Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on 27 April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of selected top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
Shares in Shawbrook rise more than six per cent on the specialist lender’s first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange.
Citi has teamed up with Swiss post-trade group SDX in a bid to develop tokenisation for private market assets.
In his annual letter to shareholders, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has singled out the “critical impact” of AI and the “essential” importance of migration to the cloud.
Klarna has moved to boost its in-store presence in the US, bringing its BNPL payment options to 100,000 merchant locations though a deal with Fiserv’s Clover point-of-sale business.
A new app for freelancers, called Puulse, has launched in the UK and Europe, providing free advance payments for gig workers experiencing a productivity lull.
US-based investment bank and global custodian BNY has agreed a deal with OpenAI, the creator of generative AI platform ChatGPT, to help with the development of the bank’s proprietary AI platform Eliza.
In its first venture into spending products, Plum has announced the launch of its degradable debit card, consolidating its position as a comprehensive money app.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has proposed a series of measures designed to strengthen funding for fintechs and startups within Europe.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a customer advisory warning to the public to keep an eye out for artificial intelligence (AI) scams.
Standard Chartered’s innovation arm has enlisted the help of Starling Bank for a digital platform that will help UK savers invest in green and sustainable projects.
As Sustainable Finance Live 2023 approaches on 10 October at Events@No6 London, Finextra spoke to a few speakers to provide attendees with an insight into what’s to come. This week we spoke with Chirine Ben Zaied, head of innovation at Finastra who will be mentoring the hackathon participants, which is taking place ahead of and during the conference.
A consortium of five global banks, including Barclays, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs and HSBC have formed a joint venture company to create a Position Reporting Utility for reporting securities holdings to regulatory bodies.
Chip has secured its first institutional investment, with the venture capital unit of UK TV station Channel 4 pumping £6 million into the digital wealth app at a £208 million valuation.
Looking to capitalise on explosive growth in cloud adoption by banking institutions, Swiss core banking vendor Temenos is extending its partnership with Google Cloud.