Banking Technology Awards 2017: and the winners are….
The glamorous Banking Technology Awards 2017 took place on 13 December at the elegant Millennium Mayfair hotel in London.
The glamorous Banking Technology Awards 2017 took place on 13 December at the elegant Millennium Mayfair hotel in London.
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Emirates NBD’s new chief digital officer is on the lookout for partnerships with fintechs.
The baddest boy on the security block.
The duo are targeting Africa’s unbanked population.
Includes IT support and operation of its data centre.
Nesta names prize winners at the conclusion of stage one of its Open Up Challenge.
Nordea has connected APIs to its production system and made its open banking live in Finland.
Will also increase hub’s workforce by 70% in 2018.
Opt to use post-trade processing tech to provide automation to market participants who process derivatives.
Nothing quite compares to go compare for bank accounts in the UK.
Berlin-based challenger bank Penta has officially launched its business bank account offering in Germany.
Digital customer acquisition technology firm gets equity funding in a round managed by Moelis Australia.
Have any UK high street or challenger banks made the jump to 100% digital onboarding?
The recent World Economic Forum (WED) report “Sweden could stop using cash by 2023”, says that the country is moving towards favouring cards and mobile payment apps. Yet retailers are expected to accept cash for at least a couple of years afterwards.
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK have found a security flaw that put ten million banking app users at risk.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is now accepting applications from fintech firms to be part of its fourth sandbox phase.
Risk and data science firm Jaywing has unveiled Archetype, a new risk technology product that uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep neural nets to help lenders generate statistical models.
A group of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, are claiming a victory over the massive Andromeda botnet, which infected at least one million PCs each month and spawned a wave of malware families.
In this eIDAS paper, legal expert Lorna Brazell of Osborne Clarke LLP explains electronic signatures under the EU’s new Electronic ID and Trust Services Regulation.
Read the e-book to learn how DocuSign helps credit unions increase speed, decrease errors, lower operating costs, and grow their business.
New financial services challenges – are you ready for Modern Payments Systems, IoT and blockchain?
BPCE, the second largest banking group in France, is seeking revenue growth and expansion with a new €600 million “TEC 2020” digital transformation plan.
Technology start-up Kuzzle, the open-source backend solution for mobile, web and internet of things (IoT), will launch its latest solution for digital banking at FinTech Connect Live in London.
Tungsten Network will work with BNP Paribas to offer e-invoicing linked receivables purchase and e-invoicing linked supply chain finance (e-SCF) to large corporates in the US and Canada.
Itaú Unibanco, Latin America’s largest banking group, has signed for a new core banking solution – Temenos’ T24 – for its international private banking business.
Moneythor, a Singapore-based fintech firm, has deployed its digital banking toolkit and personalisation engine at France’s new mobile bank, Orange.
Closing more loans and realizing revenue more quickly is every lender’s goal. But if you’re operating with costly, time-consuming paper-based processes, that goal will be impossible to achieve. The only viable option is to part ways with paper and partner with a digital solution.
Recent cyberattacks, such as the October 2017 Swift attack, show how vulnerable financial firms across the globe are to the machinations of hackers.
Having finalised its acquisition of WePay, JP Morgan Chase announced that it has already put the payments platform to work: powering commerce platform Volusion, reports Finovate (Banking Technology’s sister company).
Challenger bank Countingup is the latest firm to call on London-based HooYu for its innovative identity confirmation services.
Al-Thiqa Islamic Bank has gone live with new core banking software, ICS Banks, supplied by ICS Financial Systems (ICSFS).
Barclaycard is rebranding itself to Barclays in the US as part of its retail digital banking strategy in 2018.
BS/2, a Lithuanian banking technology company, and VisionLabs, a face recognition software provider, have teamed up to fight financial crime by offering contactless identification for self-service terminals. The duo will offer an integration solution – using BS/2’s ATMeye.iQ, a self-service video surveillance and fraud prevention system, and VisionLabs’ LUNA face recognition platform. The solution uses […]
Who doesn’t love a trilogy? Following on from the round-ups on Thursday (30 November) and Tuesday (28 November) here’s another slice of fintech funding action. Features Deposit Solutions, Hanson Robotics’ Sophia, and BNP Paribas Asset Management. Germany’s Deposit Solutions, an open banking platform for deposits, has closed an investment round of $20 million led by […]
“We have created a more digital, agile and flexible TSB,” stated Paul Pester, CEO of TSB, at the unveiling of the bank’s new technology platform, Proteo4UK.
There is another wave of cuts as the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is closing 259 more branches and axing 680 jobs. This development follows the previous branch closure announcements which resulted in over 500 branches being lost. In June, RBS said 443 jobs are to go from its business loans department. Many of these […]
To date, there hasn’t been a way to understand if online users are being compromised or to be sure precisely what they are seeing whilst visiting and interacting with a web page. We know that endpoint security and anti-viruses fail and online users can be infected even with all the precautions that they may take. Server-side security is now very mature and excellent progress has been made in that particular field.
Triodos Bank in the UK stands out from the crowd for its ethical values but can it now kick on with a leap into the current account market? Banking Technology talks to UK MD, Bevis Watts, about this major development and the technology that underpins it.