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Lights, camera, action! Finextra TV highlights 2018

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.

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2018: The future of banking in the spotlight as digital trends take hold

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.

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Finextra Research roundup: AI and Digital ID to the fore

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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Square refiles for banking licence

Payments company Square has refiled its application for a bank licence with US regulators

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Apple forced to rewire Apple Pay following complaints by Swiss banks

Apple has agreed to adjust the functioning of its mobile payments application to avoid a run-in with Swiss competition authorities over complaints by the banks that the consumer electronic giant was trying to over-ride the Twint app at contactless payment terminals.

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Credit checking startup TotallyMoney agrees £29 million funding round

TotallyMoney, a fintech startup providing consumer credit reports, has agreed £29 million of funding from Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited (Elliott) and existing investors Scottish Equity Partners (SEP).

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EU approves ruling to chop charges for cross-border Euro transactions

The European Parliament has approved plans to make banks slash fees on cross-border euro payments between EU countries that are in the euro zone and those that are not.

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Royal Bank of Canada named in Facebook privacy scandal

Royal Bank of Canada has become embroiled in a privacy scandal engulfing Facebook after it emerged that the social network appeared to provide a raft of Big Tech companies with privileged access to user accounts.

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Blythe Masters steps away from Digital Asset

Blythe Masters, the public face of distributed ledger firm Digital Asset, has stepped down as CEO for "personal reasons".

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Flux scores $7.5 million funding round

Digital receipt startup Flux has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding led by venture capital firm e-ventures with participation from existing backers PROfounders and Anthemis.

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Just four out of eleven contenders for RBS bail out cash are challengers

Banking Competition Remedies Ltd (BCR) has drawn up a shortlist of 11 institutions who qualify to join a £275 million incentivised switching scheme for SME customers established under the terms of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) bail out fund.

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Egypt's Commercial International Bank joins fintech venture trail

Egypt's Commercial International Bank (CIB) is launching the country's first venture capital arm to focus squarely on investment in fintech startups.