Westpac is launching an initiative to crowdsource ideas for mobile banking apps from New Zealand developers and designers, with up to $70,000 of prizes for the winning applications.

At the Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2024 conference in Berlin, Evelien Witlox from the European Central Bank (ECB) presented a keynote on the possibilities of a digital euro.

A pair of JPMorgan Chase coders have been given the green light to bring their data skills to the trading floor.

Financial analytics vendor FactSet is migrating its real-time ticker plant to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

BBVA has set up an ‘AI Factory’, housing over 150 data scientists, engineering and departmental heads to create a global hothouse for smart, data driven technology development.

Amid continued concerns around the impact Brexit will have on the talent deficit in the financial services industry, Felicity Burch, director of innovation and digital at CBI and Omar Ali, partner at EY discuss how to inspire the next generation of fintech talent with Finextra.

Mastercard has selected Token.io to provide the connectivity layer of its forthcoming Open Banking hub, which will connect merchants, retailers and other regulated third parties to financial institutions in Europe for data and payment transactions.

In this preview of a Mastercard report being released in early 2025, leaders at the card processer say that generative AI is emerging as critical to boosting fraud protection rates by as much as 300%.