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JPMorgan opens Glasgow tech centre

JPMorgan Chase has opened a newly-built, sustainably-designed, multi-million pound office in Glasgow to house thousands of technology workers.

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Standard Chartered opens API marketplace

Standard Chartered has opened an API marketplace for businesses to test potential applications in a sandbox environment.

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Temenos appoints CEO; says sales hit by Hindenburg report

Temenos says allegations of mismanagement made by short seller Hindenburg Research led to a temporary "lengthening of sales cycles" in the first quarter. Meanwhile, the core banking vendor has appointed former VMWare executive Jean-Pierre Brulard as CEO.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: The current state of play of cross-border payments

Moderating the second panel of the day, Niamh Curran, senior reporter at Finextra, discussed real-time cross border payments with Patrik Havander, head of B2B Connect Europe at Visa, Christian Schwarz, director payments Europe at Finastra, Dr Hubertus von Poser, member of the management board at PPI, Colin Williams, global lead for clearing transformation at J.P. Morgan, and Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Svenska Handelsbanken.

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Goldman Sachs offloads Marcus robo-advisor customers to Betterment

Goldman Sachs continues its retreat from consumer banking, striking a deal to sell its Marcus Invest digital investing accounts to Betterment.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: Nordics can look outwards for new instant payments approaches

In the first panel of NextGen Nordics 2024, Finextra’s head of content Madhvi Mavadiya moderated the session: ‘Instant payments – how to prepare for RIX-INST on TIPS and the benefits of starting with Swish’.

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NextGen Nordics 2024: NPC promoting innovation and harmonisation in the Nordics

NextGen Nordics, Finextra’s annual payments event, kicked off on April 23 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden, bringing together an array of experts and leaders in the Nordics payments industry.

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Monzo offers customers free sausage rolls in premium subscription drive

Monzo is enticing customers to shell out for a new range of premium accounts, offering benefits such as a free weekly snack at Greggs and discounted train travel.

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Mauritania commissions G+D to design CBDC

The Central Bank of Mauritania has commissioned Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) to design a digital form of the national currency Ouguiya as a complement to cash.

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Monese plots break-up amid mounting losses

Troubled mobile banking startup Monese is formulating plans to splinter the business into separate consumer-facing and corporate concerns amid mounting losses.

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