How Canadian start-up Cinchy is transforming data for banks
Exclusive interview with Cinchy’s CEO. “Think of it as the end of fragmentation.”
Data & Analytics
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 24 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Payments security: A year in review
Majority of the largest breaches to be reported in 2019 were caused by poor security protocols.
What does open finance mean for the wealth management sector?
Five opportunities that are both clearly beneficial for investors, and technically very feasible for FIs to develop.
What the “decade of the data breach” can teach us
Organisations can simply no longer trust that an online user is who they claim to be.
Cloud: Does it deserve a bad rap from the Treasury?
The Treasury Committee singles out the cloud as a “source of systemic risk”.
Three steps to effectively automating accounts payable
The best automated AP solutions can integrate all kinds of information and content formats.
Health Insurance & Protection 2019/20 Report: Movers, Shakers & Opportunity Creators
Exclusive research, industry insight, opinion and predictions – free download available now.
Greece’s major banks cancel 15,000 cards after travel website breach
“A few dozen” customers had been charged with transactions they never made.
FCA admits it does not track frequency of funds that block investor withdrawals
The UK financial watchdog has been severely criticised for its lack of oversight of several funds.
Plaid and Honey: How consolidation helps and hinders competition
Consolidation is now becoming synonymous with standardisation – breeding competition.
For the sake of fraud fighting: how to secure online transactions on the Russian market
All the new forms of digital interaction are getting particularly vulnerable to fraudulent activities.
BMLL appoints Paul Humphrey as CEO
Johannes Sulzberger, outgoing CEO, will remain on the board as a non-exec director.
Equifax’s 2017 data breach will cost firm at least $1.38bn
$380.5m is for breach compensation, and $1 bn for information security overhaul.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 17 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
P&N Bank reveals customer data accessed in data breach
Names, addresses and bank balances may have been accessed in the breach.
Andrea Remyn Stone joins Refinitiv to boost open platforms development
Stone joins the firm from Dealogic, where she had been chief strategy officer since 2015.
Regtech: the new lifeblood of compliance
It changes the current compliance game for the better.
EBA underlines need for trust as industry adopts big data and analytics
European regulator observes that two-thirds of EU firms now producing big data services.
Macquarie to buy $2.1bn Australian data centre firm AirTrunk
AirTrunk operates data centres in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore.
BNY Mellon Markets appoints Paresh Shah as global COO for FX
He joins BNY from HSBC, where he held the role of COO Americas for FX.
Three ways fintech can address the gender pay gap
Define inclusion and diversity as two very different things.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 11 January 2020
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Bank of England and FCA plot internal data analytics shake-up
UK regulators outline plans to improve their data handling capabilities.
Accenture onboards 50% more female founders in 2020 fintech lab cohort
Accenture wants to narrow the gender gap in fintech.
Mitigating network outages in the financial services sector
How poor service levels from IT vendors are reflected in network outages and how to fix it.
White paper: Next-generation acquiring in Mediterranean countries
What merchant acquirers should do to outperform increasing competition from new entrants.
Hong Kong’s sustainable finance start-up MioTech closes Series A funding
The start-up wants to expand its presence in Singapore and Mainland China.
The California Consumer Privacy Act kicks in
And it doesn’t look like anyone, even the state of California itself, is totally ready.
Data Balance Podcast: building personal brand in the data industry
Insight into how women in the data industry can – and should – build their personal brand.
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.
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.
Mastercard reveals acquisition of AI-based risk firm RiskRecon
The deal with RiskRecon is expected to close in Q1 2020.
The desktop of 2020 and beyond
Clearly, these desktop application integration platforms need to evolve too.
Incumbents are putting aside religions of old, says cyber firm Veracode
The rise of cloud-native fintechs is “acting as a message to incumbents”, says CTO
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 20 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
White paper: What will the future of banking look like?
Rising up to the challenge of big tech, fintech and increased regulation.
Supplement: the 2019 fintech review
Ruby Hinchliffe dissects her top five 2019 fintech trends from this year’s top stories!
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 13 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
