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News/crypto
Existing point-of-sale terminals in the UK could be used to initiate digital pound payments, according to research from the Bank of England.
14 June 2024
News/identity
The UK is home to nearly three million "Frankenstein" identities stitched together by fraudsters out of real and made up personal details, according to researchers who warn of a potential multi-billion pound hit to the economy.
13 June 2024
News/ai
Pay.UK says a fraud detection pilot involving Visa has exceed expectations, suggesting that it could save the country's economy over £112 million a year.
30 May 2024
News/markets
Adopting distributed ledger technology in the pursuit of faster settlement times could hit liquidity and increase transaction costs, warns research from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).
23 May 2024
News/retail
Half of young Brits have been left frustrated after finding their local branch closed when they needed it, according to research from Nationwide.
20 May 2024
News/startups
Optimism is returning to Europe's fintech sector, suggests new research from MHP Group which shows that more than three quarters of firms expect their business to grow in the next 12 months.
16 May 2024
HSBC has added a feature to its mobile app in the UK to help customers identify, plan and manage their saving goals.
14 May 2024
News/sustainable
According to a climate scenario analysis by the Federal Reserve, American banks are set to experience challenges in predicting the impact of climate change on their loan books due data and modelling difficulties.
10 May 2024
News/security
Global mobile banking trojan attacks on Android users grew by a third in 2023, while cryptocurrency-related phishing also saw a sharp increase, according to a Kaspersky report.
Researchers from Elliptic, IBM Watson and MIT have used AI to detect money laundering on the Bitcoin blockchain.
02 May 2024
HSBC and PayPal are among the founding member of a new working group investigating the adoption of quantum-safe cryptography in the payments industry.
29 April 2024
News/inclusion
What is ethical risk? Ethical risk consists of the risks that could impede an organisation’s ability to live up to its ethical values and standards which impact consumer trust, reputation, and financial performance.
26 April 2024
Visa has teamed up with blockchain data provider Allium Labs to build a dashboard that helps people make sense of stablecoin activity.
NextGen Nordics, Finextra’s annual payments event, kicked off on April 23 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden, bringing together an array of experts and leaders in the Nordics payments industry.
23 April 2024
Fintech is back on top as the UK’s most-funded startup sector according to new analysis from HSBC Innovation Banking and Dealroom.
17 April 2024
The Bank of England has been heavily criticised by a former chairman of the US Federal Reserve for relying on outdated technology for its economic forecasts.
16 April 2024
UK startups outside of London should have more than one founder, ensure gender diversity and join an accelerator, according to the findings of a recently published report.
Building on open banking to enable wider data sharing across financial services products including savings, mortgages and insurance, could unlock an extra £30.5 billion GDP a year for the UK, says a paper from Innovate Finance and KPMG.
15 April 2024
Financial services firms have been hit with $12bn in losses over the last two decades as a result of cyber attacks, according to a recently published report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
10 April 2024
Global funding in the fintech sector has fallen to its lowest level since 2017, according to newly published research.
08 April 2024
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