https://www.finextra.com/ The Latest Financial IT Covid-19 Headlines Copyright 2026 Finextra Research Ltd en-GB contact@finextra.com (Finextra Contact) https://www.finextra.com https://www.finextra.com/finextra-images/site/finextra.png https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/46460/blueacorn-co-founder-pleads-guilty-to-ppp-fraud-scheme?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/46460/blueacorn-co-founder-pleads-guilty-to-ppp-fraud-scheme?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:28:00 GMT Since the CARES Act was enacted in March 2020, 200 defendants in more than 130 criminal cases have been prosecuted and over $78 million in cash proceeds derived from fraudulently obtained PPP funds have been seized, in addition to several real estate properties and luxury items purchased with the proceeds. https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/46209/global-fintech-growth-challenged-by-macroeconomic-risks---wef-report?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/46209/global-fintech-growth-challenged-by-macroeconomic-risks---wef-report?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:38:00 GMT Macroeconomic risks have been highlighted as the biggest concern affecting the growth of global fintechs, according to research from the World Economic Forum (WEF). https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/44305/wells-fargo-fires-employees-for-simulating-keyboard-activity?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/44305/wells-fargo-fires-employees-for-simulating-keyboard-activity?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:01:00 GMT Wells Fargo fired several employees for faking work by using "mouse jigglers" to simulate computer activity, according to Bloomberg. https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/43964/hong-kong-set-to-approve-first-crypto-etf?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/43964/hong-kong-set-to-approve-first-crypto-etf?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:07:00 GMT Hong Kong's financial regulator is poised to give the green light to the first batch of bitcoin spot ETFs. https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/43900/robinhood-co-founder-steps-down?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/43900/robinhood-co-founder-steps-down?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:46:00 GMT Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder and chief creative officer of online stock trading firm Robinhood, has resigned from the company to "pursue other entrepreneurial interests". https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/42235/lloyds-tells-employees-to-be-back-in-office-two-days-a-week?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/42235/lloyds-tells-employees-to-be-back-in-office-two-days-a-week?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Fri, 28 Apr 2023 14:32:00 GMT Lloyds Banking Group will use "card swipe data" to make sure that hybrid workers comply with new rules insisting that they spend at least two days a week in the office. https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41988/25trn-wiped-off-global-stock-markets-in-2022?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41988/25trn-wiped-off-global-stock-markets-in-2022?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:25:00 GMT The market capitalisation of global stock markets declined by 20% in 2022 while value of traded stocks fell by 10% according to data from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE). https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41506/finextras-year-in-review?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41506/finextras-year-in-review?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Fri, 23 Dec 2022 13:00:00 GMT With 2022 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41441/over-a-third-of-covid-support-loans-issued-by-starling-at-risk-of-default?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41441/over-a-third-of-covid-support-loans-issued-by-starling-at-risk-of-default?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:05:00 GMT Over a third of bounce back loans approved by Starling Bank during the pandemic are at risk of default, the lender has told the Public Accounts Committee. https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41426/fintechs-savaged-over-covid-loan-fraud?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/41426/fintechs-savaged-over-covid-loan-fraud?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:36:00 GMT A US select committee investigating fraud in the country's pandemic relief programme has savaged fintech companies for "recklessly" handing out loans to dubious applicants. https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/40928/starling-responds-to-uk-govts-report-on-suspected-bbls-fraud?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/40928/starling-responds-to-uk-govts-report-on-suspected-bbls-fraud?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Wed, 07 Sep 2022 12:20:00 GMT UK Government has confirmed that of the £47 billion provided in loans through the Bounce Back Loan (BBL) scheme, £1.1 billion of these loans are suspected to be fraudulent. https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/40921/uks-bank-branch-sharing-project-to-be-extended?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/40921/uks-bank-branch-sharing-project-to-be-extended?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 06 Sep 2022 09:51:00 GMT A trial project involving bank branches shared by multiple institutions is set to be rolled out across the UK. