Crime thriller: Trading Down, by Stephen Norman – part 2
Here’s a second extract from Trading Down, by Stephen Norman, which continues the drama in the Hamilton Datacentre.
Here’s a second extract from Trading Down, by Stephen Norman, which continues the drama in the Hamilton Datacentre.
ING Belgium has opened doors to its first “client house” branch, which the bank describes as “a place where retail, business and private banking customers can walk in and enjoy a good coffee and receive personal service”.
Myanmar-based Yoma Bank has implemented a new treasury and capital management (TCM) system, Fusioncapital Opics, supplied by Finastra (formerly Misys).
Natasha Kyprianides, group head of digital banking and innovation at Hellenic Bank, gives the lowdown on how to apply the partnership strategy in practice and achieve real results.
Brazilian fintech Nubank will soon be offering digital banking accounts in addition to its credit card business. The move will provide access to billpay, account-to-account transfers, and the ability to earn more in interest than is available with a regular savings account.
US-based Regions Bank has gone live with the SEI Wealth Platform, following an 18-month transition of its private wealth, asset management and institutional services businesses to the new platform.
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CULedger, a US-based credit union consortium formed by the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) and the Mountain West Credit Union Association (MWCUA), has selected Swirlds’ hashgraph technology as a key component of its permissioned, distributed, shared ledger platform for credit unions.
Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild (EDR) has gone live with a new core banking platform for its Swiss operations, Avaloq Banking Suite, supplied by Avaloq.
JP Morgan Chase has launched its new mobile banking app, Finn. Designed for millennials, Finn will allow customers to open a bank account, make deposits, track spending and set up a saving plan.
Lipetskcombank (LKB), one of Russia’s largest regional banks, has launched its new LKB Online mobile app, underpinned by the Tranzware Mobile Banking system from paytech specialist Compass Plus.
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Rocky Martinez, CTO and Haytham Kaddoura, CEO at SmartStream talk about the future of banking and how fintechs can help clients grow their business.
ING Ventures, a new investment fund set up by ING, has €300 million to pump into fintech companies.
Paul Taylor of Swift’s Financial Crime Compliance Services Division discusses the evolving compliance landscape and the critical role of technology in helping the industry come together as a whole to combat financial crime.
More of the latest stories from the fintech funding world. Features Verrency, Countingup, Finn.ai and Bud.
Zain Iraq Islamic Bank for Investment and Finance, a start-up retail bank in Iraq, has opted for the iMAL core banking system from Path Solutions.
Cyprus-based Hellenic Bank is modernising its payments platform with paytech specialist Dovetail (now part of Fiserv). The new solution will support Swift, Target2 and SEPA credit transfers at Hellenic Bank.
Christian Westerhaus, Global Head of Clearing Products, Cash Management, Deutsche Bank, talks about the impact of regulations on the correspondent banking business.
International paytech firm First Data has partnered with UnionPay International to enable in-store and online transactions in the US allowing UnionPay card holders to shop at US retailers.
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Westpac New Zealand has completed “a wide-ranging banking technology transformation” with ACI Worldwide, according to the vendor.
Swedish fintech company Tink has signed with Nordic banks Nordea, Klarna and Nordnet. Integrating in 2018, the banks will use Tink’s payment technology and personal finance management (PFM) platform within their existing customer channels.
Bank of Asia, a start-up digital bank in the British Virgin Islands focused on companies that have ties to Asia, has signed for the Avaloq Banking Suite core platform.
Artificial intelligence (AI) fintech start-up Clinc is making its chatbot Finie more widely available through a new partnership with Enacomm.
Behavioural biometrics and threat detection firm BioCatch is working with Samsung SDS America to combat fraud that occurs after a user has logged in.
Argentina-based fintech start-up Ualá has launched a mobile banking service app to champion financial inclusion in the country.
Canada’s ATB Financial says it has launched “the world’s first full-featured virtual banking assistant on Facebook Messenger” to the bank’s nearly 700,000 personal banking customers.
IBM says it has launched an “industry first” solution to support the full lifecycle of peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, from the back office of financial institutions to the mobile device.
DevOps and application lifecycle management (ALM) tech specialist Validata has gained a new customer in Singapore to deliver quality assurance for its Temenos T24 upgrade project.
A Kansas-based banking software developer, Data Centre Inc (DCI), has signed four new clients for its flagship core banking system, iCore360.
SuperCharger, a fintech accelerator in Asia, has unveiled the opening of applications for its third programme in Hong Kong.
Mosaic Smart Data’s real-time data analytics platform, MSX, has been deployed by JP Morgan to optimise the productivity and profitability of its global fixed income sales and trading division.
Morocco-based Al Akhdar Bank, a joint venture of Crédit Agricole and Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), has signed for a new core banking solution, Ethix, supplied by International Turnkey Systems (ITS).
International Islamic Bank (IIB), a greenfield bank in Iraq, has gone live with the ICS Banks core banking system from regional developer ICS Financial Systems (ICSFS).
A sneak preview of a debut novel by Stephen Norman, long serving CIO/CTO of RBS Global Markets and previously Merrill Lynch. A fast-paced crime thriller – published on 9 November 2017.
Diebold Nixdorf’s IMS 2017 conference continued with Czech Republic based, Air Bank, and its chief marketing and product officer Jakub Petřina, with a presentation and a touch of déjà vu.