Incumbent financial institutions harness the power of the entrepreneurial mindset
Introducing Extrapreneurship, a new programme helping employees of large FIs to adopt the entrepreneurship mindset.
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2gether expands its prepaid crypto card into Europe
Consumers will be able to spend crypto as easily as euros.
Open banking: progressing to the summit
Banks and disruptors alike are still trekking through the foothills of open banking.
Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 18 March 2019
More open banking news, fintechs in LatAm, an a MasterCard acquisition.
Tech giant SAS commits to £1bn AI investment in three years
It aims to develop new AI skills as well as teach customers how to use them.
Indian lendtech Spoon readies for launch
Aiming to offer micro lending through a mobile app, in real time.
Nets to support Sbanken’s open banking across Nordics and Europe
“Banking as we know it will change radically.”
Sweden’s SEB chooses DTCC’s Global Trade Depository to meet SFTR obligations
DTCC has added data transformation services to its SFTR offering.
White paper: Artificial intelligence for executives
Learn how to integrate AI into your organisation with this SAS white paper
AI platform Talent Ticker launches in the UK market
Unifying data across sectors to help firms make decisions more efficiently.
HPS PowerCARD 2019: working together to tackle fraud
Why aren’t the banks collaborating or working together to combat fraud, should the regulator get involved?
Client experience: hallmark of the digital credit and lending journey
What is the Holy Grail of credit and lending transformation?
Former MtGox boss gets suspended jail on account of data falsification
However, he was cleared of all other charges, including embezzlement.
Capital Markets Gateway gets its way with $7.5m funding
Creating a path for capital markets professionals with a round led by StageDotO.
French firm PayTrip launches prepaid for relatives abroad
Inspired by a Moroccan engineer’s personal experience of making money transfers.
First Direct invites customers to co-create new products
The launch of fdesign follows the introduction of peer-to-peer payments system fdpay in January.
Customer service platform Glia gets $20m funding
A Series B funding round led by Insight Venture Partners
TickSmith powers CanDeal’s DataVault Innovations
The company will use the Data Pooling Platform to launch its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering.
StanChart to set up digital SME platform in India
Will offers business loans, invoice/supply chain financing, and commercial insurance.
HSBC backs insurtech CXA Group’s $25m funding
Singapore-based firm looking for expansion across Asia-Pacific region.
UK pressures tech titans to face competition
The nation’s rules must be updated for the digital age.
Open Banking one year on
Information Builders looks at how the initiative opened up new opportunities with data.
UK’s Nationwide analyses customer interactions with SAS
AI will look at how emails are managed at the building society.
White paper: Multi-cloud fundamental to financial services’ transformation
Discover major trends that are impacting financial service businesses
Salt Edge teams up with UK-based PFM app Emma
Integration will enable Emma users to connect their accounts from banks throughout the UK.
US Senate attacks lax Equifax cybersecurity defences
Senate reveals investigation into 2017 data breach that affected 146 million US consumers.
First State Community Bank picks Jack Henry’s lending suite
New tech is provided by Jack Henry’s ProfitStars division.
GreenKey Technologies secures investment from IPC
IPC gets exclusive rights to GreenKey’s machine learning voice solutions.
Top fintech stories this week – 8 March 2019
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InsurTech Rising Live: Digital Week
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Wealthtech Gluskin Sheff turns to Broadridge tech
New investment management tech will help manage portfolios and compliance.
How new AML tech is freezing the fraudsters
Over 90% of UK current accounts are now covered by the new Mule Insights Tactical Solution (MITS).
WorldFirst acquires CurrencyVue to develop trade platform
The acquisition will help its foreign exchange capabilities.
Esme Loans getting data warehouse courtesy of Microsoft
To help with AI processes in the lending process.
Poland’s Alior Bank calls for fintech start-ups
Acceleration programme wants ideas in security, data analysis and finserv.
White paper: Intelligent business software solutions enabling fintech companies to grow
How can you grow your fintech firm with a business software solution?
Open banking – build it and they will come?
It is the innovative data wranglers that will decide the success of open banking.
ID verification firm Socure so cool with $30m funding
The Series C round takes the company’s total funding to $57.5 million.
Disruption through diversity and empowerment
“Be bold. You have earned it. More importantly, if you don’t value yourself, how can you demonstrate it to others?”
RFI Global Business Banking Summit 2019: The age of branch banking is over
The time of digital has come.
