UK fintech sector attracts $4.1bn in venture capital in 2020 to rank second
The figures from Innovate Finance show that the US is ranked first with $22bn investments while Indonesia came…
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Finastra’s Fusion Invest made available through the cloud
19 Jan 21Moving Fusion Invest to the cloud is expected to eliminate the concerns over the on-premise hardware deployments for…
SWBC selects Mastercard’s Finicity for safe ACH payments
18 Jan 21Finicity’s open banking platform, Finicity Pay, will help SWBC to meet the National Automated Clearing House Association (Nacha)…
Three predictions for blockchain and cryptocurrency in 2020
03 Feb 20January marked the formal arrival of Liechtenstein’s Blockchain Act, one of the world's most advanced regulatory regimes for…
Gaining consumer trust in biometric payment authentication methods
24 Jan 20Increased consumer trust in biometric authentication also means being open to the frictionless benefits of password-free e-commerce on…
Technology trends in 2020: Smart wireless charging and ‘humanised’ AI assistants
01 Jan 20Blockchain could be propelled from the margins of cryptocurrency to mainstream applications
What is bunq? The Dutch mobile challenger bank with a social conscience
16 Sep 19The self-styled 'bank of the free', Amsterdam-based bunq was an early fintech pioneer in Europe. Here we take…
Meet the founder: Ali Niknam on building Dutch banking disruptor bunq
16 Sep 19Ali Niknam set about building Dutch mobile challenger bank bunq from the ground up in response to industry…
UK fintech Curve becomes fastest start-up to raise £4m on crowdfunding platform
03 Sep 19Referring to itself as an “over-the-top banking platform”, Curve connects all of a user’s accounts into a single…
ECB executive warns against the ‘siren call’ of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency
02 Sep 19Facebook's Libra offers 'treacherous promises' in its bid to oust traditional currencies, says European Central Bank executive Yves…