Latest DevOps News: Finextra Research

Rabobank to hold Dutch fintech hackathon

Rabobank is to hold a fintech hackathon in Utrecht with the winning team scooping a EUR5000 cash prize.

04 June 2014

Fintech startups invited to play in data sandbox

Fidelity Investments, Thomson Reuters and Amazon are backing a fintech startup programme in Boston that will provide early stage firms with free and discounted access to financial data sets to test-drive their applications.

28 May 2014

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Scivantage sets up fintech incubator programme

Capital markets tech house Scivantage is teaming with Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology to launch a fintech incubator programme promising capital, IT support and guidance to successful entrants.

20 May 2014

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Finextra Leadership: Open innovation at BBVA

As head of open innovation at Spain's BBVA, Jose Antonio Gallego is in the front line of the digital transformation of banking. He speaks to Finextra about the challenges facing the industry and how BBVA is seeding a new culture of innovation across the bank.

16 May 2014

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Eastern Bank sets up innovation laboratory

Boston-based Eastern Bank has partnered with former members of PerkStreet Financial to create a new innovation laboratory that will use the bank's data assets to rapidly prototype and launch new technologies for use within the bank and onsale to other financial institutions.

28 April 2014

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BBVA and Google launch biz app development competition

BBVA and Google are calling on developers to enter a competition to develop business productivity applications for SMEs and entrepreneurs in Spain and Latin America.

28 March 2014

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Pebble smartwatch gets first payment app

The Pebble smartwatch has got its first payment app, using a software development toolkit from mobile payments network LevelUp.

18 March 2014

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Bank of Ireland and State Street join Irish fintech accelerator

Irish innovation outfit NDRC has partnered with Bank of Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Mediolanum and State Street to establish a 'pre-accelerator' programme for financial services startups at the very earliest stages of their development.

11 March 2014

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Startupbootcamp invites fintech geeks to London payments hackathon

Startupbootcamp is inviting fintech geeks to take part in a 48-hour, payments infrastructure-focussed hackathon in London next month.

11 March 2014

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Ripple opens developer portal; gets accelerator programme

Ripple is set to get a kick-start, with the outfit behind it opening up a developer portal and CrossCoin Ventures launching an accelerator to help startups working with the cypto-currency protocol.

05 March 2014