Emirates NBD completes third phase of its core banking systems upgrade
The project sees the roll-out of the new core banking system for Emirates NBD Saudi Arabia.
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HSBC to shut down Hong Kong ATMs after protest vandalism
Protestors also attempted to damage the bank’s famous lion statues.
ICBA welcomes Charles Potts as the new chief innovation officer
Potts’ extensive financial services experience spans more than 25 years.
Qatar International Islamic Bank picks IBM for fraud prevention
QIIB selects Big Blue for its mobile and online banking channels.
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.
Two UK credit unions live on TCS Bancs
TCS confirms Voyager Alliance and RetailCUre deployment of cloud-based Bancs.
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.
BBVA trials Amazon platform for banking products
The Spanish bank is exploring options via a partnership with a Michelin star restaurant.
China suspends London-Shanghai exchange partnership
The rumoured order comes amid rising political tensions.
Better serve your customers by focusing on your employees
This isn’t a question of profit or people, but rather people in order to profit.
Omnio lands €15m in private placement
Further €10 million anticipated in January 2020.
Standard Chartered appoints new CIO of corporate, commercial & institutional banking
Rene W. Keller joins Standard Chartered from Deutsche Bank.
SME challenger bank B-North raises £2m funding
The bank’s first regional “Lending Pod” will open in Manchester in Q2 2020.
BoE’s Carney says finance is too slow on tackling climate change issues
Carney is due to become the United Nations’ special envoy for climate change.
HSBC plans new restructure with France and USA in firing line
The global bank is aiming to cut costs and weed out loss-making divisions.
Razer Fintech, Grab and Singtel bid for Singapore digital banking licence
There are only five of the new licences up for grabs.
Former Starling Bank CTO plans 2020 launch of crypto digital bank
Mark Hipperson is CEO of Ziglu, an app that will allow users to trade cryptocurrency
Fintech’s largest mergers and deals in 2019
What deals shook the market this year? We find them so you don’t have to
2019’s biggest banking job cuts
Digital transformation can lead to unhappy consequences.
CBI’s CEO on gender diversity in banking and how it’s changing
She is optimistic about the last eight years she’s spent as a CEO.
Our top women in fintech and banking 2019 short list
A short-list of rising stars and household names in banking and fintech.
A 2019 challenger bank review
B-North’s COO takes a look back at what 2019 had in store for banks.
Top 7 banking outages in second half of 2019
Banking outages have hit headlines thick and fast this year.
Deutsche Bank launches motion code Calma Card with Mastercard in Spain
The major companies say it’s the first Spanish card to use motion code technology.
Next year looks bright for community banking
Credit unions and community banks raise their game in 2020.
2019’s largest regulatory fines
The biggest charges levied by regulators this year, summarised for you.
UK fintech Rebank raises $2.8m seed round to help businesses bank
The start-up sits on top of businesses’ bank accounts.
Australia delay open banking regulation by six months over cybersecurity concerns
Banks are “extremely concerned about cybersecurity”, says ACCC.
Gen Z are the bank customers of the near future
Learn how banks can balance engaging with this group, millennials and older customers.
Challenger banks in the Middle East
Featuring challenger banks in the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Banking’s biggest core go-lives in 2019
Always exciting, sometimes terrifying, here are the biggest ‘go-lives’ in core banking 2019.
OP Financial Group signs Minna Technologies to advance open banking
Finland’s largest financial group calls the partnership “the right match”.
Virtual ATM provider Sonect raises $8.6m in Series A
The start-up raised CHF 8.45 million from existing investors in this round, which was oversubscribed.
How pursuing an OpenAPI strategy has helped Saxo build an ecosystem
An ecosystem doesn’t live and breathe by itself.
2019’s top core banking deals
The core deals which made waves this year, summarised just for you.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 20 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
ANZ overcharges 3.4 million customers, only 30% paid back
One million customers have been reimbursed so far with an average of $60 each.
FinTech Futures Industry Survey 2020
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Finovate Podcast: Episodes 11-20
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