Deutsche Bank expands Google cloud partnership
Major German lender expands cloud usage to lending and retail banking.
Digital
Solving payments and card challenges with a platform approach
A platform approach improves efficiency and customer trust.
E-book: Migration to cloud – your guide to delivering an intuitive customer experience
Learn how to transform the entire organisation with the migration to the cloud.
Mortgage automation: solving today’s business challenges with a proven tool
AVM is becoming commonplace within the mortgage process, benefitting lenders and consumers alike.
Revolut launches acquiring service for merchant customers
Revolut undercuts Stripe by 0.1%.
Singapore issues digital bank licences to Grab, Ant & Sea
The regulator has issued four licences, rather than five.
Bank of England selects Appvia for two-year cloud development scheme
Appvia wins selection process started in January 2020.
White paper: Re-wiring financial services operations for a bold future
Looking beyond the front office to transform experiences.
Greek challenger Woli to launch “neobank for families” next year
The fintech is looking to Europe for its launch.
Pockit raises over £500k in its debut crowdfunding
Pockit points to international expansion plans.
Australian lender RedZed is first live on SAP’s Cloud for Banking service
RedZed goes live on SAP package deal, hosted on Amazon Web Services.
Innovations – moonshot thinking and the art of walking the Earth
In wealth management, innovations need challengers, ambitious goals… and patience.
Stripe launches BaaS-type service for merchants with top US banks
“[The] banking experience should be as easy as spinning up a virtual server.”
Monzo lands another £60m from new backers
The latest funding still sees to leave Monzo at its £1.2 billion valuation.
Banking for good
As the new kids on the fintech block start to mature, I do hope they support the broader community.
Northern Ireland boasts highest proportion of fintech workers outside London, says report
Belfast and Londonderry is home to some 74 fintechs which employ around 7,000 people.
FinTech Futures Jobs: the fintech job market is absolutely booming
The global fintech market is predicted to grow at an annual rate of almost 25% – exciting times for jobseekers!
White paper: Analysis of impact and application of advanced analytics in asset management
Unleashing advanced analytics – how asset management firms can take advantage.
Web Summit 2020: A fintech summary
Stripe is looking at products around digital identity.
Libra and Facebook exec joins rental insurtech LeaseLock
The fintech removes the need for renters to pay a deposit for a rental property.
West Bromwich Building Society launches mobile app with Unisys
West Brom to deploy Elevate system underpinning new customer services.
Sber partners with JP Morgan to pilot digital currency in 2021
Russia announced its new cryptocurrency law this year.
AI will explain it to you
Explainable AI removes removes the last barrier in entrusting transaction monitoring to algorithms.
Glitch-riddled TSB goes down again on payday
“[It’s] payday so it means that TSB online banking and app is down again.”
TransferWise nabs Australian banking licence from APRA
The restricted licence gives TransferWise access to the country’s real-time payments system.
Principles for a global central bank digital currency and a single global payment system
The new global payment system should replace all current payment and settlement arrangements.
Stripe chases $100bn valuation with no sign of IPO
Stripe could see its valuation quadruple in just two years.
Solarisbank migrates entire infrastructure to AWS cloud
German BaaS provider claims to be first of its kind to make such a move.
ECB issues Big Tech warning as it promises digital euro
European suppliers are essential in the building of technology on which a digital euro will operate.
How can banks regain consumer trust?
Twelve years later and we’re now in the midst of another global crisis.
Banking Tech Awards 2020 hosted online by Tom Ward
Join comedian Tom Ward for the 2020 Banking Tech Awards. Broadcast online on 10 Dec, 3:30pm GMT and is free to attend.
Report: Digital KYB – a springboard to customer onboarding success
FinTech Futures’ latest in depth industry report on KYB, in partnership with DueDil.
London payments firm SumUp buys digital PoS fintech Goodtill
SumUp and Goodtill have worked together “for many years as partners”.
Facebook’s Libra could launch as early as January 2021
Novi’s digital wallet is “ready from a product perspective”.
Finleap invests in German app aggregating student finance products
German tuition is largely free, making aid for living costs scarce.
How to improve CX without sacrificing security
Finserv is an area where many are turning to customer identity and access management (CIAM).
Forter raises $125m in Series E funding to secure $1.3bn valuation
Fraud prevention firm plans to build on its data network.
Sopra Steria ransomware attack costs group €50m
Sopra reveals details of Ryuk attack from October.
Credit Karma secures $7.1bn Intuit acquisition, sells tax ops to Square
Square enjoyed a 4% jump in stock market value following the announcement.
Embedded banking fintech Weavr lands $4m seed round
Weavr, once known as Open Payments Cloud, spun out of Ixaris in 2019.
