Issue #282 - Where Challenger Banks May Yet Stumble

These writers, bloggers and podcasters keep their audiences up to date with every tech twist and turn in the financial services industry.

Echoing Prime Minister’s Boris Johnson pledge to 'double down on levelling up' the UK economy, Citi Bank’s Tony McLaughlin believes the country can become an even more friendly environment for fintech and should be looking outside “a small perimeter around Old Street”.

For decades, traditional financial services institutions have remained comfortably complacent in their business models, resistant to significant change or disruption.

Mastercard has built a virtual testing platform to help central banks assess and explore national digital currencies.

4 Important Data Security Tips to Protect FinTech Organizations with Remote Workers

The term fintech might conjure futuristic ideas of the merging of traditional finances with technology. But fintech already likely holds a prominent place in your daily life.

Mode, a UK fintech startup established by Jonathan Rowland, co-founder and director of UK challenger Redwood Bank, is looking to raise £7.5 million through a float on the London Stock Exchange.

“A pandemic-led acceleration of adoption.”

A previously undisclosed vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core software could have allowed attackers to steal funds, delay settlements or split the largest blockchain network into conflicting versions had it not been quietly patched two years ago.

The European Commission is investigating Visa's rules for fintech companies using its network, the company has revealted.