Banking’s long road to BaaS
The opportunity for BaaS is huge and compelling, but the journey to get there is long and complex.
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PayTech Awards 2021 now open for entries!
Open to financial and payment institutions worldwide, technology and service providers, individuals and teams.
Paysafe inks Azure cloud deal with Microsoft
The two firms extend an existing tech partnership.
Why factoring industry needs fintechs
Fintechs are to factoring companies what bars are to high jumpers.
FinTech Futures Industry Survey & Report 2021
A deep-dive into the trends defining 2021 and beyond, based on a comprehensive survey of the industry.
“Cloud first” emerging at the heart of end-to-end transformation
81% of FIs future-proofed their technology infrastructure by moving to the cloud, 63.6% reduced cost.
Croí Laighean Credit Union signs for Temenos SaaS platform
Temenos wins another Irish credit union for Community Banking platform.
Orenda plans BaaS shake-up with heavyweight banking execs at helm
Orenda says it’s as much as an “eighth” of the price of its competitors.
TransferWise rebrands as Wise to push platform capabilities
It’s dropping the first part of its name in a bid to underpin its expansion as a platform player.
Banking Tech Awards 2020 Winner: UBS – Best Use of Cloud
How UBS’s innovative hub helped 60,000 work remotely with virtually no downtime during the pandemic.
Low-code fintech OutSystems bags $9.5bn valuation in $150m raise
It claims to tackle the shortage of developers across 22 industries.
FinTech Futures presents Dock – a virtual roundtable experience
Take part in Dock on 18-19 May to discuss the industry’s pertinent problems and find the solutions.
Three things banks must do to thrive in 2021
It is the banks who invest now and execute effectively, that will come out on top.
How brands are becoming the banks of tomorrow
To understand what the bank of tomorrow looks like, we must first understand how they developed.
TransferGo picks Thought Machine for core operations
Money transfer firm switches things up in the back office.
NCR acquires digital onboarding start-up Terafina
Terafina marks NCR’s third acquisition this year.
Sync. signs deal with Railsbank to power premium accounts
The smart banking app is looking to expand following a 2020 launch.
Nymbus expands leadership team with new hires
Sarah Howell joins as chief alliance officer, while Larry McClanahan is chief product officer.
Rapyd raises $300m in Series D, plans more acquisitions
It will double the engineering and product teams and expand the “self-service” element of the platform.
Working amid COVID-19: why the cloud is the silver lining
How COVID-19 has accelerated the transition to the cloud.
Wealthtech Elinvar raises €25 million funding
Founded in 2016 in Berlin, Elinvar has “the vision to connect the entire wealth management ecosystem”.
Ten trends set to influence the payments industry
The financial services and payments sectors have a bright future, should these trends continue to develop.
The end to end benefits of cloud first transformation
Cloud has become a go-to technology for many in the financial services industry.
The Cambridge Building Society migrates to Azure cloud with DPR
DPR provides its mortgages and savings platform on the cloud for the society.
Mambu raises €110m to hit €1.7bn valuation
Cloud core banking vendor has raised over €150m since launch.
CODE Credit Union implements Symitar’s Episys with MDT
The conversion occurred entirely virtually.
What the Fintech? Season one | Fintech Jail
Here’s a list of all the buzzwords in our What the Fintech podcast game, “Fintech Jail”.
10x Future Technologies eyes $100m in Series C round
Its founder has hired financial advisory group, Lazard, to oversee its funding round in 2021.
Central State Bank goes live on Finastra’s Fusion Phoenix core
Fusion Phoenix is a modern core, built entirely on Microsoft technology.
Mastercard makes undisclosed investment in Form3
The additional undisclosed funding follows its $33 million raised in August this year.
IBM buys Canadian fintech Expertus to bolster payments offerings
The acquisition strengthens its portfolio as an end-to-end digital payments solution provider.
Unit raises Series A funding to offer banking intergration
The start-up has raised a total of $18.6 million to-date.
Cloud subscription consolidation platform Cledara lands $3.4m
“Most of Cledara’s initial clients came from organic growth.”
Swift calls for collaboration to help build the future of global transactions
Swift’s ambitious new strategy to reinvent global financial transactions.
Swiss challenger Alpian picks cloud hosted Temenos tech
Alpian plans to deploy Temenos Transact and Temenos Payments in a SaaS model.
Omdia Universe 2020-21: Temenos recognised as a leader for digital banking platforms
Based on Temenos’ combination of market impact, solution capabilities, and customer experience.
Digitalisation landscape in Pakistan – a tech view
The digital and tech teams of the banks need to “think out of the bank”.
Sberbank Switzerland outsources core to Avaloq
The implementation and migration took ten months.
Bancolombia turns to SunTec for enterprise pricing solution
SunTec says it has partnered with TCS “for a first-of-its-kind deployment in Latam”.
Comarch launches new factoring system
Comarch Cloud Factoring enables managing the entire lifecycle of an invoice with no paperwork involved.
