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SEB leaps onto Google Cloud

Sweden's SEB is going all-in on Google Cloud, accelerating a shift that will bring a raft of new products to retail and corporate customers based on data, analytics, and AI.

23 March 2021

News/people

Google Pay head Sengupta steps down

Google's head of payments, Caesar Sengupta, is quitting the tech giant after fifteen years.

22 March 2021

News/people

Robinhood names Google's Chennapragada chief product officer

Trading app Robinhood has hired former Google executive Aparna Chennapragada as its first chief product officer.

18 March 2021

News/cloud

HSBC taps Google Cloud for call centre AI

HSBC has enlisted Google Cloud to build a global call centre AI chatbot that helps employees cut down on the time they spend on manually intensive queries.

12 March 2021

Company announcement/startups

Google for Startups opens applications for $2 Million European fund for Black founded tech startups

Google for Startups announces applications are now open for $2million (approximately £1.5million) Black Founders Fund for Black-led tech startups across Europe.

02 March 2021

News/payments

Facebook and Google eye Indian digital payment network - Economic Times

Facebook and Google are teaming up with Indian firms Infibeam and Reliance Industries on an application to set up a national digital payment network in the South Asian country, according to the Economic Times.

01 March 2021

News/cloud

HSBC shifts R3 Corda to Google Cloud

HSBC has become the first bank to start using R3's Corda enterprise blockchain network on Google Cloud.

26 February 2021

News/cloud

BBVA taps Google Cloud Chronicle to build AI security platform

BBVA has today announced that it will be the first bank in Europe to deploy Google Cloud’s security analytics platform Chronicle and will use AI and machine learning to predict and prevent cyberattacks.

23 February 2021

News/payments

Google introduces pay for parking within Google Maps

Google has released a new feature which lets consumers pay for parking and transit fares directly from within Google Maps.

19 February 2021

Company announcement/cloud

Global Payments forms partnership with Google

Global Payments Inc. and Google today announced an expansive multi-year partnership to deliver innovative cloud-based products and capabilities, enabling best-in-class digital merchant customer experiences worldwide.

08 February 2021

News/cloud

BNY Mellon taps Google Cloud to forecast settlement failures

The Bank of New York Mellon is working with Google Cloud to help clients better predict billions of dollars in daily treasury market settlement failures to improve market liquidity.

08 February 2021

News/predictions

Dimon 'scared shitless' by fintechs; calls out Plaid

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says incumbent banks should be "scared shitless" by fintech rivals, adding that some - including Plaid - are competing unfairly.

18 January 2021

Company announcement/cloud

Intesa Sanpaolo and Google conclude regional cloud agreement

Building upon a Memorandum of Understanding signed on 21 May 2020, Intesa Sanpaolo, TIM and Google Cloud have signed the final agreements on the basis of which the Bank will migrate a large part of its information system to Google Cloud, which will meet the highest international security and data protection standards and will rely on TIM’s Italian Data Centers in Milan and Turin.

04 January 2021

News/people

Deutsche Bank gets better engineer job applicants after Google tie-up

Deutsche Bank is getting a better quality of applicants of engineering jobs thanks to a "halo effect" from its recently announced partnership with Google Cloud.

11 December 2020

Company announcement/cloud

Google Cloud names leader for Southeast Asia business

Google Cloud today announced the appointment of Ruma Balasubramanian as Managing Director for Southeast Asia.

07 December 2020

News/inclusion

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: ‘Online has been a lifeline in Southeast Asia’

Speaking at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020, CEO of Alphabet Inc and its subsidiary Google Sundar Pichai highlights that “online has been a lifeline in Southeast Asia” and eight out of 10 people have revealed that “technology helped them navigate the pandemic.”

07 December 2020

News/cloud

Cynergy Bank contracts with Google Cloud and Wipro to blend human touch with neobanking know-how

SME bank Cynergy Bank has contracted with Google Cloud and Wipro for the build of a digital relationship platform, aligning face-to-face contact with the technical know-how of an app-only startup.

23 November 2020

Company announcement/payments

Citi picks Mastercard for Plex Account by Google Pay

Today, Citi announced it has selected Mastercard as its network partner for the Citi Plex Account on Google Pay, a new digital checking and savings account built with financial wellness and mobile functionality at the core of the design to make managing money simpler, smarter and more rewarding.

19 November 2020

Company announcement/payments

Fiserv enables ExxonMobil integration with Google Pay

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, today announced it is enabling ExxonMobil to deliver a new omnichannel commerce experience within the enhanced Google Pay mobile application.

19 November 2020

News/payments

Google Pay gets major overhaul

The Google Pay app has been given a makeover, growing from a simple payments tool to a full-blown financial management service and, from early next year, a gateway to a full bank account.

18 November 2020