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• Brits want their banks to offer the latest fintech services but are not ready to use them

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 16 May 2019

London might be one of world’s fintech hubs, but Brits are still wary of new tech for banking

• Nationwide invests in behavioural AI startup

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 15 May 2019

Nationwide invests in a startup developing AI that can work out how it should change the way it communicates with different people.

• Striving to be a good bank at Tandem Bank: Fintech Interview 21

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 10 May 2019

Tandem Bank is using the latest technology to help people manage their finances and half a million have already taken up its offer

• Fintech Tink gets UK expansion rolling with NatWest deal

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 09 May 2019

Swedish fintech Tink gets its UK expansion going with NatWest deal

• Open banking take-up in the Netherlands less than expected because government promoted GDPR so well

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 08 May 2019

The Dutch government promoted GDPR so much to the public that take up of open banking has been low

• Azimo safeguards its EU passporting rights with Dutch licence

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 07 May 2019

Azimo makes Dutch office operational with licence and gaurantees itself the right to operate across EU after Brexit

• Banks changing APIs at short notice highlights a failing of open banking standard

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 02 May 2019

Why are the high street banks changing APIs so regularly and at such short notice?

• NatWest owned fintech reaches £50m mark for SME lending

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 May 2019

NatWest owned SME lending platform Esme Loans has lent more than £50m to UK SMEs over two years. Esme cuts the time it takes to apply for a loan to 10 minutes for SMEs, offering SMEs loans of up to ...

• Chancellor Hammond regrets uncertainty of the elephant in the room in speech to the fintechs

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 May 2019

Chancellor of the Exchequer addresses fintechs on day two of Innovate Finance Summit 2019

• Bank of England governor speaks as maiden UK Fintech Week begins

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 29 Apr 2019

The UK's first Fintech Week kicks off with Innovate Finance Global Summit

• Tink is building the foundation of every bank in the world: Fintech interview part 20

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Apr 2019

Tink is a Swedish fintech which realised a complete change of its business model was in order if it were to meet its growth potential

• Nationwide Building Society challenges seven fintechs to develop apps for financially vulnerable

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 23 Apr 2019

Nationwide Building Society offering fintechs funding and mentoring in a challenge to create apps for the financially vulnerable

• Facebook shutters Messenger payments in UK as Brits just not into it

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 17 Apr 2019

Facebook is closing its peer to peer payments service within Messenger in the UK because of limited take up

• Third of people would allow tech platform to automatically move mortgage

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 16 Apr 2019

Almost a third of people have such confidence in fin tech that they would allow a digtal platform to automatically move their mortgage to a better deal.

• Consumers will ditch bank if online experience falls short

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 10 Apr 2019

Would you ditch your bank or building society if its digital services didn't match up to Google?