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London listed fintech venture fund Augmentum has invested £7.5 million in small business lender iwoca.
24 January 2019
Barclays is turbo-boosting the New York arm of its Rise accelerator and introducing an investment pool of £10 million for each cohort to go through the programme.
Symbiont, a startup working to bring blockchain technology to capital markets, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Nasdaq Ventures and joined by Citi.
23 January 2019
Lloyds Bank is looking at a £750 million annual saving in tech spend as it plots a move to a new core banking platform from tech startup Thought Machine.
Cognizant is to acquire bank-owned Finnish IT supplier Oy Samlink as part of a programme to implement a shared core banking platform for three of the country's savings banks.
Blockchain infrastructure outfit Blockstream is joining forces with Japanese tech player Digital Garage and FS firm Tokyo Tanshi on a new venture building bitcoin and blockchain tools for the Japanese institutional market, beginning with a yen-pegged stablecoin.
BNP Paribas has extended its partnership with IBM for a further eight years as the French bank looks to ramp up its cloud approach in support of a digital transformation programme.
22 January 2019
ING has agreed a five-year deal with R3 for an unlimited number of Corda Enterprise licenses, with the aim of encouraging the adoption of CorDapps across the business.
The venture capital arm of insurance and asset management group AXA has raised $150 million for its second early stage fintech and healthtech fund.
The London Stock Exchange has signed its first technology licensing deal with an emerging crypto exchange, providing its Millennium matching engine to Hong Kong's Atom Asset Exchange.
The Dutch central bank and financial services regulator say that the country must introduce a licensing regime for crypto exchanges and wallet providers in order to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing.
21 January 2019
Beth Devin, head of innovation network and emerging technologies at Citi Ventures, selects five technologies that could have a major impact on financial institutions and their clients in 2019 and beyond.
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