US president Joe Biden nominates former Mastercard CEO to lead World Bank
Ajay Banga has been nominated to lead the World Bank following the resignation of David Malpass.
Ajay Banga has been nominated to lead the World Bank following the resignation of David Malpass.
There is more turmoil to come in the core banking space.
According to Sky News, the claim could be worth well over £10 billion.
Arvest claims it is the first US bank to offer lending capabilities on Thought Machine’s core.
The Co-operative Bank is the frontrunner amid a bidding war being run by consultancy Deloitte, Sky News reports.
Sopra Banking Software will design, build and support the bank’s savings and lending products.
Changing habits and everyday ways of working shouldn’t be a CEO initiative. It’s everyone’s job.
Banesco will deploy AML RightSource’s Automated EDD (Enhance Due Diligence) solution.
Additional investors in the Series A round were Deutsche Bank and 1835i Ventures.
Mizuho will use SymphonyAI Sensa to boost AML protection within its European capital markets division.
The integration allows banks to share standardised e-invoices with Saudi tax office Fatoora.
Under the new partnership, SmartSave’s fixed rate accounts will be made available to Flagstone clients.
A closer look at how National Australia Bank’s approach to innovation has evolved in recent years.
PayPal Ventures led the funding round, with new and existing investors also participating.
Longhini joins from Edmond de Rothschild where he was CEO of private banking.
The MAS and RBI will use a scalable cloud-based infrastructure to manage future increases in remittance volumes.
Bunq reported a pre-tax profit of €2.3 million over Q4 2022.
Olga Skorobogatova, first deputy chair of the central bank, announced the news.
Neobanks as a sector are now approaching their teenage years and quickly maturing.
“The way I see it, the fintech landscape has never looked better,” says TM Praveen, CEO of Opus.
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According to Sky News, Tesco is launching a review of its UK banking activities.
A deal could be made in the next few months with the unit valued at around £250m, Sky News reports.
The pilot will test the technical feasibility of a CBDC and leverage the “skills and insights” of private industry.
A new cartoon illustrating how private market valuations have been impacted in the current environment.
A round-up of the latest funding endeavours of fintech start-ups from across North America.
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
The combined business will serve more than 2,200 companies.
FinTech Futures speaks to City University of London’s Raj Muttukrishnan and Crossword’s Stuart Jubb.
Mueller joins from Rabobank North America where he served as AML and sanctions officer for more than six years.
There are a lot of parallels among the big banks in terms of why digital transformation is so complicated.
Take a look at the highlights from Leda Glyptis’ global book launch.
Despite the drop, it was still the third-best year for fintech investment ever.
Zopa’s “BNPL 2.0” offering will allow consumers to spread the cost of purchases worth between £250 and £30,000.
Through the partnership, Citizens will deploy Paymentus Bill Center and Paymentus Loan Payments.
Diners Club Ecuador has gone live on Temenos’ cloud-native banking platform with AWS.
The Indian bank will deploy M2P’s Turing CBS offering.
If you don’t like confrontation, get better at it. So you can at least only have it once and move on.
Finastra is understood to be exploring the sale of its banking portfolio for as much as $7 billion.
Alongside the senior appointments, the firm says it has also expanded its development and product teams.