Video: Matera at Fintech Meetup 2024 – Core banking modernisation and instant payments
Matera’s Brad Goad discusses how banks need to modernise their core tech to keep up with instant payment innovations.
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FinTech Futures: Top five news stories of the week – 5 April 2024
Our pick of the top fintech news stories this week includes Nuvei, Westpac, iCapital and more.
Is your head in the cloud when it comes to core banking?
Being cloud native and supporting multi-tenancy are key considerations when looking at a new core banking solution.
TD Bank inks multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud
TD hopes the partnership will help streamline the development and deployment of new products and services.
BIS unveils Project Agorá to explore the tokenisation of cross-border payments
Project Agorá will see seven central banks work in partnership with several private sector participants.
UK’s FCA and Bank of England launch consultation for Digital Securities Sandbox
Responses to the consultation are being accepted until 29 May, ahead of applications for the DSS opening this summer.
State of play: core banking
Investment in core banking technology will continue to be the utmost priority for the industry.
Can’t touch this
Touchpoints with customers are not a good thing. Stop counting them. Stop wanting them.
First Abu Dhabi Bank partners Microsoft to develop new AI-powered banking capabilities
Banking-as-a-Service and Risk-as-a-Service have been cited as two “potential areas of collaboration”.
Banking Technology Magazine April 2024 issue out now
Core story: GOLD GETTERS – The Olympics and fintech make the perfect team.
What the FinTech? | S.5 Episode 5 | Blockchain, CBDCs and programmable payments
In this episode of the podcast, we’re joined by Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant.
FinTech Founders Video: guiding growth with coaching, mentoring and sponsoring initiatives
Three industry experts highlight the importance of coaching, mentoring and sponsoring initiatives in fintech.
Westpac set to invest billions of dollars to fuel bank-wide tech overhaul
Westpac’s current stack “isn’t older or less capable than peers… we just have too much of it”, according to its CEO.
Human connection in the age of AI
Even in the age of an AI arms race, we can still reclaim what is uniquely human: our empathy.
Is a phone charging cable the new bank card?
Have smartphones completely replaced the need for physical bank cards?
If Mary has three apples…
Always measure opportunity cost. What are you not doing while you are doing what you are doing?
Denmark’s Danske Bank enters multi-year cloud partnership with AWS
Danske Bank will migrate selected legacy applications, data, and infrastructure to the AWS cloud.
How hackathons can help redefine your ESG communications and product strategy
Hackathons focused on ESG challenges are a fun way for fintechs to use their tech prowess for the greater good.
Mobile banking app for kids and teens, Cashee, to launch in Saudi Arabia
Cashee will provide a free banking app and a prepaid Visa card, issued by Arab National Bank (ANB).
BNY Mellon deploys AI supercomputer from Nvidia
BNY Mellon has deployed Nvidia’s supercomputer, DGX SuperPOD with DGX H100 systems.
Video: FinovateEurope 2024 – What’s hot and what’s not in fintech
We ask three industry professionals what’s hot and what’s not in the fintech sector this year.
Cloud banking: 60 years on
Cloud is all the rage again, and the advantages for banks of being truly cloud native are huge.
What the FinTech? | S.5 Episode 4 | The future of digital identity
In this episode of the podcast, we’re joined by Pinar Alpay, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Signicat.
Finalists announced for Banking Tech Awards USA 2024
Winners of this year’s awards will be announced at a gala dinner ceremony in New York on 30 May.
Australian Payments Plus taps Swift to develop confirmation of payee service
The firms plan for the new security measure to be ready by the beginning of 2025.
Payment security and fraud prevention take centre stage at this year’s Pay360 conference
Concepts concerning the safety and efficiency of payments proved central to the conference’s agenda.
African fintech Union54 launches new social commerce platform ChitChat
ChitChat enables users to make immediate USD payment transfers directly within chat conversations.
Video: Decoding the digital euro
Ville Sointu of Nordea discusses how a potential digital euro could impact the financial services sector.
IndusInd Bank partners Tappy Technologies and Thales to launch tokenisation solution for wearable payments
The Indus PayWear app will enable the bank’s customers to tokenise their cards for use with wearables.
The procurement saints
Procurement buddies, those workday saints, have always been what separates a good day from a terrible one.
Video: ABN Amro at FinovateEurope 2024 – Keeping up with technological change
Edwin van Bommel of ABN Amro discusses the key areas banks should be targeting with their transformation projects.
Video: FinovateEurope 2024 – The top trends to watch in fintech
Three industry professionals discuss which fintech trends the industry should be keeping an eye on.
FinTech Founders Video: tools for personal and professional development
In this episode of the FinTech Founders series, we discover how founders can grow with their companies.
Video: ING at FinovateEurope 2024 – Digital transformation trends
Marco Eijsackers of ING discusses the key digital transformation trends across financial services.
Video: Lloyds Banking Group at FinovateEurope 2024 – Fintech funding trends
At FinovateEurope, Robin Scher of Lloyds Banking Group discusses the big fintech funding trends in 2024.
Stax Payments founders launch business credit decisioning platform Worth AI
Sal Rehmetullah and Suneera Madhani will act as co-CEOs of the start-up, which is set to launch this month.
The evolving relationship between supermarkets and banking and the key role of fintechs
Supermarkets across the globe continue to embrace fintech partnerships to power their financial services.
FinTech Futures: Top five news stories of the week – 15 March 2024
Our pick of the top fintech news stories this week includes the US Federal Reserve, Starling Bank and more.
United Fintech reshuffles leadership in push to drive growth
The restructuring will involve members of three of the five acquisitions it has made in the last four years.
Is talking to our money the next user experience paradigm?
We need a way of literally talking to our money to help us build a proper relationship with it.
