate liquidity management and the Euro-payments arena

Henrik Lang, Head of Liquidity, GTS EMEA at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, talks at EBAday 2018 about the key themes of the event, whether the speed of account of rationalisation has been strong in the Europe payments arena since SEPA and what will be the impact of RTP on liquidity management.

06 July 2018

Finextra TV/Innovation

Changes in domestic and cross border payments

Jerry Norton , Head of Strategy, Financial Services, CGI, talks at EBAday 2018 about the top areas of discussion within the industry today, how the payments market is changing international and domestically, and what considerations need to be had when creating an API.

06 July 2018

News/Innovation

HSBC highlights the six new banking careers of the future

HSBC is preparing for the ongoing revolution in banking, highlighting six new types of jobs that will be necessary to forge a career in a digitally-enabled financial services industry.

06 July 2018

Company update/Innovation

Alliance challenges FCA to do more to support professionalism in UK financial services

A financial services Alliance with a combined global membership of 200,000 is challenging the FCA to do more to support professionalism in UK financial services.

05 July 2018