Video: Top fintech stories this week – 13 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Fintech investors are looking outside of the US for greater returns.
The Spanish technology company sees a bright future in Flink.
Neobank seeks to reach underbanked with smartphones.
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The exec team come from Snapchat, Google and KPMG.
It comes just weeks after it exited Cameroon and Tanzania.
The paytech says its card-to-card service is now used by more than 1.2 million customers.
The financing subsidiary says it can save consumers up to £270.
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The company is gearing up to make two acquisitions.
The card will be UK’s first multi-brand digital gift card.
The ATMs will use contactless technology and QR codes.
The funding round was led by seed and growth investor Global Founders Capital.
The firm will use this new capital to increase its scale.
There is strict criteria to join the private banking community.
The banks failed to message users going into their overdrafts.
The UK start-up still insists it will reach 4 million customers by 2020.
Fibank customers will be able to move all accounts to My Fibank app.
Customers took to social media to vent their frustrations.
Bloomberg says Ualá is close to a $1 billion valuation.
The UK challenger’s 800,000 customers will gain access to their other accounts in-app.
The CEO says other banking technology providers are “not really open”.
The acquisition is PayPal’s largest to date.
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Neon currently has 2 million active users.
The neobank remains in stealth mode for the time being.
It can now receive financial data from banks as a registered third party.
The Nigerian start-up will use the fresh cash to expand in the region.
Georges Mansourati spent eleven years at Swedbank.
The Polish bank chose OneSpan after surveying its customers.
The conference brought together chief information security officers (CISOs).
This is in addition to its $4.5 million raised this summer.
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HSBC Kinetic is in beta testing, RBS’ neobank Bó is to launch this month.
Snapdocs claims to power 10% of US mortgage transactions.
Sources say Visa paid $200 million for a 20% stake.
The national bank has drawn up its own fintech guidelines “to speed things up”.
SoftBank bought a 14.9% stake in Banco Inter earlier this year.