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Shawbrook names first head of fintech strategy and commercialisation
Just NowShawbrook Bank has named Stuart Doignie (pictured above) as its first head of fintech strategy and...
FCA requests further information about overdraft pricing
1 day agoThe FCA has asked major banks to provide evidence of how they arrive at pricing decisions for overdrafts...
Rigour builds resilience
5 days agoThere is a relentless flow of new technologies and development methodologies unfolding on many fronts in the...
Enhancing offerings to SMEs with the use of technology
5 days agoSmall- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up a significant proportion of British businesses...
New digital bank Vive receives banking licence
6 days agoNew digital bank Vive has received its UK banking licence with restrictions from the Bank of England...
Aldermore names Damian Thompson as new group MD for retail finance
7 days agoAldermore has named Damian Thompson (pictured above) as its new group managing director for retail finance,...
Tink closes €90m investment round
1 week agoTink has completed a €90m (approximately £76.8m) investment round — its largest funding to date — to...
Step back from the hype: what can AI realistically deliver in 2020?
1 week agoWhile talk of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services generates great excitement, it’s important not...
Temenos launches microservices architecture tool for large banks
1 week agoBanking software company Temenos has launched Temenos Transact — a microservices-based architecture tool...
Starling Bank enhances product offering for SMEs
1 week agoStarling Bank has enhanced its product offering for businesses and sole traders with a range of new features...
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Enhancing offerings to SMEs with the use of technology
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up a significant proportion of British businesses...
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Step back from the hype: what can AI realistically deliver in 2020?
While talk of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services generates great excitement, it’s important not to get too carried away and caught...
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2020 vision: Open Banking is open for business
Last year was a major one for Open Banking. September’s PSD2 deadline encouraged banks to accelerate their efforts to become compliant, and while...
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London: still the fintech capital of the world?
London is often considered the ‘fintech capital’ of the world thanks to its rising number of fintech unicorns — those private companies valued...
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B-North’s 2020 Outlook
B-North, the Manchester-based firm building an SME lending bank in the UK, has been making strong regulatory and technical progress in 2019...
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How the industrial sector is coping among uncertainty
Our ‘UK commercial property market report’ compiled by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) said that industrial property (such...
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When it comes to business, banks need to embrace the past as well as the future
Earlier this month, TSB chief executive Debbie Crosbie launched our new business strategy, setting out what we plan to achieve over the next...
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What does 2020 have in store for banks?
With 2020 just around the corner, I decided to explore the role of integration and automation projects, the drive to the cloud, smart banks and...
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What does responsible lending look like?
Lending responsibly is about much more than a bank managing the risk to itself...
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The identity challenge: how can banks know who’s who?
Technology has transformed the world of banking, bringing all manner of new services to the table and revolutionising the way that customers manage...
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An interview with Anand Subbaraman: Big tech companies edging into financial services will ‘take a chunk’ of the banking industry
In an interview with Specialist Banking, Anand Subbaraman, general manager of digital and retail banking products at Finastra (pictured above),...
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How we will walk the walk over sustainability
Creating a more sustainable world has not always topped the agenda, but individuals and businesses are increasingly holding a mirror up to themselves...