Rebrand takes analytics firm OmniSci to promised land
Will double workforce by end of the year and move into new San Francisco headquarters.
Financial Services/Finserv
Case study: Citizens Access – access all areas
A banking start-up with the rules of having no paper and no fees.
Ping An pushes into Indonesia’s fintech space
Its subsidiary OneConnect plans to offer AI, blockchain and biometrics.
US analytics platform Stratifyd gets $4m funding kick from Arsenal
Follows on from a $25 million Series B announced last fall/autumn.
Kenya keen on regulatory fintech sandbox
Capital Markets Authority outlines its plans for innovation.
Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners closes $220m tech fund
JVP shows interest in cybersecurity, fintech and insurtech.
Getting your executives on the journey they didn’t realise they had started when they hired you
Find what your executives care about and centre your design around them so they can go off and do their job.
Intel outfit ThousandEyes looking at $50m funding
Series D round includes GV, formerly called Google Ventures.
White paper: Third-party cyber risk
Your weakest link.
SmartStream teams with Numerix for ISDA collateral management
Automated data management and risk sensitivities to the rescue.
Financial services leading on “Voice First” technology strategy, but there is work to be done
Richard Stevenson, CEO, Red Box, looks at how voice is a critical data set for digital transformation.
Spirited Seoul plans $1bn spend on fintech start-ups
Seoul Innovation Growth Fund seeks to boost sector.
Data manager Spinr spins into view for fintech SMEs
UK firm offers cloud-based data and API integration platform.
FCA appoints new chair for Financial Services Consumer Panel
Wanda Goldwag will start role from 1 March 2019.
Live Webinar: Account Takeover Fraud – How To Protect Your Business
Join Fintech Futures and OneSpan for a live webinar on Tuesday, 19 March!
Case study: Citizens Bank – fintech friendly
The 13th largest bank in the US pivots for digital era.
EBRD and Estonia unveil regulatory sandbox
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Baltic nation team up.
Finastra’s Fusion Essence core system savours Saudi success
Saudi Arabia’s Agricultural Development Fund looking for better lendtech.
Interview: Aidan Millar, chief data officer, DNB – data driving
How Norway’s banking group DNB is seeking to use data to reconnect with customers.
Can cultures really change? Can trust ever be reestablished?
“Don’t run when you lose, don’t whine when it hurts. It’s like first grade. No one likes a cry baby.”
Fintech charms US state regulator into modelling
Conference of State Bank Supervisors will implement changes based on feedback.
UK trade finance challenger Diaspora preps for flight
Will offer a trade finance ecosystem on blockchain.
Interview: Pavel Novak, Zonky – a fintech fable
Zonky’s helpful community in the Czech Republic and which country the P2P lending firm might target next.
JP Morgan Chase to trial new cryptocurrency
Will start trials in a few months for its JPM Coin.
Fintech investment in US hits record $52.5bn
KPMG’s “2018 Pulse of Fintech” report is good news for the States.
FinovateEurope 2019: Best of Show winners revealed
Let those that win bask in the fintech glory… and this brief news report.
To go boldly forth or why you should go hug your innovation team
Imagine how much an innovation team would achieve if they also had your help.
Mastercard taken by Token’s charms for open banking hub
Californian company will power the paytech’s connectivity layer.
MUFG and Akamai unleash blockchain-based payment network
New joint venture called the Global Open Network.
AI-powered banking experiences
Machine learning can help banks restore the personalised service they were once noted for.
UK fintech investment reaches record $3.3bn
Industry body Innovate Finance serves up the stats.
Swiss corporate challenger bank Initium enters fintech arena
Plans to build a multi-jurisdictional corporate banking group.
Interview: Scott Cooper, CybiWealth – investing big for small pockets
Clever investment management, frustrations, and taking care of choices.
Supplement: FinovateEurope 2019
Read our free FinovateEurope Supplement, packed with fintech goodness!
Open banking: growing in customer trust in 2019
By 2022, the open banking market could be generating £7.2 billion in value.
Colombia’s fintech wakes up to open banking
New alliance between Colombia Fintech and Open Vector is a start.
Scotiabank taps Mexican talent for fintech accelerator
Canadian bank teams with Monterrey university for Mexico City action.
Morocco’s CFG Bank in digital banking revamp with Kony DBX
CFG’s strategy is built on “simplicity, transparency and sustainable customer relationships”.
Analysis: openfunds − raise the standard
It’s surprising how haphazardly much of the data in investment funds is distributed.
Announcing Genome beta launch at White Nights Berlin 2019
Genome opens for public beta in Berlin on 12 February 2019 introducing a unified finance ecosystem like no other.
