Demystify Podcast: Next-generation financial services with Charlie Platt of SAP Fioneer
In this podcast episode, Dharmesh and Dave talk with Charlie Platt, Managing Director of Banking at SAP Fioneer.
Banking
Egypt’s Alexbank partners Mastercard to advance payments strategy
The partnership will focus on expanding Alexbank’s acquiring business and credit card base.
Crabs and KPIs
The majority of organisations fail because they allow folks to see what other teams do as ‘not my problem’.
UK challenger OneBanx appoints Javed Anjum as new CEO
Anjum’s joins directly from the Glory Group, where he served as innovation programme director.
Banking Technology Magazine March 2024 issue out now
Cover story: CREATIVE THINKING – How a borefest could lead to the best ideas.
GFT Technologies names Ian Oswald as new executive director
Oswald joins GFT from EY, where he was a partner in the company’s technology consulting team.
Barclays welcomes back Steve Weston as head of everyday money management
Weston left the UK bank in December 2015 to found the now-defunct Aussie challenger Volt Bank.
What the FinTech? | S.5 Episode 3 | Quantum computing in financial services
In this episode of the podcast, we’re joined by Dr Philip Intallura, Head of Quantum Technologies at HSBC.
Lloyds Bank backs new £62m community development fund
The Community Investment Enterprise Fund aims to support around 800 small businesses in the UK.
Banking veteran Marc Page hired by Metro Bank as CFO
Page will take the reins from interim CFO Cristina Alba Ochoa.
Treasury Prime trims workforce amid strategic pivot to focus on direct-to-bank partnerships
The pivot comes a year after the firm completed a $40 million Series C fundraising round.
OTP Bank partners Iliad Solutions for payments testing platform
The Budapest-based bank is to leverage its new partner’s payments testing and certification platform, t3.
Cartoon: Incumbency advantage
A new cartoon illustrating the dominate position of incumbents in the financial services industry.
FinTech Futures: Top five news stories of the week – 1 March 2024
Our pick of the top fintech news stories this week includes Webull, Citi, Blackstone, Enfuce and more.
ClearBank promotes risk and compliance chief Emma Hagan to UK CEO
Hagan has been tasked with leading the platform’s UK operations and market expansion efforts.
The history of banking technology vs the history of banking experience
Over time, the transactional aspects of banking have been solved, but not the emotional ones.
Green Dot receives proposed consent order from US Federal Reserve
Green Dot says the consent order relates “principally to various aspects of compliance risk management”.
FinovateEurope 2024: Digital transformation, shifting customer expectations and Africa’s fintech growth
Influential figures from across the financial industry assembled in London for the final day of FinovateEurope.
State of play: banking
Banks are facing a myriad of challenges, from transformative technological shifts to increasing competition.
Citi names former JP Morgan exec Viswas Raghavan as new head of banking
Raghavan is due to take charge of the group’s investment, corporate and commercial banking unit.
Cross River Bank Group launches new investment banking unit
The group’s new investment banking unit will be co-led by Benjamin Samuels and Henry Pinnell.
Wishful thinking
The job is still about new technology, but it’s not about the ‘if’. It’s about the ‘how’.
Blackstone buys $1.1bn of US credit card debt from Barclays
Barclays says it will use the proceeds of the sale to fund an extension of its US lending activities.
FinovateEurope 2024: Tech demos, AI and tokenisation dominate day one
Industry innovators and thought leaders gathered in London on Tuesday for the opening day of FinovateEurope.
BNY Mellon names Gary Delaney as new international CISO
Delaney will report to Matthew McCormack, who leads the bank’s Information Security Division.
Lithuania’s Šiaulių Bankas taps Temenos for core banking upgrade
Šiaulių Bankas aims to leverage Temenos’ tech to double its number of clients to one million by 2029.
(Fin)tech for good?
The ‘tech for good’ movement has the potential to effect real and positive global technological change.
Money20/20 Asia unveils stellar lineup: over 120 speakers and industry experts confirmed
Money20/20 Asia 2024 will be held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand.
UK challenger GB Bank appoints Mark Sismey-Durrant as new chair
Sismey-Durrant replaces Mike Kirsopp, who has left the company to return to an executive career.
Quaint Oak Bank taps Finzly to modernise payments infrastructure
Quaint Oak aims to realise its modernisation ambitions by leveraging Finzly’s Payment Galaxy platform.
Viva Republica’s Toss Bank announces Rhee Eun-mi as first female CEO
Rhee Eun-mi joins from DGB Daegu Bank, where she has been serving as CFO and managing director.
Diamond Trust Bank Uganda partners TerraPay to enhance cross-border transfer processes
TerraPay says the union will enable the bank to “facilitate direct account deposits from any part of the world”.
Vencora acquires Crealogix to bolster banking tech portfolio
Vencora now owns 99.07% of Crealogix’s issued share capital and voting rights.
Returning to the fundamentals: BaaS as mission-critical financial infrastructure
BaaS has become a critical element in the digital transformation of global financial services.
CAB Payments CEO to step down, former Vanquis Banking Group CFO Neeraj Kapur set to take over
Bhairav Trivedi is stepping down as CEO of CAB Payments after three years in the role.
Vietnam International Bank taps AWS and Temenos for cloud core banking upgrade
VIB will be the first Vietnamese bank to deploy the Temenos R23 core banking system on a cloud platform.
South Korea’s FSC announces two new initiatives to expand open banking
The two new initiatives will bring changes to how open banking data is used in the country.
Bank Danamon partners Helicap to bring growth capital to Indonesia’s financially underserved
The duo are hoping to create a “one-stop solution” for non-dilutive growth capital.
Danske Bank appoints two new execs to lead technology and data strategy
Swift’s Richard Davis joins as CTO, while Christoffer Kanstrup has been promoted to chief data officer.
Security Bank selects Avaloq to digitise wealth management business
The bank will leverage the Avaloq Core platform and its Relationship Manager Workplace solution.
