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London-based digital payments company Revolut is applying for a licence in Luxembourg in order to mitigate any fallout from Brexit.
24 September 2018
A spate of online banking glitches has hit the UK's leading high street banks, leading inevitably to discussions of resilience and operational risk in the industry.
21 September 2018
New York’s Attorney General (AG) has reported three crypto exchanges to the state’s regulator for possible violations of digital currency violations.
19 September 2018
Abu Dhabi Global Markets (ADGM), the emirate's international financial centre, has further underlined its fintech ambitions with the launch of a digital sandbox.
18 September 2018
New York state has filed a lawsuit against the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) over a decision to allow fintech companies to apply for national banking charters.
17 September 2018
UK-based Ebury has become the first fintech to be a full and active participant on gpi, Swift's cross-border payments scheme.
30 August 2018
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reportedly enlisted the help of challenger bank Starling in its efforts to develop a digital bank of its own.
28 August 2018
India-based digital payments firm Paytm has announced the launch of AI Cloud India, a platform designed to help developers, startups and small businesses create their own payment-related apps and services.
21 August 2018
Cambodia has become the latest country to launch a national body designed to foster more fintech collaboration with the launch of the Cambodia Fintech Association (CFA).
17 August 2018
The New York State department of Financial Services says that online lenders should be subject to the same consumer protection laws, usury limits and licensing and supervision rules as traditional financial institutions.
12 July 2018
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is planning to spend $3.2bn on technology this year in a bid to attract new customers looking for more digital banking services.
14 June 2018
The UK government has launched a series of initiatives designed to attract more foreign fintech experts to work for UK startups and to encourage those same startups to remain in the UK rather than uproot to an EU-based neighbouring jurisdiction.
13 June 2018
Europe's biggest bank HSBC is planning to invest between $15-$17bn in new technology as part of a new growth strategy announced by its chief executive John Flint.
12 June 2018
Ireland's state-owned economic development agency Enterprise Ireland has announced the launch of a €750,000 Competitive Start Fund for promising fintech startups.
Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2018, in Miami. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can seize the opportunities that are emerging.
06 June 2018
Big Tech's interest in financial services is once again coming under the microscope, with both a top Federal Reserve staffer and senior European bankers voicing concerns that the likes of Amazon could be stepping onto their turf without proper oversight.
24 May 2018
A UK challenger bank aimed at the SME business sector has opted to give up its banking licence in order to spend more time developing its IT infrastructure prior to its launch.
06 April 2018
Retailer Walmart is pushing further into the financial sector through a service that lets people transfer money from its US stores to 200 countries.
03 April 2018
British money management chatbot Plum has launched an investment tool that lets users choose where their money goes.
26 March 2018
Online student loan specialist CommonBond has closed a $50 million Series D funding round led by the venture arm of American bank Fifth Third.
21 March 2018
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