11/18/2016
Killik to enter robo-advice market for lower-income investors
Monthly investment will start from £25 a month
FinTech
11/17/2016
Kim Fournais: People Are More Loyal to Their Bank Than to Their Spouse
Changes will open opportunities for new players, in particular from the fledgling fintech industry
11/17/2016
ICAP’s Spencer Reboots Market Stalwart With a Big Bet on Digital
Spencer is betting the house on committing everything to electronic platforms
11/17/2016
Sweden’s Riksbank to decide whether to start issuing an 'ekrona' within two years, deputy governor says
Like other central banks, the Riksbank currently provides electronic money through accounts to banks and clearing organisations.
11/17/2016
What are your future clients doing right now?...
Mik Cons, CEO of Sammedia Limited
11/17/2016
FNZ to build new BPO centre for Kleinwort Benson, SG Hambros and Société Générale’s private banking business
Kleinwort Benson is currently using the T24 core banking system provided by Temenos.
11/16/2016
Google commits to £1bn UK investment plan
The news comes as a major boost to Britain's technology sector.
11/16/2016
IRESS delivers greater price certainty for term protection with new on-line underwriting proposition
Disclosure of occupation also becomes mandatory when additional BMI information is selected.
11/16/2016
Barclays has plans to let customers use Facebook for banking
The best way to think about this is an operational data store that is literally mirroring, or in synch, with the old-school mainframe.
11/15/2016
Fintech deal set to prompt new expansion into London
The move to link the world's two leading fintech hubs is expected to revolutionize global fintech growth
11/15/2016
Metro Bank, SETL and Deloitte explore blockchain for consumer payments
The successful implementation of a blockchain smartcard retail payment system offers the possibility of significantly reducing current high costs for processing retail transactions
11/15/2016
Wealth Management Firm To Create Belfast Jos
The company's expansion into Belfast will create 42 jobs and has been supported by a £252,000 investment from Invest NI
11/14/2016
Copenhagen Fintech opens doors
CFIR facilitated connections between fintech start-ups, banks, regulators and policy-makers.
11/13/2016
Russian Banks Suffered Powerful DDOS Attacks - Good News is that Attacks were Successfully Mitigated
The intensity of the attacks reached 660 thousands of requests per second. It is also noted that some of the banks were attacked repeatedly.
11/11/2016
ABN looked at using undercover security staff to prevent cyber attacks
ABN-AMRO was looking at sending staff undercover to observe employees' security practices
11/11/2016
ING Bank Invites Teams to Impact Finance at Global WebVR Hackathon
ING’s strategy is to unlock innovation for their clients through co-creation
11/10/2016
HSBC combines AWS with agile thinking to tap into growing demand for mobile banking
Banking giant opens up about how cloud and DevOps adoption is helping it cope with the growing consumer demand for mobile and online banking services
11/10/2016
Mizuho Taps Wolters Kluwer for Risk, Regulatory Reporting
The bank will use Wolters Kluwer's solutions suite to perform calculations and reporting functions, in line with upcoming regulations.
11/10/2016
Italian banking firm predicts the doom of traditional banking
Banks will need to address these problems against a background of branch closures, reduced footfall in branches and diversification in the way customers bank.
11/08/2016
Frankfurt’s Fledgling Fintechs Show a City Racing to Catch Up
Shortages in venture-capital funding have led Germany’s banking and exchange powerhouses to set change into motion themselves.