Tag: banking

January 17, 2024

Berlin-based banking startup N26 is rolling out a new stock and ETF trading feature starting with Austria as the first market. This product launch marks a renewed focus on the startup’s core markets with a larger portfolio of banking products […]

December 1, 2023

Now in their 24th year, the awards acknowledge key developments in banking, finance, and technology. This year, we recognised a broad range of organisations, from established players to emerging fintech start-ups. The awards ceremony took place at the 5-star Royal […]

October 25, 2023

With the new licence, Elavon says it will be able to “grow and provide the right payments and banking solutions for UK clients” including authorisation, settlement, card machines and banking services. The licence also covers the full extent of Elavon’s […]

June 16, 2023

In 1992, I wrote a paper on the future of application development for Lloyds Bank. My paper described a vision of “end user development” to maximise flexibility and reduce cost of development. In this paper I called for the bank […]

May 19, 2023

For me, although I have been coding since I was 12, it was not until much later that I realised the true power of data. I started at Lloyds Bank in 1986 as a trainee (not graduate) programmer and was […]

March 24, 2023

Liquidity concerns in the cryptocurrency markets have been growing, and recent collapses in the banking sector have only served to exacerbate an already precarious situation. Analyst Conor Ryder from Kaiko Research addressed this issue in a recent blog post, examining […]

March 24, 2023

These sound like crazy questions, right? Banks have been banking for over 100 years, why would that change? Let me draw a parallel with the telecoms industry. Initially, we sent smoke signals or used drums to communicate with other humans […]

December 27, 2022

FinTech companies are attracting a lot of interest from investors these days. This is because these companies have numerous advantages over traditional financial institutions. Players like PayPal, Square, and Stripe have made it easy for people to do their banking […]

December 7, 2022

Stablecoins could have such a profound effect on the established banking system that U.S. regulators need to require the digital tokens fit in without disrupting it, said Martin Gruenberg, the acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), at […]

December 6, 2022

Severe summer droughts, extreme storms and much more have shown how new weather patterns threaten us. However, the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine has made energy security even more of an issue than sustainability, and the poor […]