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News/crypto
A well-designed central bank digital currency may enhance rather than weaken financial stability, according to a working paper from the US Treasury's Office of Financial Research.
09 August 2022
The Bank of Thailand has announced the launch of its retail Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot, set to run from late 2022 to mid-2023.
05 August 2022
News/payments
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) could be the answer to the thousand-year search for the holy grail of cross-border payments, according to a new paper from the ECB.
03 August 2022
News/retail
Australian neobank Up Bank, has launched savings service Maybuy. Maybuy is designed as an alternative to Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) products which have become increasingly popular in recent years.
01 August 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine will cause disruption to cross-border payment systems and could, in conjunction with technological advances, challenge the dominance of the Swift network, predicts a paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
29 July 2022
News/security
Research by ACI Worldwide has found that one in ten UK adults fell victim to online fraud in the past four years.
27 July 2022
News/sustainable
In June 2022, banking giant NatWest launched Carbon Planner, a service designed to help businesses in reducing their carbon footprint. To learn more about the solution, Finextra spoke with head of climate change at NatWest, James Close.
22 July 2022
News/wholesale
Corporates' demands for digital services are leading a majority of corporate banks to look in-house when building their technology stack, according to recently published research.
20 July 2022
Financial services firms are falling short in their efforts to monitor employees' use of social media messaging despite ear-marking communications surveillance as an investment priority, according to recent research.
19 July 2022
Research conducted by Temenos has concluded that two out of three adults have used embedded finance services during the checkout process online in the past year.
06 July 2022
More than a third of UK shoppers have been unable to complete an e-commerce transaction because of new strong customer authentication (SCA) rules, according to a survey for Signifyd.
News/inclusion
New research from Mastercard details discrimination of non-binary individuals in their financial experiences.
01 July 2022
News/covid-19
The Global COVID-19 Fintech Impact and Resilience Study, published by the Cambridge Centre of Alterative Finance (CCAF), the World Bank Group, and the World Economic Forum, has concluded that the fintech industry was more resilient to the pandemic than previously stated in an earlier report from December 2020.
28 June 2022
Buy-side firms are having to user a greater number of ESG data providers in order to make up for the lack of corporate disclosures around sustainability.
27 June 2022
News/regulation
Tensions between the traditional banking sector and the increasingly popular buy now, pay later industry spilled over this week as Klarna hit back at Barclays' research on BNPL regulation, calling it "mind-boggling" and irresponsible".
24 June 2022
Forrester Research has released a report analysing 13 different mobile banking apps across EMEA on user experience and functionality, concluding that Intesa Sanpaolo and BBVA lead in both accessibility and efficiency.
PSD2 should be merged with the Electronic Money Directive, says the European Banking Authority (EBA) in response to the EC's call for feedback on the directive.
23 June 2022
Following a successful pilot, Edinburgh-based cryptocurrency platform Zumo has received government funding to continue its work on decarbonising crypto.
08 June 2022
CCG’s second annual US banking study titled ‘The Banking Battleground 2022: Finding the opportunities,’ has found that US bank executives are showing strong interest in pursuing and offering Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) options.
20 May 2022
Nationwide Building Society says that the introduction of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) rules in March is helping it stop 2000 cases of online card fraud a month.
11 May 2022
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