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FinecoBank FY2020 results show that quality one-stop-solution works

Leading European fintech bank highlights a strong acceleration in UK customer acquisition, operating breakeven for UK operations expected within 1Q 2021

BNP Paribas rolls out payment tracking to corporate clients

BNP Paribas corporate customers can thus make it possible for their beneficiaries to benefit from the traceability of payment in real time and in a very secure way, thus ensuring efficiency, transparency and trust.

Speech: ECB's Fabio Panetta on a digital euro's impact on the financial system

In today’s discussion on the digitalisation of payments, these debates sound familiar.

Quilter Financial Adviser School to offer digital courses

All Level 4 training materials have been moved online, supported by videos, voice overs and questions to check understanding.

Italian digital bank illimity reports €31 million profit

The fourth quarter provided a significant contribution to the annual results, posting a pre-tax profit of 8.3 million euro, despite investments were made in new strategic projects whose positive effects will only be felt in future years.

The changing face of Digital ID in Jersey and Guernsey

In Guernsey, current indications are that the GFSC would prefer to leave the development of any such utilities to industry.

Has the pandemic accelerated digital transformation?

A more conversational approach to even simple automated tasks can put the human touch – and a premium service level – at the heart of the next generation of digital wealth tools.

The changing face of operational risk

The risks facing financial services players are multiplying and evolving. Creating a dynamic and proactive risk culture is essential to prevent serious losses.

AutoRek selected by the UK Government’s Department for International Trade to showcase best in British innovation

AutoRek was chosen following a highly competitive recruitment process.

Payment Fraud Prevention app from NetGuardians sees success on Finastra's FusionFabric.cloud

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) dramatically improve fraud scoring accuracy, resulting in reduced false positives and fraud losses, while delivering significant operational savings

AnaCap sells Equa bank

Together with management, AnaCap has successfully implemented an accelerated challenger bank growth strategy with investment in innovation, talent and the effective application of modern technology.

European Banks Form Coalition to Boost Public Cloud Adoption in the Finance Industry

Vitally, an SD-WAN can also centralise security policy orchestration and automatically direct application traffic accordingly, allowing for rapidly-deployable, uniform security policy enforcement across the network.

Barclays adds itemised digital receipts to its banking app in partnership with fintech Flux

Early last year, Barclays announced that it has invested in Flux, taking a minority stake, so the strengthening of its partnership isn’t too much of a surprise.

Ex-banking technology professionals are preparing secretive company launches

Tomer Sharon was a Goldman Sachs' managing director and head of user research and metrics for two years until sometime in 2020.

Succession Wealth teams up with tech company

In a bid to tackle ‘one of the biggest challenges for adviser firms’

Uphold to launch crypto card in Europe

"These attributes will shortly allow us to issue multi-asset, crypto-enabled debit cards across the UK and Europe."

Singapore Fintech TranSwap Ventures to U.K.

TranSwap called the U.K. a «pivotal market» to accelerate the firm's next phase of expansion.

Avaloq crowned ‘Best Transaction Processing Solution’ provider

For the 2021 programme, the award’s judges commented on the strength of Avaloq’s submission, highlighting the evidence the firm provided on reversals and efficiency as well as the emphasis on the importance of both data integrity and speed.

First Trust overhauls investment objective on smart beta ETFs

Its top ten holdings include Lenovo Group, Sony Corporation and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and it is available for a total expense ratio (TER) of 0.7%.

Embracing Digital in 2021

The technology research firm, Celent further bore this out in its Wealth Management Technology Forecast 2020-2023.

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