New Valley Bank & Trust gears up for launch in Massachusetts, selects new lendtech
New Valley Bank & Trust has selected Baker Hill NextGen for its commercial and small business lending operations.
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Charity Bank in core banking tech overhaul with Apak Group
Finastra’s legacy Bankmaster core banking system out, Apak’s Aurius in, at Charity Bank.
Santander and LSE instrumental in Nivaura’s $20m funding
UK firm offers platform for the issuance of financial instruments on blockchain.
Research paper: The rise of the instant bank
The study of more than 2,000 UK banking customers.
Julius Baer enters crypto arena with SEBA stake
Swiss duo plans tech bridge between traditional and digital assets worlds.
Finn AI and IDaaS firm Auth0 offer novel conversational AI
Finn AI looking to help its clients modernise their authentication infrastructures.
ZagTrader and BeQuant show crypto FIX-ation
Duo will offer access to cryptocurrencies using the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) and APIs.
Risk, finance and regulatory reporting: adopting an integrated approach
Banks with the most flexible, integrated FRR architecture will appease the regulators. How to achieve it?
HSBC mixes with NepFin for middle market move in US
American firms via NepFin can now tap into HSBC’s commercial banking services and its network.
Rosbank gauges customer emotion with Neurodata Lab
Every phone call will be analysed – even more.
Bank of Ireland unveils €2bn Brexit fund for SMEs
“Brexit isn’t ‘business as usual’.”
BML Istisharat’s ICBS core system sees success in Lebanon and Morocco
Finance Bank is going live and FNAC has picked the platform.
M&S Bank sparks open banking life into mortgages
Marks & Spencer’s stylish entity teams up with Equifax and AccountScore.
Cyberattack keeps Bank of Valletta off grid
Maltese bank still dealing with cyberattack and theft of €13 million.
Emirates NDB turns to Intellect Design for transaction banking overhaul
Part of the bank’s $410m transformation project.
Planixs receives £3.5m funding for better banking tech plans
The UK-based firm will expand its cloud-based solution Realiti.
HSBC tests retail e-wallet payments in Hong Kong
Beta testing begins with an initial batch of 15 businesses.
PayTech Awards 2019: celebrating people that make things happen
Nominate your colleagues (or yourself) for a Leadership Award by 5 April!
Europe’s army of fintech start-ups
How European fintech start-ups are competing for a market share.
UK’s Southeast Financial Services unveils SmartRemit app for Bangladeshi expats
London-based subsidiary of Bangladesh’s Southeast Bank rolls out beta version.
Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 25 February 2019
Metro, Starling and ClearBank get the RBS grant, South Korea plans fintech push, and more.
South Korea plans interbank payment network
The nation’s Financial Services Commission gives fintech another boost.
Emirates NDB updates to Calypso 15 for treasury ops
Aligned with its four-year transformation strategy.
BlackBerry buys AI cybersecurity firm Cylance for $1.4bn
BlackBerry says it is “now a billion-dollar cybersecurity firm”.
Japan to unleash national digital currency J-Coin Pay
60 financial institutions team up for new smartphone payment service.
Saradar Bank freshens up branch with sweet S17 in Beirut
Lebanese bank wants to combine a café, a co-working space and a digital offering.
French card firm Evolis creates Japanese subsidiary
The company is aiming for a long-term presence in the country.
Discovery’s digital bank to go live next month
South African financial services company satisfied with testing.
Will challenger banks motivate change?
The need for digital transformation has been obvious for years and the window of opportunity is about to close.
OakNorth in the clear with ClearBank payments tech
Those UK challengers are up to something.
Ping An plans $8bn IPO of fintech subsidiary
Insurtech postponed IPO of OneConnect last year due to stock-market unrest.
NatWest unveils bank account aggregator
Its “first real-life customer feature using open banking”.
ID.me brings identity proofing to Department of Veterans Affairs
“No identity is left behind.”
CMB Wing Lung Bank live with new custody banking tech from GBST
CMB Wing Lung Bank is live with a new back-office solution for its custody business, GBST’s Syn~Ops Custody.
Case study: Citizens Access – access all areas
A banking start-up with the rules of having no paper and no fees.
UK finance software firm Yordex gets £500k funding
Investment company Bloc Ventures takes a shine to its new adventures.
Brazil’s BTG Pactual makes digital token move
ReitBZ is a security token offering designed for nation’s real estate market.
Starling Bank promises 400 new UK jobs with £100m grant
UK challenger also pledges to invest £95 million of its own money.
Commerzbank completes securities transaction test on blockchain
Pilot with Continental and Siemens – and transaction based on R3’s Corda platform.
Hackers use fake Google reCAPTCHA to hide banking malware
Phishing campaign at Polish bank serves as a warning for us all.
