Shawbrook Bank in ClusterSeven risk management heaven
For the management of business-critical spreadsheets.
For the management of business-critical spreadsheets.
PSD2 comes into force on 13 January 2018. It aims to open up the European payments market to greater competition and transparency, but its effect will be more far-reaching, acting as a catalyst for innovation not just in payments, but in the wider financial services market.
Includes IT support and operation of its data centre.
Nesta names prize winners at the conclusion of stage one of its Open Up Challenge.
Nordea has connected APIs to its production system and made its open banking live in Finland.
Are GDPR and PSD2 really that dissimilar and incompatible? Or do they combine to create a robust security mind set?
Nothing quite compares to go compare for bank accounts in the UK.
An attempt to create an industry powerhouse in the markets for cybersecurity and digital products.
Berlin-based challenger bank Penta has officially launched its business bank account offering in Germany.
Commerzbank and HSBC Transaction Services have formed a new partnership for securities settlement.
EXCLUSIVE: ABN Amro’s new wealth management proposition, Prospery, has implemented Five Degrees’ Matrix solution.
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has revealed its latest batch of nine cybersecurity start-ups.
According to the latest research by DMA, a UK trade association for the one-to-one marketing industry, those in the B2B space are trailing slightly when it comes to having a detailed awareness of what the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws entail.
Alior Bank has unveiled its acceleration programme for technology start-ups using the OpenAPI environment based on IBM technology, implemented by business solutions developer Tuatara.
Fintech Connect Live 2017 is a gathering of some of the biggest players in the fintech. With the looming rise of open banking and the cryptocurrency surge, it’s the smaller start-ups and innovators of smart technologies in banking that are making headway with use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML).
Meta search engine Joblift analysed the UK’s insurtech job market, comparing it to both the traditional insurance industry, and the insurtech market in the UK’s major competitor Germany.
Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK have found a security flaw that put ten million banking app users at risk.
The Moneycorp Group will acquire Brazilian foreign exchange business Novo Mundo Corretora de Cambio, and UK-based currency firm First Rate FX.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is now accepting applications from fintech firms to be part of its fourth sandbox phase.
ABN Amro has unleashed Prospery, its online wealth manager offering digital asset management combined with personal coaching by experts.
Belgium bank KBC with its mobile banking app is seeking to form a partnership to broaden its third-party services.
BPCE, the second largest banking group in France, is seeking revenue growth and expansion with a new €600 million “TEC 2020” digital transformation plan.
Paytech firm Wirecard is collaborating with sendhybrid, a company linked to the Austrian postal service Österreichische Post, to offer electronic post-box users a payment service to settle public sector digital invoices.
Technology start-up Kuzzle, the open-source backend solution for mobile, web and internet of things (IoT), will launch its latest solution for digital banking at FinTech Connect Live in London.
Moneythor, a Singapore-based fintech firm, has deployed its digital banking toolkit and personalisation engine at France’s new mobile bank, Orange.
Challenger bank Countingup is the latest firm to call on London-based HooYu for its innovative identity confirmation services.
BS/2, a Lithuanian banking technology company, and VisionLabs, a face recognition software provider, have teamed up to fight financial crime by offering contactless identification for self-service terminals. The duo will offer an integration solution – using BS/2’s ATMeye.iQ, a self-service video surveillance and fraud prevention system, and VisionLabs’ LUNA face recognition platform. The solution uses […]
“We have created a more digital, agile and flexible TSB,” stated Paul Pester, CEO of TSB, at the unveiling of the bank’s new technology platform, Proteo4UK.
Visa has come out victorious after the UK High Court dismissed the case against processing fees made by UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s.
There is another wave of cuts as the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is closing 259 more branches and axing 680 jobs. This development follows the previous branch closure announcements which resulted in over 500 branches being lost. In June, RBS said 443 jobs are to go from its business loans department. Many of these […]
Triodos Bank in the UK stands out from the crowd for its ethical values but can it now kick on with a leap into the current account market? Banking Technology talks to UK MD, Bevis Watts, about this major development and the technology that underpins it.
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
CNP Cyprus insurance holdings has chosen Profile Software’s IMSplus solution to manage its assets and fund management requirements to achieve “operational efficiency”.
Customers of Lloyds and Bank of Scotland have reported a host of payment processing problems as UK banks yet again fail to deliver banking services. In the repellent realm of Twitter, some users reported that wages weren’t paid at the end of the month. With the processing system down, bosses couldn’t pay their staff and […]
We did say there will be no quiet days. Coming straight after yesterday’s (29 November) action, we bring another payments round-up. Features Interac, nanopay, Remitr, ADGM, Nordea, Nets, Facebook and Amazon.
Société Générale has unveiled plans to cut costs and push itself forward towards digital banking – translation: the closure of branches and job cuts in France by 2020.
The UK trade union Unite has revealed that Lloyds has informed staff it will be closing another 49 branches of the Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds, resulting in 99 job losses. Rob MacGregor, Unite national officer, says: “Having returned to profitability Lloyds needs to stop ignoring its corporate social responsibilities. Just over six months […]
German digital account exchange provider FinReach has expanded into Austria and Spain – meaning its service is now used by over 500 banks in three countries. In Austria, FinReach has partnered with, amongst others, banking group Raiffeisen Austria, which includes 434 banks and has 1.7 million customers. In terms of the Spanish market, Self Bank, […]
Who can not get enough of top ten lists? This latest infographic shows the top ten benefits of the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme.
It’s been a good year for banks as in a first since the launch in 2014, the (BoE) reveals that no bank needed to strengthen its capital position as a result of its latest stress test.