AIB and Frontline Ventures have launched the second AIB Discovery Programme, which will provide 15 high-potential technology start-ups with up to €200,000 in funding Lloyds Bank has agreed to let Intuit QuickBooks customers in the UK automatically import transactions...
Banks are growing concerned about the debts being amassed by universities as they try to attract students. One unnamed bank has indicated that it is so concerned about some universities’ financial strength that it has put them into special measures Ping Identity has...
HSBC, Barclays and the Government Digital Service have partnered with Orange, OT-Morpho and the Open Identity Exchange to test a system through which French citizens can open a bank account in the UK under eIDAS Orange has indicated that it is close to launching its...
ECB has warned British banks planning to relocate operations to another country in the EU before Brexit that it will not grant licences to ‘empty shells’. Sabine Lautenschlager, a senior regulator, also said banks were falling behind schedule in making preparations...
R3, the blockchain consortium, is close to coming to market with its first commercial pilot product. A group of 11 banks, including HSBC and RBS, are poised to start testing an application that aims to cut costs and inefficiencies in trade financing that has been...
Fiinu, a UK start-up building a ‘blockchain-friendly’ bank, has appointed Andy Briscoe, chair of The Money Advice Service, as chairman. It has also appointed Bank of England and Santander veteran David Hopton as a non-executive director. Fiinu is currently applying...
