Wirecard strikes again with Klarna payments partnership
Also this week, Wirecard teamed with Southeast Asian ride-sharing firm Grab.
Digital
Standard Chartered launches Banking as a Service solution in Indonesia
The white-label service was incubated at SC Ventures.
Inclusion, innovation, and mobile money in Sub-Saharan Africa
“If our systems fail, a big part of the economy would fail,” says exec.
Step aside China, it’s Southeast Asia’s turn in the spotlight
The region is full of promise and possibility for investors and entrepreneurs alike.
Budget 2020: What’s the fintech impact?
FinTech Futures picks out the fintech tidbits in this week’s announcement.
Rizq launches in UK as Sharia-compliant challenger bank
Rizq plans to benchmark itself as close as possible to existing challengers.
Alipay plans digitisation for 40 million Chinese service providers
The move marks a shift in the business from financial to digital services.
Visa teams up with Nigeria’s Paga
Lagos-based Paga holds more than 14 million customers across Nigeria.
Metro Bank partners with ezbob to launch SME lending platform
The bank claims businesses will receive loans in minutes.
Report on cloud transformation in banking: The 2020 state of play
Investigating how a new year and a new decade have impacted the drive towards a cloud-based future for banking.
Lloyds signs customer experience deal with Google Cloud
UK bank to deploy Google cloud services to “improve customer experience.”
Revolut seeking UK banking licence before year end
The neobank currently only has one banking licence in Lithuania.
San Fran money manager Empower Finance lands $20m Series A
“There’s growing demand in the market for financial knowledge to be more practical,” says CEO.
Aussie neobank Hay chooses Mambu’s cloud banking platform
Mambu landed two other Asia-Pacific deals this month.
Standard Chartered unveils new Hong Kong challenger bank Mox
The bank’s card will be numberless to prevent fraud.
Community Bank Bangladesh goes live on Infosys Finacle in 48 days
New bank plans to rapidly scale with Infosys system.
FirstBank picks Finxact to replace 35 year-old core banking system
Colorado-based bank is among early takers of Finxact’s core banking system.
First Digital Trust bags $3m investment led by Nogle
FDT and Nogle’s goal is to bring legacy financial services to the digital asset industry.
Family finance app Jassby raises $5m, anticipates $20m round later this year
CEO says rounds will drive fintech closer towards 1 million users within a year.
Tandem lands funding, tipped to buy “green” lender
The bank is set to announce “the acquisition of an established ‘green’ lending business”.
Challenger bank Copper latest to tap America’s teens
Copper is yet to reveal its launch date but has opened a waiting list to teens.
Leap Finance raises $5.5m to help finance Indian students abroad
Start-up wants to change the way students are given credit.
PFM app Bean shuts down 15 months after BGL Group acquisition
Bean no longer accepting new sign-ups and set to close later this month.
Banking Technology March 2020 issue out now
Keep calm and carry on: Where does COVID-19 leave the Chinese fintech market?
Explained: Cryptojacking
IT professionals constantly need to look for tell-tale signs in their networks.
Can fintech eliminate credit discrimination?
Even the strictest laws can’t eliminate the inherent impression the credit manager forms.
HPS to provide QR-based payments system in Saudi Arabia
Payments firm tapped up by Saudi Arabia’s Monetary Authority.
Banks test disaster recovery sites and send staff home amid coronavirus
Senior bank execs are concerned about broadband capacity at their employees’ homes.
Vantage Bank Texas signs up Backbase to revamp digital banking
Texan back seeks consolidation under one system following 2018 merger.
Money management app Emma bags $2.5m in seed funding
The fintech connects users’ bank accounts under a single dashboard.
Flywire’s CEO on unicorn status: “It means nothing until it is something”
“I’m the most anti-unicorn terminology person, so it’s quite ironic,” says Massaro.
Starling Bank amps up advertising efforts with Team GB win
The bank is offering every British athlete an account with £100 in credit.
Mambu to power Australian credit firm Nimble
Nimble is switching up on its tech to power digital bank aims.
Is the future of banking not open but closed?
Europe and USA have to create their own ecosystems to compete with the East.
White paper: Temenos recognised as a leader in the Forrester Wave™ for digital banking engagement platforms
Convincingly broad off-the-shelf capabilities for supporting channel-specific retail, business and corporate banking.
Standard Bank shifts SAP core system to Microsoft Azure cloud
South African bank’s “Project Embrace” kicks off with a core switch.
Dzing challenger bank launches beta in UK
It has been in the works since October 2018.
The global unbanked shoppers
The gap between the population of the banked and unbanked is continuing to broaden.
India’s lending start-up SMEcorner bags $30m Series B
The round was led by a $10.5 million investment from Germany’s Paragon Partners.
Starling Bank looks to Irish banking licence for European expansion
The challenger bank has been aiming for an Irish licence since last year.
