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No API, No Party. A new Shakespearean drama?

The creation of these new holistic scenarios leads to the need and opportunity to exploit technologies capable of managing large volumes of data

FOMO Pay Introduces COBO and POBO Capabilities in Partnership with Banking Circle

Banking Circle is a Payments bank committed to building a local clearing network for all major currencies

DataQube secures €26 million from French investment management company, RGREEN INVEST

This investment will be leveraged to accelerate the commercialisation of the world’s most energy efficient and optimized modular edge data centre, cutting down consumption and CO2 emissions by more than half

BoI fined €24.5m for serious IT failures that could have affected millions of customers

The fine is designed to reflect the seriousness of the disruption Bank of Ireland customers would have faced and the knock-on effect to Ireland’s entire banking system if the lender’s IT systems had failed

Do we need a digital Euro?

Most central banks have analyzed the topic over recent years, but many were initially hesitant to move forward because of the problems related to anonymity and disruption of financial intermediation.

Calastone partners with Microsoft

CCF is an open-source framework for building a new category of secure, highly available, and performant applications that focus on multi-party confidential compute and storage.

BankiFi announce co-development deal with The Co-operative Bank

The cash will be applied to the development of further products for the SME market, beginning with cash management.

SS&C Technologies enters bidding war for Blue Prism

SS&C 1,275 pence-a-share deal for Blue Prism outbids Vista

Tech regulation leads the agenda at UK G7 forum

The conference has been about setting the future agenda for the way we cooperate and collaborate on technology

Northern Trust Expands Relationship with Broadridge to Support Shareholder Rights Directive II Compliance

Northern Trust using enhanced version of Broadridge's Global Proxy Solution and Shareholder Disclosure Hub

VP Bank is the first Liechtenstein bank to successfully tokenise a work of art

Tokenisation makes it much more straightforward to access paintings, along with other works of art

SimCorp’s sustainability-related solutions, developed in partnership with leading asset manager, resonates in market

The partnership with Danske Bank Asset Management together with the input of the broader SimCorp client community, enabled standard SFDR and EU taxonomy solutions with future-proof infrastructure.

The Digitalisation of Banking in the UK

Additional figures indicate that since the start of the pandemic, the use of digital banking across numerous age demographics has increased across all channels

AJ Bell to offer 0.15% fees with new Dodl app

Pricing pressure has been increasing across the market, with recent moves by firms hoping to challenge incumbents by offering fee-free trades, low-cost fixed fees and family discounts.

Investment in UK impact technology firms jumped to £2bn in the past year

Climate tech firms led the hike in investment, with green energy provider Octopus Energy raising the biggest round of the past year

Do you have the right approach to building a risk-aware investment process?

Organisations that proactively manage risk are more risk-aware and be¬tter at tailoring risk to get a higher return on their portfolios.

Invesco unveils physically backed bitcoin ETP

Fixed 0.99% annual fee

FCA poured £5 million into laptops for hybrid working

The FCA also purchased 307 Samsung phones and 39 iPhones with an indicative range of the spend of £0- £100,000.

ING rolls out global contact centre

The platform, available in eight countries, standardises how you interact with ING, with each country able to use or combine channels, depending on needs.

SocGen makes play to be a data-driven bank

This focus is designed to give SocGen an edge in personalised customer services, responsiveness and speed, efficiency and risk controls.

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