Latest Wholesale banking News: Finextra Research

UBS commissions installation to visualise air pollution

UBS has come up with a novel way to show off its big data capabilities, enlisting designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng to create an interactive installation that explores global air quality through a feed of data from monitoring stations around the world.

11 September 2019

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Banco Sabadell invests in cyber-risk modelling startup Kovrr

Banco Sabadell's innovation hub InnoCells has joined a $5.5 million funding round for Israeli cyber-risk modelling startup Kovrr. StageOne Ventures and Alma Mundi Ventures co-led the round.

11 September 2019

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Ambitious P27 project grows team for next phase

Nordic bank-backed P27 is undertaking a recruitment drive as it puts together the building blocks for a proposed 2021 go-live of its real-time, cross-border payment project.

10 September 2019

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HSBC standardises on Zoom for enterprise comms

Banking giant HSBC is rolling out a video-first enterprise communications platform from vendor Zoom around the world.

10 September 2019

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Brexit disrupts FCA fact finding mission

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has suspended a consultation on accessing and using data in wholesale markets in order to let firms concentrate on preparing for Brexit.

10 September 2019

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JPMorgan builds 'Volfefe Index' to measure market impact of Trump's tweets

JPMorgan Chase analysts have created an index to analyse the influence of Donald Trump's tweets on US interest rates, finding that the President's 240-character outbursts are increasingly moving markets.

09 September 2019

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CaixaBank tests quantum computing for risk analysis

Spain's CaixaBank has begun experimenting with quantum computing to help with risk analysis simulations on financial assets.

09 September 2019

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Chinese official voices digital coin plans

More details have emerged around China's plans to issue its own digital coin following a lecture given by a senior official at the central bank.

06 September 2019

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Hong Kong exchange suffers cyber attack

The chief executive of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has conceded that the trading venue was subject to a series of cyber attacks this week but has insisted that an outage which brought derivatives trading to a halt was related to a software bug and not a hacker.

06 September 2019

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Goldman Sachs tech head to step down

The most senior technology executive at Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs is reported to be stepping down amid a clear out of senior partners, raising questions about the direction of Goldman's technology strategy

05 September 2019