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News/Transaction banking
JPMorgan Chase has created a digital token, the JPM Coin, that will be used to instantly settle transactions between the bank's wholesale payments business clients, according to CNBC.
14 February 2019
The Italian Banking Association (ABI) is moving into the 'pre-production phase' for its blockchain-based interbank reconciliation project.
13 February 2019
Standard Chartered has struck an agreement with Linklogis to use the Chinese B2B player's blockchain-enabled supply chain platform to improve business financing opportunities and deepen client relationships in China.
12 February 2019
News/regulation
Interbank messaging network Swift is to open its KYC Registry to corporates, providing a central hub for document exchange with multiple banking partners and eliminating duplication and ineffeciency.
News/security
The New York Federal Reserve is to assist Bangladesh Bank in a legal challenge to recoup $81 million stolen in a massive cyber heist in 2016.
04 February 2019
UK-based online business finance marketplace Funding Options is launching in the Netherlands with the backing of local bank ING.
Real-time euro payments are already here – but there’s wider work to do to serve corporate needs, says Thomas Egner, secretary general, Euro Banking Association.
30 January 2019
News/payments
Barclays and Santander InnoVentures have led a £26 million Series B funding round in online invoice financing platform MarketInvoice.
21 January 2019
Interbank payment network Swift is pushing an API standard which will enable banks to provide instant loan approvals for customers at the point-of-sale.
16 January 2019
Manchester's bid to become a global tech-hub in the North of England has been boosted by the arrival of US-based venture capital firm Beringea and a $9 million investment in local corporate payments startup AccessPay.
14 January 2019
The ongoing shutdown of the US government, sparked by a disagreement over funding for border security, is starting to impinge on the US fintech industry, according to reports.
11 January 2019
The number of fintechs based in Scotland has increased threefold in the last 12 months following an initiative between government, academia and the finance industry designed to boost the sector.
Mastercard has taken the bold step of removing its name from its logo in a move it says is inspired by the rise of digital banking and a future where there will be less reliance on card payments.
10 January 2019
British bank Standard Chartered (SC) has hired Martijn De Jong as the global head of its Digital Channels & Data division.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recruited the Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani to head up an advisory panel on the development of digital payments.
09 January 2019
TrueLayer will now offer Deutsche Bank, Sparkassen, Commerzbank and other major German banks direct access to financial data following the first international move for the European API provider.
08 January 2019
Ireland's central bank has granted authorisation for Google to operate as a payments institution, a move that could see the big tech giant significantly expand its financial services offerings across the European Union.
07 January 2019
It’s been a busy year for the Finextra TV team, posting 251 video interviews with leading industry figures during the course of 2018. Here are the top five by viewing figures.
21 December 2018
As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2018, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2019.
Some very interesting narratives have emerged over the course of 2018 through Finextra’s reports, most of which we expect to progress into increasingly diverse and innovative discussions during 2019.
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