Tag: HSBC

The boss of one of Britain’s biggest banks has said it welcomes “crazy” ideas which come from FinTech startups. Read more: www.cityam.com

Chancellor Philip Hammond will call for the 'growing and strengthening' of UK FinTech in a speech at the Treasury's first International FinTech conference. Read more: uk.businessinsider.com

HSBC and Tradeshift collaborate on a platform to help businesses digitally manage their supply chains, from supply chain finance to digital documentation. Read more: www.pymnts.com

VocaLink’s Pay by Bank mobile payment app will soon be available to customers of HSBC and its subsidiary. Read more: www.bankingtech.com

Financial services big data and analytics company Quantexa has landed a $3.3m investment from Albion Ventures and HSBC. Read more: www.fintechroundup.com

HSBC is to launch a P2P mobile payment app in Hong Kong in early 2017, taking on established market operator Jetco. Read more: www.finextra.com

HSBC has acted quickly to meet the UK Competition and Markets Authority's decision to require big banks to open up certain data via APIs by the end of the first quarter of 2017. Read more: www.finextra.com

The biometric authentication company Veridium has named a former HSBC FinTech executive, James Stickland, as its new CEO. Read more: www.americanbanker.com

Originally seeking to raise $200m by offering prospective investors a 90% stake, R3 restructured the deal to $150m in return for a 60% stake in itself. Read more: www.venturebeat.com

Basically, blockchain offers something new and previously unattainable — automated authentication. Read more: www.fintechranking.com