IBM and Cargills Bank bring cognitive security thrills to Sri Lanka
Using IBM QRadar, a security intelligence platform, along with QRadar Advisor with Watson.
Innovation
Working together: how partnerships are paving the way for insurtech
A chat with Jennyfer Yeung-Williams, head of UK and European partner engagement at MunichRe Digital Partners.
Top six trends in payments
What trends will be impacting the payments industry this year?
Cisco’s ex-boss launches VC firm
He also praises eating insects.
Fintech funding round-up: 18 January 2018
Featuring BB&T Corporation, Solgari and Tinkoff Bank.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 18 January 2018
Features Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Jibrel Network, Yes Bank and HashCash.
NAB asks Alexa for hands-free banking
Users can now perform tasks such as requesting their account balance or getting details on their latest deposits.
Close to you – how white-label partnerships will continue to evolve
They have deepened and broadened, now covering more services than have been traditionally associated with the term.
How to keep traditional underwriting ahead of the curve
Elena Rasa, chief underwriting officer at Zurich, speaks to us at InsurTech Rising 2017.
Bricks and clicks mix with Metro Bank online current account launch
Join from your own home, office, coffee shops, sheds and hot tubs.
Pay-per-day with Revolut’s new travel insurance way
Product uses a customer’s geolocation to provide medical and dental cover.
Atos aims for fintech affinity with new trinity
Unleashes three new initiatives to tap into fintechs, insurtechs and regtechs.
Four regtech trends of 2017
Cast your mind back to 2017. Did the trends predicted shake the industry as much as we thought?
InsurTech Rising Live: Digital Week
Featuring industry leaders discussing the issues impacting insurtechs today.
Standard Chartered creates fintech investment unit
New adventures beckon as SC Ventures plans to invest in fintechs and other start-ups.
Microsoft and Alibaba officially have AI that’s smarter than humans
They beat humans using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset – aka SQuAD.
Fiorano fuels digital overhaul at Bank of Kigali
Rwanda’s largest commercial bank in major revamp.
Widiba homes in on Artificial Solutions for VR banking launch
Enter a virtual branch to carry out transactions or talk to an advisor.
Banking tech round-up: 16 January 2018
Featuring Finastra, Cyberport, ME Bank, FIS, FinReach, Deutsche Postbank and Saxo Bank.
Nationwide wide of the mark for UK open banking launch
Joins five banks in missing the deadline.
Is the insurance industry ready for autonomous cars?
Driverless cars; opportunity for the insurance sector or a challenge that could lead to its downfall?
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 16 January 2018
Post-trade scenarios, a cryptocurrency app and a trading platform. Stars Swift, DeVere Group and Horizon Software.
Central Bank of Bahrain’s fintech sandbox heats up
Welcomes three new faces – investment service Wahed, BitArabia and online Bitcoin exchange Belfrics.
By George! Erste Group’s banking platform launches in Slovakia
Developed by the Austria-based bank’s in-house fintech.
Hypothekarbank Lenzburg unveils virtual ATMs
Swiss bank’s customers can withdraw cash from virtual ATMs with their smartphone.
Christiania Securities motors over to Bricknode Broker
Norway-based firm has moved from its Tieto back office system.
Fintech Lab launches insurtech accelerator in Moscow
Nine start-ups primed for action.
Root Banking rooting for Starbucks-level channel integration
San Francisco-based start-up from industry veteran Matt Krogstad is launched.
Interview: Sidd Gandhi, KyePot – dreams and savings schemes
Co-founder and CEO shares his plans for India’s chit fund (savings scheme) industry.
Visa pilots new biometric payment card
With Mountain America Credit Union and Bank of Cyprus for a new EMV dual-interface card.
Turkey: the next cashless society
Turkey is perfectly placed to become the world’s next cashless society – a true digital payment powerhouse.
FIS fintech accelerator seeks start-ups
Ten places up for grabs in the US.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 12 January 2018
All about Asia this time. Featuring Cobinhood, JCB, Currency Port and Republic Protocol
EU outlines €1bn supercomputer plan
A step forward in ambitions to be competitive and independent in the global data economy.
Lithuania’s central bank to launch blockchain sandbox
LBChain platform “could be ready to launch” in 2019.
Accounting platform Aplos shows faith with Gusto
For Aplos’s nonprofit and faith-based organisation client base.
Fintech funding round-up: 12 January 2018
Features Ladder, Petal, Fisco, Equitise and Xinja.
Is the UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport the real life DOSAC?
It’s like the UK government is taking advice from the writers of “The Thick of It”.
Alfa-Bank and HashCash unleash blockchain-powered payments
Russia’s largest commercial bank is making waves.
Top fintech stories this week – 12 January 2018
Catch up on FinTech Future’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
