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      • Small banks you’ve never heard of are quietly enabling fintech companies
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Strategic Agility

 Bob Bartleson  December 23, 2019

Finextra

  • AI, HR and financial services: Modernising banking systems from front to back

    How should FIs embed AI into their core banking systems?

  • Digital sovereignty: The key deliverable of banking transformation

    How FIs can achieve banking transformation as well as digital sovereignty.

  • From copilot to autopilot: Exploring agentic AI’s impact on treasury

    How can agentic AI empower bank and corporate treasurers?

  • Scaling fintech in Europe: barriers, opportunities, and what comes next

    What differentiates the next generation of European fintech?

  • Europe’s Fraud Reality Check: Complexity is rising, control must follow

    What are the most pressing fraud patterns impacting European banks?

MIT Technology Review – AI

  • The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking

    Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine.  It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming […]

  • Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of […]

  • A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs

    The Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language […]

  • Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

    At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let out a collective sigh and did what they so often do in […]

  • Why do South Koreans love AI so much?

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after a grueling 12-hour flight from […]

Financial Times – FinTech

  • JPMorgan plans Chase expansion into Europe’s largest markets

    US lender eyes France, Spain and Italy as it aims to grow digital bank

  • Lessons from Ireland’s Revolut revolution

    The fintech’s model is proving more suitable for international scaling than the often outdated systems of legacy rivals

  • eToro exploring acquisitions amid push into traditional banking services

    Digital trading platform could apply for banking licence

  • Business Education: Financial Training

    The FT’s 2026 Masters in Finance Ranking. Plus: tough jobs market drives applications; ‘near-peer’ mentoring; skills for the AI era; calls for more private markets teaching; why soft skills […]

  • Is Tether the Coppernose of our time?

    USDT vs USDC

Quantum Computing Report

  • Manufacturing Throughput, Iteration Speed, and the Economics of Fabrication

    By Mohamed Abdel-Kareem Moving to standard CMOS wafer manufacturing is very helpful for certain modalities but not all. The real competitive advantages come from fabrication throughput—measured in […]

  • Aegiq Launches New Sheffield Headquarters and Expands Semiconductor Partnership for Photonic Scaling

    UK-based photonic quantum computing developer Aegiq has opened its new corporate headquarters in Sheffield, establishing a localized center of excellence dedicated to scaling its full-stack quantum […]

  • Aegiq Expands Strategic Footprint via European Pilot Frameworks and Advanced Aerospace Alliances

    UK-based photonic quantum computing company Aegiq has secured a series of international research partnerships and industrial defense collaborations designed to transition its full-stack hardware […]

  • RIKEN Launches ROQUO Supercomputer to Drive Full-Scale Quantum-HPC System Integration

    The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) has completed the installation and initiated the operational launch of its new supercomputer, "ROQUO," at its campus in Kobe, Japan. Developed under […]

  • Quantum Computing Inc. Completes $73.1 Million Acquisition of NHanced Semiconductors

    Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) has completed the acquisition of advanced packaging foundry NHanced Semiconductors, Inc. for a combination of cash and stock valued at $73.1 million. The transaction […]

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