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/3105/how-cloud-and-saas-enable-customer-centric-innovation-for-banks?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/3105/how-cloud-and-saas-enable-customer-centric-innovation-for-banks?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:00:00 GMT Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Azfar Karimuddin, Chief Cloud Officer, Temenos & Dan Broten, CTO, EQ Bank, explore the advantages for banks running on the cloud, including how the technology helps to deliver better customer services and experiences. Discussing SaaS, they also pinpoint exactly how this technology can help banks innovate faster and develop new business models. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2851/rethinking-digital-identity-in-a-post-pandemic-world?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2851/rethinking-digital-identity-in-a-post-pandemic-world?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:08:00 GMT Speaking at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Trust:Live 2023, Niall McCann, Policy Consultant, Legal Identity, UN Development Programme, discusses the legal rights to identity in the digital space and what difficulties governments are facing when managing digital ID. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2761/an-outlook-on-the-new-normal-digital-native-financial-services?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2761/an-outlook-on-the-new-normal-digital-native-financial-services?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:26:00 GMT Talking with FinextraTV, Eric Bierry, CEO, Sopra Banking Software, sits down to discuss the role of the Bank in a post-covid landscape ahead of The Sopra Banking Summit 2022. Providing an integrated, international perspective, the summit will offer critical insight into building the best path forward for banks and their client’s futures. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2647/mastercard-on-how-cross-border-payments-has-evolved-since-the-pandemic?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2647/mastercard-on-how-cross-border-payments-has-evolved-since-the-pandemic?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Thu, 26 May 2022 11:21:00 GMT Rasika Raina, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Transformation, Cross Border Services, Mastercard speaks in the lead up to EBAday 2022 about the evolution of cross-border payments. We discuss the major shift in payment behavior from consumers and businesses since the pandemic, how it changed the nature of cross-border payments, how the financial industry responded to these demands, and what needs to happen to make cross-border payments as fast and easy as domestic ones. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2573/world-banks-call-to-action-fintech-firm-voices-heard-through-covid-19-fintech-market-impact-study?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2573/world-banks-call-to-action-fintech-firm-voices-heard-through-covid-19-fintech-market-impact-study?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:04:00 GMT In an exclusive with FinextraTV, Ana Fiorella Carvajal, Lead Financial Sector Expert, World Bank, speaks about their partnership and involvement with CCAF and World Economic Forum in 'The Global COVID-19 Fintech Market Impact & Industry Resilience Study'. We hear why insight from the research is so important to World Bank, how partnerships between academic institutions and development organisations make a tangible impact and the development of the FinTech industry relates to the World Bank’s goals. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2554/world-economic-forum-on-why-the-covid-19-fintech-market-impact-study-is-so-important?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2554/world-economic-forum-on-why-the-covid-19-fintech-market-impact-study-is-so-important?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:25:00 GMT In an exclusive with FinextraTV, Ben Weisman, Financial Innovation Lead at the World Economic Forum speaks about their partnership and involvement with CCAF and World Bank in 'The Global COVID-19 Fintech Market Impact & Industry Resilience Study'. We learn more about how the pandemic has helped launch regulatory innovation and how this is improving financial inclusion for the underbanked, how FinTech's increasing prevalence of digital payments is empowering emerging markets and developing economies, and the ways in which the report will work to shape other agendas and initiatives underway at the World Economic Forum. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2552/the-launch-of-ccaf-world-bank-world-economic-forums-second-covid-19-fintech-impact-study?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2552/the-launch-of-ccaf-world-bank-world-economic-forums-second-covid-19-fintech-impact-study?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:30:00 GMT Building on the findings from its landmark COVID-19 Rapid Assessment Study back in 2020, Tania Ziegler, Head of Global Benchmarking & Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, introduces ‘The Global COVID-19 Fintech Market Impact & Industry Resilience Study’, which is setting out to collect information and data from firms across the globe to gain insights into fintech performance in the face of the pandemic, the steps they have taken to respond to customer requirements, and how regulatory factors have influenced their development throughout the pandemic. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2520/gearing-up-for-ebaday-2021-what-to-expect?