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Atom taps Durham University maths department to develop new banking model
September 2nd, 2015
Digital challenger bank Atom is collaborating with Durham University and the UK government on a research project to develop a new model for retail banking. The project begins this autumn and is part-funded by Innovate UK, under the Knowledge ...
Newest UK bank Atom selects global tech giant FIS to offer digital banking
June 25th, 2015
Atom, the designed for digital challenger to the UK banking market, is partnering with FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in banking and payments technology as well as consulting and outsourcing solutions, to serve banking customers on the go. ...
Atom – the UK’s newest bank
June 24th, 2015
Atom Bank today announces that it has been granted its licence by the Bank of England, enabling it to push ahead with plans to launch products and services to customers later this year. Championing customer experience with a low-cost ...
Small Business skeptical to adopt Mobile Banking
March 9th, 2017
RateWatch, a leading banking data and analytics service owned by TheStreet, Inc. (TST) and Simon-Kucher & Partners, a strategy and marketing consulting firm, released the results from the 3rd Annual Monetizing Digital Banking Products for Small Business Customers survey. ...
App-only startup bank Monzo crowdfunding passed £2.5 million ($3.1 million) in less than 24 hours
March 1st, 2017
App-only startup bank Monzo has attracted enough initial interest in its £2.5 million ($3.1 million) crowdfunding campaign to fill it close to three times over, after less than 24 hours of pre-registration. Monzo opened pre-registrations for its crowdfunding at ...
Five fintech start-ups aiming to replace traditional banking
June 9th, 2016
According to recent data from Accenture, funding for fintech companies reached a staggering £3.7bn in the first quarter of 2016 alone. With global investment growing at such a rapid rate, traditional banking services are finally beginning to realise the ...
BBVA announces the acquisition of an online business banking service
March 7th, 2016
BBVA today announces the acquisition of Holvi, the Helsinki-based online business banking service, as it seeks to expand its portfolio of digital businesses to complement the Group’s overall transformation process. Holvi, which was founded in 2011, and describes its offering ...
How are banks actually going to use blockchains and smart contracts?
January 25th, 2016
Banks are now officially collaborating on connected distributed ledgers, something of a milestone in the blockchain narrative. But how are they actually going to use computational blockchains that can operate that well-known term of art – “smart contracts”? Dr ...
Commonwealth Bank Increases support for Australian leadership in Quantum Computing
December 9th, 2015
Commonwealth Bank has provided in-principle commitment for an additional $10 million to support Australian researchers who are well advanced in their efforts to build the world’s first silicon-based quantum computer in Sydney. CBA welcomes the Australian Government’s decision to ...
BBVA enters Britain with £45m Atom deal
November 24th, 2015
BBVA has become the most recent Spanish bank to make an entry into the British market, following in the footsteps of Sabadell and Santander. It bought a 29.5% stake in Atom to become the single-largest shareholder in UK’s first ...
