Finovate Global Ireland: Hiring Tech Talent, Banning ChatGPT, and Shining a Spotlight on Fintech in Northern Ireland

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Ireland’s Central Bank to Staff: No ChatGPT for You! While organizations, institutions, and businesses of all kinds are scrambling to figure out how to best make use of generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, the Central Bank of Ireland already has staked out a position – at least for its employees. Ireland’s The Business Post reported Read more…

Stripe and Amazon Expand Payments Partnership

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Stripe and Amazon have agreed to “significantly expand” their partnership. Under the agreement, Stripe will process a notable portion of Amazon’s total payments volume. The two have been partners since 2017. Payments infrastructure company Stripe announced today that Amazon has agreed to “significantly expand” its use of its core platform, recruiting the California-based company as Read more…

PayPal Offers Passkey Authentication to Apple Users and Venmo Payments to Amazon Shoppers

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PayPal will enable Apple users to log in to their accounts with passkeys rather than passwords. PayPal also announced that Amazon had authorized Venmo as a payment option. PayPal made its Finovate debut more than a decade ago at FinovateSpring 2011. Two days in and it’s already been a pretty good week for PayPal. On Read more…

From Investment to Innovation: What Can We Learn from a World of Unicorns?

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Earlier this year, PwC’s Vicki Huff Eckert published a report that looked at the impact of VC investment on the technology industry. Eckert is Vice Chair for Technology, Media, and Communications – and the global leader of New Ventures and Innovation – for PwC. She will be featured at FinovateSpring next week in San Francisco Read more…

Currencycloud Debuts Weekend FX Trading

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Currencycloud launched a new tool called WeekendFX. The new tool enables clients to offer competitive FX rates on weekends when markets are closed. Currencycloud is launching WeekendFX in partnership with Visa, which acquired Currencycloud last July. Visa’s Currencycloud launched a new tool this week called WeekendFX. The new offering will do just as it sounds– Read more…

Digital is Global, E-Currency for the Eurozone, Open Banking in Switzerland

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FinovateFall: Digital AND Global What’s to like about FinovateFall Digital, our all-digital fintech conference starting Monday, September 14th and continuing through Friday, the 18th? A CEO from one of our demoing companies pointed out that one of the special things about this fall’s conference is that because the FinovateFall is all-digital, it enables people all Read more…

New York’s Finest: Catching Up with FinovateFall’s Best of Show

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What have the companies that won Best of Show awards at last year’s FinovateFall conference been up to in the months since our New York show? With our autumn event less than a month away, we thought it would be a great time to check in on the nine companies that took home top honors Read more…

Microsoft-backed Digital Asset Company Bakkt Raises $300 Million

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With the support of PayU and Microsoft’s venture capital division M12, digital assets startup Bakkt has picked up a whopping $300 million in Series B funding. The round, which closed last Friday, also featured participation from Boston Consulting Group, Goldfinch Partners, CMT Digital, Pantera Capital, and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Bakkt’s parent company. “Bakkt launched two Read more…