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Santander launches global blockchain challenge

Banco Santander and Oxentia Foundation are inviting startups and scaleups from 11 countries to compete in a blockchain challenge and the chance to win cash prizes.

29 April 2022

News/crypto

Hong Kong publishes CBDC discussion paper

Hong Kong is pushing ahead with its exploration of a retail central bank digital currency, launching a discussion paper on the policy and design aspects of a potential e-HKD.

28 April 2022

News/crypto

ECB's Panetta calls for urgent action to curb crypto Wild West

Global regulators need to hasten efforts to introduce a coordinated framework to tackle the crypto-asset Wild West, the European Central Bank's Fabio Panetta has warned.

25 April 2022

News/retail

CBI launches campaign to get UK businesses to embrace fintech

Confederation of British Industry (CBI) president Lord Bilimoria has launched a campaign to get more businesses using fintech to fuel growth.

25 April 2022

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Retail banks must embrace data-centric capabilities to see off fintech challenge - report

As fintech upstarts snap at their heels, retail bank executives are concerned that they are lagging in their ability to offer true omnichannel and personalised experiences, according to a report from Capgemini and Efma.

21 April 2022

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Apple Pay most popular payments app with US teens

Apple Pay is the most popular payments app among American teens although the vast majority still regularly use cash, according to a survey.

11 April 2022

News/crypto

E-krona could be integrated into banks' existing systems - Riksbank

It should be possible to integrate an e-krona into banks’ and payment service providers’ own existing systems, Sweden's central bank has concluded following CBDC research.

07 April 2022

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Metaverse economy could hit $13 trillion by 2030 - Citi

The Metaverse economy could be wort up to $13 trillion by 2030 while what counts as money in this next generation of the internet will look very different from today, according to a new report from Citi.

04 April 2022

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Apple looks to bring payment processing in-house - Bloomberg

Apple is working to bring a host of financial services work, including payments processing, in-house to reduce its reliance on outside fintech partners, according to Bloomberg.

31 March 2022

News/crypto

Visa launches NFT programme

Visa has launched a programme to help digital-first artists grow their businesses through non-fungible tokens.

31 March 2022

News/crypto

Bank of Canada partners MIT on CBDC research

The Bank of Canada has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a twelve-month research project on central bank digital currencies.

18 March 2022

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Amex files metaverse-related trademark applications

American Express has filed trademark applications to register its name, logo, and slogans for a range of banking services in the metaverse.

16 March 2022

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Deutsche Bank report warns of fallout from Russia's Swift ban

Facing criticism for its reluctance to pull out of Russia, Deutsche Bank has published a research report warning that banning the pariah state from Swift will "complicate trade and amplify jitters".

11 March 2022

News/wholesale

Big Data, DLT, IoT and AI set to transform trade supply chains - Commerzbank

Commerzbank claims that international trade and supply chains have reached a technological inflection point, with emerging technologies in Big data, blockchain, Internet of Things and artifical intelligence set to overturn long-established practices.

03 February 2022

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Starling pulls Facebook advertising; preps SaaS offering

Starling CEO Anne Boden says the bank has pulled all paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram until Meta tackles fraudsters advertising on its platforms. In her annual letter, Boden also confirms the planned launch of a Software as a Service (SaaS) proposition during 2022.

07 January 2022

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Finextra's top whitepapers of 2021

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

31 December 2021

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Finextra's top Future Series reports of 2021

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded Future Series reports over the course of the past year. Finextra’s Future Series is an annual editorial report series covering a fintech topic at a high level and includes interviews from financial institutions, usually a global range from EMEA, APAC and the Americas.

30 December 2021

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Finextra's top impact study reports of 2021

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to guides that support professionals in the financial industry in their migration to and utilisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

29 December 2021

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Finextra's year in review

With 2021 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

23 December 2021

News/devops

APImetrics and Finextra launch open access fintech, open banking and crypto API data dashboard

Finextra Research and APImetrics - the industry’s only analytics-driven API performance solution provider - have collaborated to offer the first open access dashboard that will monitor real-world performance of fintech, open banking, PSD2 payments and crypto APIs.

13 December 2021