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The Importance Of Choice In Payments − Speech By Victoria Cleland, Bank Of England, Executive Director, Payments, Given At Banknote Conference, Washington DC

Date 14/05/2026

Victoria Cleland sets out why preserving choice in payments is important, highlighting its role in supporting financial inclusion, strengthening system resilience, and promoting competition. She outlines how a diverse payment landscape fuels innovation and helps to ensure people and businesses can pay in ways that work for them, and highlights the key role that cash continues to play.

Federal Reserve Board Releases Results From Two Surveys Of Senior Financial Officers At Banks About Their Views On Discount Window Operating Days And Their Strategies And Practices For Managing Reserve Balances

Date 14/05/2026

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday released results from two surveys of senior financial officers at banks about their views on discount window operating days and their strategies and practices for managing reserve balances. The Senior Financial Officer Survey is used by the Board to obtain information about banks' reserve balance management strategies and practices, their expectations around the size of their balance sheets and deposit balances their activity in money markets, and their views regarding the discount window.

Operational Resilience In A Rapidly Changing World − Speech By Liz Oakes, Bank Of England Financial Policy Committee - Given At The KPMG And Fitch Ratings London Banking Summit

Date 14/05/2026

Liz Oakes sets out the growing importance of operational and cyber resilience in the context of advancing technology. She underlines the expectations on firms to develop effective risk management frameworks as the first line of defence. Liz also highlights the work of regulators and policymakers to ensure resilience against these evolving risks

Bank Of England: Slides From Huw Pill’s Fireside Chat At NatWest

Date 14/05/2026

Huw Pill discussed his economic and monetary policy views in a fireside conversation with Natwest on 14 May 2026. As part of this, he presented the below slides.

FTSE Russell And Planetrics Announce Proposed Partnership To Develop Climate-Scenario Indices

Date 14/05/2026

FTSE Russell, LSEG’s global index provider, and Planetrics, SLR’s platform specialising in climate-risk analytics, modelling, and scenario-based analysis, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) focussed on the joint development of climate-scenario based indices and analytics. 

CME Group To Launch Nasdaq CME Crypto Index Futures

Date 14/05/2026

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced plans to launch Nasdaq CME Crypto Index futures on June 8, pending regulatory review.

Corporate And Municipal CUSIP Request Volumes Rise For Second Consecutive Month In April

Date 14/05/2026

CUSIP Global Services (CGS) today announced the release of its CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for April 2026. The report, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of debt and capital markets activity over the next quarter, found a monthly increase in request volume for new corporate and municipal identifiers.

Fiserv Leadership To Focus On Strategy, Execution Priorities And Financial Outlook At Its 2026 Investor Day - Company Re-Affirms 2026 Guidance And Provides Expectations For Medium-Term Outlook For 2027 To 2029

Date 14/05/2026

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, will host its Investor Day today beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. The event will feature presentations from Fiserv senior leadership and will focus on the company’s strategy and execution priorities, as well as outline its medium-term financial outlook.

Fiserv Forms Strategic Collaboration With OpenAI To Bring AI To How Fiserv Serves Financial Institutions

Date 14/05/2026

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global leader in payments and financial technology solutions, today announced a new effort with OpenAI aimed at modernizing how financial institutions operate in the new age of AI.

Fiserv Launches agentOS: The Operating System For Agentic AI In Banking

Date 14/05/2026

• Designed to help financial institutions safely deploy and scale AI agents 
• agentOS marketplace to feature four inaugural Fiserv agents 
• and nine inaugural third-party agent partners
• OpenAI and Amazon Web Services join as key collaborators