Payments round-up: 23 January 2018
Features DBS Bank, Xero, WeChat Pay and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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Open banking: what you need to know
The landscape for financial services is changing, and the jury is still out on how the endgame is going to play out.
Banking tech round-up: 22 January 2018
Our southern stars are Bank Zero, Westpac and Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
WhatsApp steps into the world of business
To make sure businesses don’t actually have to talk to those pesky customers face-to-face.
Fintech funding round-up: 19 January 2018
Stars Varo Money, OakNorth Bank, NetPay and ISME ACE.
Amazon taps 20 locations as finalists for second HQ
It’s the hottest competition since “The Bachelor”.
Pay-per-day with Revolut’s new travel insurance way
Product uses a customer’s geolocation to provide medical and dental cover.
Fiorano fuels digital overhaul at Bank of Kigali
Rwanda’s largest commercial bank in major revamp.
Curve card comes a-calling in UK
An app that connects debit and credit cards to one Curve Mastercard.
Hypothekarbank Lenzburg unveils virtual ATMs
Swiss bank’s customers can withdraw cash from virtual ATMs with their smartphone.
Wells Fargo to scrap 800 more bank branches by 2020
Due to customers’ preference for online and mobile banking – and desire to cut costs.
Turkey: the next cashless society
Turkey is perfectly placed to become the world’s next cashless society – a true digital payment powerhouse.
IBM planning to reassign 30,000 tech services jobs
“I’ve Been Moved”?
Intelligent Environments appoints new CEO
He most recently served as VP of EMEA at Fiserv. Prior to that, head of retail banking and insurance at Oracle.
How wearables will change everything
The next wave of technological transformation will be driven by the rise of wearable technology.
G+D right tonic for Rabobank mobile payment migration
Moves its SIM-based mobile payment solution to a cloud-based application using HCE tech.
Google Pay gets clever with all payments together
Launches a one brand band.
Fintech funding round-up: 8 January 2018
Features IBM, Comcast, MState, Early Salary, Previse and Dinghy.
Yes Bank and Nearby Tech bring cardless ATM services to India
With the aim to become the payments enabler for India.
Top fintech stories this week – 5 January 2018
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Fintech journalist shares pointless predictions for 2018
The catastrophic catalogue of conjectures.
Passport raises $43m from Bain Capital
Transportation mobile payments company Passport enters 2018 with an extra $43 million in the bank.
Union Mobile Financial Technology partners with transaction controls specialist Tranwall
Transaction control technology is headed to card and account holders in China, courtesy of UMF and Tranwall.
Thomas Cook and Ferratum launch mobile banking app for holidays, Sumo
The first ever mobile banking app designed for holidays launched in Sweden. UK to follow.
EBL launches Bangladesh’s first AI-based banking chatbot
EBL Digital Interactive Agent will communicate with customers via Facebook Messenger.
OfferZen and Standard Bank to launch bank account for developers, Root
2018 will see the launch of Root in South Africa, a bank account for developers.
Top ten fintech start-up stories in 2017
A busy year for fintech start-ups, but take a trip down memory lane with Banking Technology’s top ten.
A look back at 2017 and ringing in a new year for the payments industry
2017 has been another eventful year for the payments industry. From celebrities like 50 Cent getting involved (more on this later) to businesses neglecting the needs of pretty much every generation bar millennials, there hasn’t been a dull moment.
Tinkoff Bank first in the world to bring stories feature to mobile app
The bank has become “the first bank anywhere in the world to introduce a stories feature to its mobile app”.
Quovo launches PFM widgets
Financial data provider Quovo is getting into the personal finance management (PFM) game.
Southern Bank leverages PicturePay from Malauzai for digital payment service
Southern Bank launches a new digital payment option: Photo Billpay.
European Payments Council report: 2017 payment threats and fraud trends
An overview of the most important threats in the payments landscape.
TransferTo adds digital wallet to payments network via Cellum partnership
Cellum will offer money transfers via TransferTo’s cross-border mobile payments network.
Gemalto wooed by Thales’ massive wallet
Story needs more double entendres.
Banking Technology December 2017/January 2018 issue out now
In the eye of the storm we provide clarity.
Banking Technology Awards 2017: and the winners are….
The glamorous Banking Technology Awards 2017 took place on 13 December at the elegant Millennium Mayfair hotel in London.
Emirates NBD appoints chief digital officer, seeks fintech partnerships
Emirates NBD’s new chief digital officer is on the lookout for partnerships with fintechs.
Huawei teams with Xpress Money for mobile payments in Africa
The duo are targeting Africa’s unbanked population.
What is the future of digital cash?
The recent World Economic Forum (WED) report “Sweden could stop using cash by 2023”, says that the country is moving towards favouring cards and mobile payment apps. Yet retailers are expected to accept cash for at least a couple of years afterwards.
Deloitte: passwords about to become a thing of the past
New research from Deloitte has pointed the finger at biometrics for one of the big trends of 2018 as we start to forget our passwords
