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      • Small banks you’ve never heard of are quietly enabling fintech companies
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        • Empower: Can This Fintech Bank Power Up Your Financials?
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        • Upgrade Bank: Can Your Banking Level Up?
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UX Designer

 Bob Bartleson  December 23, 2019
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Finextra

  • Social banking and regenerative finance: From ideas to resilient social and nature-based assets

    What practical solutions can emerge when we combine open-source tools, community data, and collaborative innovation in a hackathon setting?

  • 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?

MIT Technology Review – AI

  • LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.

    Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type […]

  • Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

    At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same […]

  • Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t

    Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork.  The use cases are promising, […]

  • AI agents are not your “coworkers”

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will […]

  • Agent confidence on the technical frontier

    Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI […]

Financial Times – FinTech

  • Google ordered to pay Klarna $2bn antitrust damages

    Swedish court rules search engine favoured its own price-comparison tool over fintech’s PriceRunner site

  • Atom Bank sale on cusp of collapse

    Shareholders targeted £600mn valuation but process has failed to attract bids at desired price

  • Revolut scraps ‘remote-first’ working for graduate hires

    Europe’s most valuable fintech will require junior staff to spend at least three days a week in the office from next year

  • Mongolian footballing minnows meet the cruelties of crypto

    A brief history of Brera Ilch FC, who struggled to handle the pivot

  • The Indian entrepreneur who will lead WhatsApp

    Kunal Shah has experience in building transaction platforms and insights into emerging markets

Quantum Computing Report

  • QPerfect and BTQ Technologies Engineer First Circuit-Level Quantum One-Shot Signature Scheme

    Researchers from quantum software startup QPerfect and cryptographic infrastructure firm BTQ Technologies have published a joint preprint on arXiv detailing the first concrete, circuit-level […]

  • BTQ Technologies Secures French FDI Clearance for Full Acquisition of QPerfect to Build Fault-Tolerant Sovereign Infrastructure

    Quantum networking and security developer BTQ Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq: BTQ | CBOE CA: BTQ) has received final regulatory approval from the French Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) authorities to […]

  • NSA and Army Research Office Launch Joint QuantumEAGLe Initiative to Secure Sovereign Hardware Supply Chains

    The Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the National Security Agency (NSA), in coordination with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Office (ARO), has […]

  • IQM Quantum Computers Completes Nasdaq Merger via Real Asset Acquisition Corp. to Establish Liquid Public Capitalization

    Superconducting hardware manufacturer IQM Quantum Computers has finalized its definitive business combination with special purpose acquisition company Real Asset Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: RAAQ). The […]

  • Crédit Agricole CIB and Pasqal Execute Strategic Production Roadmap for Neutral Atom Quantum Finance Deploys

    Crédit Agricole CIB, the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, has finalized a strategic production partnership with neutral atom hardware developer Pasqal to transition […]

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