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2520/gearing-up-for-ebaday-2021-what-to-expect?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:25:00 GMT In the lead-up to EBAday 2021, Daniel Szmukler, Director, Euro Banking Association, unveils the curtain and goes behind the scene of the event. We hear about the thinking behind the theme 'Payments transformation – The road to success', what can we expect from this year‘s diverse agenda, and the range of new topics the European payments industry can sink its teeth into. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2495/digital-banking-made-human?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2495/digital-banking-made-human?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:00:00 GMT Derek Corcoran, Chief Experience Officer at Temenos, talks about the acceleration of digital during the pandemic, how banks should focus their products around their customer's life moments, and how they can use technology to make digital banking human. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2486/transitioning-to-digitally-powered-end-to-end-platform-driven-corporate-banking?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2486/transitioning-to-digitally-powered-end-to-end-platform-driven-corporate-banking?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:27:00 GMT Torsten Pull, Senior Vice President, General Manager Corporate Banking, Finastra, speaks about Finastra’s latest corporate banking research ahead of Finastra Universe. We learn about moving beyond the traditional relationship model and what it takes to transition to digitally powered, end-to-end, platform-driven corporate banking post-pandemic. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2447/lessons-learnt-from-online-personal-finance-conversations?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2447/lessons-learnt-from-online-personal-finance-conversations?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:21:00 GMT Derek Corcoran, Chief Experience Officer at Temenos, talks through the findings of the latest Economist report, the changes we’ve seen in the banking sector due to Covid-19, and how banks can humanize their digital interactions with customers. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2430/natwest-on-the-progress-of-uk-finances-payment-futures?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2430/natwest-on-the-progress-of-uk-finances-payment-futures?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Wed, 25 Nov 2020 14:42:00 GMT Simon Eacott, Head of Payments Innovation and Business Development, Natwest speaks during EBAday 2020 about the work he has been doing at UK Finance and the progress of Payment Futures. We talk about the impact of the pandemic, how the industry has responded, and how NatWest will navigate the coming months. https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2402/smes-place-in-the-pandemic--the-solutions-they-need-to-survive?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/2402/smes-place-in-the-pandemic--the-solutions-they-need-to-survive?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:30:00 GMT Milan Gauder, Executive Vice President, Product & Innovation for Europe, Mastercard talks about the impact the pandemic has had on SME’s in Europe, some of the challenges that small businesses face as a result, what Mastercard are doing to tackle these challenges and support small businesses and the solutions small businesses should consider to secure their place in the market. https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/24834/exploring-the-evolving-business-environment-after-covid-19-examining-subscription-plans-in-detail?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/24834/exploring-the-evolving-business-environment-after-covid-19-examining-subscription-plans-in-detail?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Mon, 04 Sep 2023 10:03:38 GMT Author: A finextra community member https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/24123/going-back-to-basics-to-boost-growth?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/24123/going-back-to-basics-to-boost-growth?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:05:05 GMT Author: A finextra community member https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/22747/value-management---the-key-to-a-successful-digital-transformation?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/22747/value-management---the-key-to-a-successful-digital-transformation?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:49:15 GMT Author: A finextra community member https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/22260/how-artificial-intelligence-helped-save-world-trade?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/22260/how-artificial-intelligence-helped-save-world-trade?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Mon, 09 May 2022 10:15:38 GMT Author: A finextra community member https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/22132/relief-is-on-its-way-how-top-american-banks-cope-with-the-post-pandemic-crisis?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/22132/relief-is-on-its-way-how-top-american-banks-cope-with-the-post-pandemic-crisis?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:39:28 GMT Author: A finextra community member https://www.finextra.com/banners/banner.aspx?opt=ad&baid=8215 https://www.finextra.com/banners/banner.aspx?opt=ad&baid=8215 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Webinar – Beyond Connectivity: Creating More Value across the Payments Lifecycle