Digital Banking Weekly #61

6th September 2020 - 13th September 2020

🇨🇭 Credit Suisse launches Switzerland's first major digital banking rival: CSX 🔗 Read more

🇦🇪 klip digital cash now live with First AbuDhabi Bank, Mashreq and National Bank of Fujairah 🔗 Read more

💶 The president of the European Central Bank, ChristineLagarde, has suggested that the Euro Zone's central bankers are close tomaking a decision on whether to press ahead with the development of a centralbank digital currency (CBDC) 🔗 Read more

🇭🇺 Hungarian startup PeasyPay is preparing toexpand its biometrics-based point-of-sale payments technology to Spainand the UK 🔗 Read more 

📄 Survey: 73% of businesses more likely to select a bank with fully digital onboarding process,reveals Encompass 🔗 Read more 

🇧🇷 Brazilian digital banking giant Nubank isentering the investment market through the acquisition of local platform Easynvest🔗 Read more

💱 Mastercard launches Central Bank DigitalCurrencies (CBDCs) testing platform, enabling central banks to assess andexplore national digital currencies 🔗 Read more

🇦🇪 Standard Chartered has launched a newinstalment payment offering for customers shopping on Amazon in the UAE 🔗 Read more

🇬🇧 Starling Bank has announced the launch of itsnew children’s debit card today, in time with schools beginning to reopen inthe UK 🔗 Read more 

🇪🇸 Santander is spinning out its Innoventuresfintech VC unit and doubling its commitment to the newly autonomous fund to$400 million 🔗 Read more 

🇲🇽 Latin American fintech Übank, which offersautomated savings app, plans expansion into the US 🔗 Read more

💰 Temasek Holdings and Saudi Arabia’s SovereignFund reportedly considering investments in Ant Group’s planned IPO 🔗 Read more

💸 Savings app Chip raises over £10m on Crowdcube.Nearly half of the money raised comes from UK government-backed Future Fund🔗 Read more

🇧🇭 Central Bank ofBahrain launches coding service for payment 🔗 Read more 

📢 Railsbank CEO Nigel Verdon: Why webought Wirecard UK? 🔗 Read more

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