US banking app CapWay readies to launch
Targeting millennials who are either underbanked or uncertain.
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Germany’s largest private and commercial bank launches
Merger of Postbank and Deutsche Bank’s private and commercial clients business has concluded.
Big bank’s mobile app Beem IT goes live in Oz
Australian app created by CBA, NAB and Westpac.
Tandem reaches 100,000 clients, signs for Form3 paytech
Wants to match Lloyds Bank in terms of customer numbers in ten years time.
Silicon Valley Bank comes to Germany
The new branch will be based in Frankfurt.
ICICI Bank unveils innovation labs
Indian bank follows the digital trend.
Temenos Community Forum 2018: digital to the core
A round-up of TCF 2018 – all the best bits (and pictures).
Women in fintech: every business leader needs to embody the values around equality
Why women in tech shouldn’t fall into the trap that your learning journey is ever over.
Infographic: the generation game
Sainsbury’s Bank examines the financial habits of different generations.
ING launches developer portal
Dutch bank wants to work more closely with external developers.
Top fintech stories this week – 25 May 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
ABN Amro hit by DDoS attack
Dutch bank’s services either not available or very slow.
Clever UK mobile banking app Bofin preps for launch
A chartered engineer unleashes his new fintech creation.
Mitek acquires AI firm A2iA for $49.7m
US-based digital identity verification company bolsters its capabilities.
Crédit Mutuel turns to IBM for major digital revamp
All in for IBM’s AI, cloud and cybersecurity.
Tinkoff Bank to launch new development hub in Sochi
Russian bank working with the Talent and Success Foundation.
Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka live with Fiserv’s core banking tech
Implements Signature system and front-end Teller solution.
Julius Baer live with Temenos wealthtech
Private banking group has completed its migration.
Deutsche Bank to cut 7,000 jobs
One in four jobs in its equities sales and trading business to go.
Commerzbank makes first major FX pilot transaction via blockchain
First deal involving a large German corporate.
Bank of England’s digital currency pushes ahead
The central bank digital currency (CBDC) begins to take shape.
Addiko Bank puts digital banking solutions on Appian
Austrian bank finds the way to low code developer’s platform.
Finca picks Autosoft’s core banking system for Pakistan
Autosoft’s Autobanker beats Oracle’s Flexcube and Temenos’ T24 to the deal.
KBC in instant payments project with Temenos
Fresh from Temenos Community Forum 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.
CFTE and Finance Innovation go upskill in France
Education with élan.
OCBC goes all Touché feely for biometric-based payments
All at the touch of two fingers.
Ant Financial lights up China Everbright Bank’s digital revamp
Overhaul includes cloud platforms and mobile architecture.
Four Finastra’s a jolly good fintech fellow
And so say all of US. (Well, four firms do.)
Dead fintechs don’t wear Plaid
Shy US app provider expands to Canada.
Regtech warrior BearingPoint storms Citadele Bank Lithuania
Walls come tumbling down as BearingPoint makes its Lithuanian debut.
Maybank makes a Grab for cashless payments in Malaysia
Bank and ride-hailing service team up.
India’s P2P lender Faircent first for RBI’s NBFC-P2P certification
Acronyms unleashed as firm gets non-banking financial company licence.
Transactive Systems gets FCA e-money licence
Its sponsor for the Faster Payment Service is ClearBank.
Tokyo fintech business camp calls for start-ups
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government wants you.
Tradeshift Pay to take the pain from supply chain
Cloud platform will bring together supply chain finance and blockchain-based payments.
Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines for conversational AI starter
Ambitions to make chatbots sound more human and less like robots.
Barclays escapes fraud charges over Qatar capital raising
But UK’s Serious Fraud Office is “likely to seek to re-instate these charges”.
Image is everything with ABN Amro’s new webcam advisory service
Dutch bank unveils Beeldbankieren.
Mastercard Accelerate-s search for fintech mates
New Accelerate initiative to offer tools, tech and investment.
Castlight Financial brightens HSBC UK’s first open banking loan
Bank uses Categorisation-as-a-Service to process live loan.
