20th Banking Technology Awards Supplement
A golden celebration of excellence and innovation.
Consumer/Personal Finance
Video: Intellect Design Arena at MoneyLive London – an age of open infrastructure
Banesh Prabhu talks on FinTech Futures about open banking, legacy tech and CX.
Neobank for UK farmers Oxbury lands licence and launches Series C
Its flagship offering ‘Oxbury Farm Credit’ will roll out later this year.
Banking Technology February 2020 issue out now
Top dogs: The challenger bank success stories of 2019.
JP Morgan plans to cut hundreds of jobs across consumer division
It will notify the impacted staff on 6 February.
The end of technology…
It’s time to drop the words “digital” and “tech”.
The rise of investment apps
There’s an appetite to save and invest despite low interest rates across Europe, Australia and the US.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 24 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
For the sake of fraud fighting: how to secure online transactions on the Russian market
All the new forms of digital interaction are getting particularly vulnerable to fraudulent activities.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 17 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
The problem with better banking
Surely banking customers want and deserve better banking?
Challenger Longevity Bank positions itself for the silver generation
EXCLUSIVE: Co-founder Sergey Balasanyan tells FinTech Futures of his 2020 plans with the neobank.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 11 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Cautious optimism and a customer-first approach for financial services in the 2020s
Alessandro Tonchia gives his fintech predictions as we enter a new decade.
Reasons behind the rise of fintech companies popularising stock market investing
Being financially successful is ‘cool’ and is a growing aspiration for younger generations.
RBS recruits army of digital influencers to promote banking app Bó
The sponsored posts were published after RBS was accused of writing fake reviews for Bó.
Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers hit by system outage
The incident took place from around 4am on New Year’s Day.
JP Morgan vows to ban fintech apps from using customer passwords
It’s working towards issuing tokens that send third parties a narrow range of data in a secure form.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 20 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Starling and Monzo hike up overdraft charges for bad credit scorers
Starling is currently the cheapest option only going as high as 35%.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 13 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Three more UK payday lenders collapse before Christmas: MMP and PiggyBank
The collapses follow regulatory clamp downs on affordability checks and compliance.
JP Morgan embroiled in yet another racism scandal
The New York Times obtained two recordings highlighting racial discrimination in the bank.
Banking Technology December 2019 / January 2020 issue out now
A year in review.
Mastercard and Doconomy bring carbon tracking to Bank of the West and Nordea
The news was unveiled at Madrid’s UN Climate Change Conference COP25.
Freetrade brings first native full stack solution to UK
The exec team come from Snapchat, Google and KPMG.
Jumia to close Rwandan business
It comes just weeks after it exited Cameroon and Tanzania.
Findexable report: London bests other European fintech hubs despite Brexit
San Francisco secured the top spot – up from eleventh place last year.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 06 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
The driverless bank
A truly digital organisation can live without one of the five P’s that typically creates friction.
Mexican lendtech start-up Konfio bags $100m investment led by SoftBank
This is the Latin American start-up’s fourth financing round.
Banking app Monese launches “first” cross-border joint account in Europe
Monese wants to offer an alternative to traditional banks’ “red tape”.
China gears up digital yuan with potential digitisation of ID cards ahead of 2020 launch
Now the central bank could be entering phase two of its project.
Toucan “first” to test bank account alert to help mental health sufferers
96% of UK mental health sufferers say the alert will be useful.
Singapore’s FinAccel raises $90m to make financing more accessible in Southeast Asia
FinAccel hits $500 million evaluation.
Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies set to raise $103m in Series C
Figure is also edging into the student financing space.
Berlin’s Raisin partners with Credorax to offer its German users retail deposits
Raisin is the first – and currently the only – company to offer Credorax’s retail deposits.
Appreciate Group and CleverGift collaborate on UK digital gift card
The card will be UK’s first multi-brand digital gift card.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Bank to unveil 600 cardless ATMs
The ATMs will use contactless technology and QR codes.
Canada’s neobank Koho secures extra $18.8m in Series B to diversify investors
The round was led by Drive Capital and National Bank of Canada’s VC arm, NAventures.
