Tag: BankingTech

January 25, 2023

Will it be tokenisation? The metaverse? A new revolutionary payment mechanism? Or something else more abstract? The opportunities are endless… but one concept dominates the retail banking world and continues to be discussed year in year out: how can banks […]

January 11, 2023

Writing on LinkedIn, the firm says that due to “challenging times” and despite its best efforts, “we were unable to overcome the market dynamics to raise additional funding”. Ruuky says the decision to file for insolvency “was not taken lightly” […]

December 28, 2022

Despite the necessity of driving individualised experiences, the banking industry is struggling to keep up with retailers, media and tech companies in delivering these highly tailored interactions and product offerings to their customers. And considering that millennials and Gen Z […]

October 1, 2021

HSBC has hired former Google executive Aman Narain to lead its global commercial banking platforms. Narain, who describes himself as a “banker turned Googler”, spent four years at the Big Tech before leaving as global new payments ecosystems lead. His […]

August 17, 2021

Many financial institutes are hundreds of years old, and with that comes legacy systems and ingrained cultures that aren’t easy to change. Yet, as customer expectations shifted, banks and financial services companies had to totally rethink how they serve customers […]

July 27, 2021

Today, UK fintechs make up 10% of global market share, are collectively worth more than £11 billion in annual revenue, and earned more investment than the next five biggest European countries combined. Seeking to capitalise on this staggering growth, the […]

May 5, 2021

The bank’s global information-security unit spends the majority of this budget on staff and technology. Bessant added in a briefing on Monday, as reported by American Banker, that cyberattacks have surged “dramatically” during the pandemic. “Criminals are by definition very […]

March 8, 2021

The attack is part of a widespread assault on organisations running Microsoft Exchange servers. Microsoft has issued emergency patches, but many believe servers could have been backdoored by criminals. The EBA says is has “swiftly launched a full investigation” in […]

February 19, 2021

This is a sizeable figure and one that could grow if the economic impact of COVID-19 worsens. According to one BBC report, two million people deferred repayments on credit cards and loans at the height of the pandemic in spring […]

February 15, 2021

With TS Anil moving from US to UK CEO last year, a vacancy opened up for a new stateside boss at the UK challenger. Nelson previously served as a top executive for more than four years at Cleveland-based KeyBank. She’s […]

November 10, 2020

There’s an obvious place they could look to for guidance: their local bank branches. Trusted with the savings and everyday spending of millions of customers, retail banks are ideally positioned to own the conversation around budgeting, savings, and debt reduction. […]

December 12, 2018

According to digital knowledge management (DKM) platform Yext, this will help the bank’s staff enhance prospecting success. “Artificial intelligence (AI) powered services have transformed the way people search for financial services, making it vital for financial advisors to provide direct […]

December 3, 2018

In the European Payments Council’s (EPC) “2018 Payment Threats and Fraud Trends Report”, it provides a bleak and very lengthy overview of the most important threats in the payments landscape. There is a lot to mention, but the EPC raised […]

September 7, 2018

According to sources that spoke with Business Insider, executives recently came to the conclusion that many steps still need to be taken, most of them outside the bank’s control, before a regulated bank would be allowed to trade cryptocurrencies. However, […]

June 11, 2018

The United Services Automobile Association (USAA) is suing on grounds of intellectual property charges for unspecified damages, over USAA’s remote deposit capture patents. San Antonio-based USAA claims to have invented such tech, and thus started demanding licensing fees from banks […]

June 4, 2018

The jointly developed chatbot-to-chatbot communication solution replaces manual responses to status updates on customers’ securities trades on the messaging platform Symphony. For references, processes that used to previously take up to three minutes for a single trade will now be […]

May 11, 2018

The WSJ cited people with knowledge of the process, and says the move comes as Goldman continues to make a push into consumer banking activities such as deposit-taking and personal loans. In a major blow to Barclays, the WSJ says […]