Bricks and clicks mix with Metro Bank online current account launch
Join from your own home, office, coffee shops, sheds and hot tubs.
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Curve card comes a-calling in UK
An app that connects debit and credit cards to one Curve Mastercard.
Nationwide wide of the mark for UK open banking launch
Joins five banks in missing the deadline.
Danske Bank UK picks Datactics data quality software
Used for single customer view processes in Northern Ireland.
Is the UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport the real life DOSAC?
It’s like the UK government is taking advice from the writers of “The Thick of It”.
Harrods Bank acquired by challenger Tandem
UPDATE. Purchase completed following regulatory approval from the Bank of England.
UK Digital Minister visits Tate Modern instead of figuring out what job actually is
Feel free to give him a prod and tell him to get back into the office.
Conister Bank in core banking tech revamp with TCS
EXCLUSIVE: Isle of Man’s community bank is modernising its core banking platform.
Cake4Good fintech charity bake off!
Where you can bake it! Fake it! Or buy it! In support of The House of St Barnabas.
Jefferies goes live with Percentile’s RiskMine Cube
London-based investment bank shows its love for RiskMine Cube.
New challenger bank on UK scene, Chetwood Financial
UK’s challenger bank scene has got a new entrant – Chetwood Financial.
London Assembly calls for change for short changed youth
Wants a bank account for every young Londoner.
Regtechs all the rage in Accenture’s latest innovation lab
Having their own dedicated stream for the first time.
DOS & Co to launch London’s first digital private bank
UK-based advisory firm DOS & Co is the latest name in challenger banking.
Top fintech stories this week – 5 January 2018
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Failed fundraiser closes the folio on Folio
Closing this month after it failed to meet its fundraising target.
Thomas Cook and Ferratum launch mobile banking app for holidays, Sumo
The first ever mobile banking app designed for holidays launched in Sweden. UK to follow.
Payments: contactless charitable cases
Charities large and small are waking up to the need to embrace contactless payments. Banking Technology looks at the drivers, challenges and opportunities.
Top fintech stories this week – 22 December 2017
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
UK’s open banking service to go live in January 2018
The Open Banking Implementation Entity has confirmed that the UK will be the first nation to launch open banking.
Monimove unveils corporate supply chain finance platform
UK firm seeking to carve itself a slice of the credit management market.
City of London Group to launch challenger bank
In the process of obtaining a banking licence as it targets commercial, SME, bridging and development finance.
Ex-Barclays boss mulls £10m Tandem investment
Former Barclays boss, Bob Diamond, is in talks to buy a stake in UK-based challenger bank Tandem.
FCA publishes feedback on distributed ledger technology
The responses on the potential for future development of DLT in the markets it regulates.
SBDA Group closes Series A investment round
Banking personalisation firm SBDA landed investment from FinSight Ventures and Digital Space Ventures.
Shawbrook Bank in ClusterSeven risk management heaven
For the management of business-critical spreadsheets.
Nesta reveals ten winners of SME innovation challenge
Nesta names prize winners at the conclusion of stage one of its Open Up Challenge.
UK regulator finally acts as compere for bank account compares
Nothing quite compares to go compare for bank accounts in the UK.
UK cybersecurity centre showcases second wave of start-ups
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has revealed its latest batch of nine cybersecurity start-ups.
Infographic: GDPR & B2B marketers – less aware but more prepared
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.
Fintech Connect Live 2017: the unleashing of AI and ML
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).
Infographic: insurtech job market
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.
UK university reveals security flaw in millions of banking apps
Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK have found a security flaw that put ten million banking app users at risk.
Moneycorp expands with acquisitions in Brazil and UK
The Moneycorp Group will acquire Brazilian foreign exchange business Novo Mundo Corretora de Cambio, and UK-based currency firm First Rate FX.
UK regulator puts out feelers for fourth wave of fintech firms
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is now accepting applications from fintech firms to be part of its fourth sandbox phase.
Kuzzle to launch retail digital banking solution
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.
HooYu to provide verification services for UK challenger bank Countingup
Challenger bank Countingup is the latest firm to call on London-based HooYu for its innovative identity confirmation services.
TSB unveils new banking tech platform, Proteo4UK
“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.
Supermarket victory sweep for Visa processing fees
Visa has come out victorious after the UK High Court dismissed the case against processing fees made by UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s.
RBS closes 259 more branches and axes 680 jobs
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 […]
