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Techstars cuts staff as JP Morgan-backed programme ends

Startup accelerator Techstars is cutting its workforce by 17% and killing off its $80 million JP Morgan-backed Advancing Cities programme.

12 August 2024

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JP Morgan preps more biometric payment pilots

JP Morgan is teaming up with vendor PopID to trial pay-by-face biometric payments with merchants across the US.

07 August 2024

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SEPA, ISO 20022 and the Road to Innovation and Resiliency

At EBAday 2024, Renata Vilanova Lobo, Head of Global Clearing, J.P. Morgan Payments, explores the cross-border impact of SEPA on European and global interoperability and why ISO 20022 is crucial for financial institutions. There is an urgency for financial institutions to transition because of deadlines, but also due to the great benefits this change can bring to the industry, being the biggest change in payments in the last 30 years. Resiliency plays a critical role in today's landscape and it is expanding its concept; as a result, and banks must consider geopolitics, economic downturns and unforeseen challenges on top of operational stability.

19 July 2024

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JP Morgan invests in B2B payments platform Slope

JP Morgan is making an equity investment in, and providing a debt facility to, AI-led business-to-business payments platform Slope.

17 July 2024

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Bank-backed DLT-based payments network Partior raises $60m

Partior, the bank-backed fintech behind a global unified ledger-based interbank rails for real-time clearing and settlement, has raised $60 million in Series B funding.

15 July 2024

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EBAday 2024: Turning European dialogue into solutions for the new payments era

Wolfgang Ehrmann, chairman of the board at Euro Banking Association (EBA) kicked off the first day of the 19th EBAday with a speech welcoming all delegates.

18 June 2024

News/regulation

JP Morgan to pay $100m for client order monitoring failures

JP Morgan will pay $100 million to settle a CFTC probe that concluded the bank failed to properly monitor billions of client orders between 2014 and 2021.

27 May 2024

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Broadridge to offer JPM Coin as settlement mechanism for DLR platform

JP Morgan has struck a deal to offer its JPM Coin digital token as a settlement mechanism for Broadridge's DLR (Distributed Ledger Repo) platform.

14 May 2024

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JP Morgan taps Visa Direct for faster payments

JP Morgan is promising faster domestic payments in the US, through the Visa Direct network.

07 May 2024

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NextGen Nordics 2024: The current state of play of cross-border payments

Moderating the second panel of the day, Niamh Curran, senior reporter at Finextra, discussed real-time cross border payments with Patrik Havander, head of B2B Connect Europe at Visa, Christian Schwarz, director payments Europe at Finastra, Dr Hubertus von Poser, member of the management board at PPI, Colin Williams, global lead for clearing transformation at J.P. Morgan, and Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Svenska Handelsbanken.

23 April 2024

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Cyber attacks cost financial firms $12bn says IMF

Financial services firms have been hit with $12bn in losses over the last two decades as a result of cyber attacks, according to a recently published report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

10 April 2024

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JP Morgan joins French payments network Cartes Bancaires

JP Morgan is joining Cartes Bancaires (CB), enabling its merchant clients to process card payments via the French network rather than Visa or Mastercard.

06 March 2024