Microsoft and Commerzbank head into #openspace for German SMEs
Microsoft experts will get involved in the various #openspace formats for the development of new business models.
Partnerships
Payments round-up: 10 January 2018
With special guest stars Worldpay, Como Global, Mastercard, Here Technologies, Dream Payments and Wirecard.
Cake4Good fintech charity bake off!
Where you can bake it! Fake it! Or buy it! In support of The House of St Barnabas.
When it comes to regtech, going it alone isn’t an option
Collaboration is the name of the game for regtechs trying to get ahead, according to Chris O’Driscoll of PA Consulting.
Insuritas launches i-Insure platform with property and casualty carriers
Insuritas has launched its i-Insure platform with 42 auto and home insurance carriers in the US.
Credit Karma teams with American Express to offer advance tax refund
With the new GOP tax law in place, Americans have begun thinking about 15 April – the tax filing deadline.
Daon forges strategic partnership with North African tech vendor Gemadec
Extending services to customers in North Africa and French-speaking African countries.
Microsoft is a “deeply open source company”, says Azure CTO Mark Russinovich
Get used to the idea of Microsoft embracing open source.
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.
ACI Worldwide and HyperPay partner to fight fraud in MENA
The two companies will offer integrated, real-time fraud prevention solutions for e-commerce payments for merchants in MENA.
Ripple to launch Infrastructure Innovation Initiative
Ripple is taking “the next logical step to help build the internet of value”.
Bluefin buddies up: Decryptx P2PE network grows to 50+ connected partners
Bluefin Payment Systems’ point-to-point encryption network Decryptx has onboarded new partners.
TransferTo adds digital wallet to payments network via Cellum partnership
Cellum will offer money transfers via TransferTo’s cross-border mobile payments network.
Standard Chartered and Ant Financial buckle up for Belt and Road drive
They target expanding their fintech clout along the “Belt and Road Initiative” route.
NICE teams with Brightstar India
To support the launch of NICE Uptivity, a workforce optimisation solution for SMBs.
Fintech trends 2017: blockchain, big data… what’s next?
2017 ends with the Bitcoin having surpassed the $19,000 mark. Could this perhaps be a taste of our future?
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.
ECB chooses Unisys for IT operations
Includes IT support and operation of its data centre.
NetGuardians teams up with Masaref Business & Systems Consulting
Will bring the Swiss fintech’s anti-fraud solutions to FIs in the Middle East.
Commerzbank and HSBC partner for securities settlement
Commerzbank and HSBC Transaction Services have formed a new partnership for securities settlement.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 11 December 2017
Featuring the Gibraltar Parliament; Cboe Global Markets; and Waves Platform, Ethereum and Deloitte teaming up.
FI.SPAN partners with Beanworks to build B2B payments hub
FI.SPAN will provide pre-integrated third party fintech solutions into the hub.
Fifth Third Bank chooses FIS for real-time payments
US-based Fifth Third Bank has chosen FIS to enable real-time payments (RTP) for its customers through The Clearing House’s (TCH) payments system.
Startupbootcamp launches Scale innovation programme for start-ups
Startupbootcamp has unveiled the launch of Startupbootcamp Scale, an innovation programme for growth stage start-ups in emerging markets.
Klarna to fuel payments for Worldpay
Worldpay and online payments firm Klarna are joining forces. Worldpay clients in Austria, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK will be able to use Klarna’s invoice and credit-based payments.
Convenience versus control: getting the balance right
Nick Kerigan, MD of Future Payments at Barclaycard, looks at how innovation is helping the payment industry to balance offering seamless payments with keeping people in control of their money.
Cybersecurity needs to be a global and coordinated effort
Recent cyberattacks, such as the October 2017 Swift attack, show how vulnerable financial firms across the globe are to the machinations of hackers.
BS/2 and VisionLabs fool fraud with faithful facial recognition tech
BS/2, a Lithuanian banking technology company, and VisionLabs, a face recognition software provider, have teamed up to fight financial crime by offering contactless identification for self-service terminals. The duo will offer an integration solution – using BS/2’s ATMeye.iQ, a self-service video surveillance and fraud prevention system, and VisionLabs’ LUNA face recognition platform. The solution uses […]
ADGM goes out to Plug and Play for Middle East innovation
The agreement by Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) is the latest sign that the hot MENA fintech sector is about to get a lot warmer, reports David Penn at Finovate (Banking Technology’s sister company). The new partnership calls for Plug and Play to open a new office in Abu Dhabi […]
RightCapital integrates with Envestnet | Tamarac API
Thanks to a new partnership between RightCapital and Envestnet | Tamarac, financial advisors on RightCapital’s platform will be able to use Tamarac’s API to directly access account and holdings information from their clients, enabling real-time financial and tax planning advisory, reports David Penn at Finovate (Banking Technology’s sister company). RightCapital’s technology used Monte Carlo simulations to enable […]
Top fintech stories this week – 1 December 2017
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 29 November 2017
Bitcoin high, Russian firsts, trade finance digitisation, US moves, and an interoperability alliance. Another day of action in the busy blockchain and Bitcoin world. Features Sberbank, IBM, Infosys Finacle, BitFlyer and the Blockchain Interoperability Alliance. Doubt you missed it, but Bitcoin has reached an all time high of $10,000. We were inundated with similar comments […]
Payments round-up: 29 November 2017
No quiet days, and no respite from the action. Our latest paytech round-up stars Instarem, Form3, Starling Bank, Optile and Worldpay. Singapore-headquartered start-up Instarem has expanded into Malaysia, “solidifying its presence” in Asia Pacific (APAC). The firm already has individual and corporate customers in Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong. Instarem says it has licences in […]
Microsoft and SAP expand HANA and Azure partnership
Microsoft and SAP are expanding their current cloud partnership to include additional support for SAP software running on the Azure public cloud. The two companies also plan to use each other’s applications internally, reports Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology’s sister publication). The expanded partnership coincides with Microsoft’s biggest rival for public cloud – Amazon Web […]
Passport to success: optimising treasury technology in the connected age
To reap the real benefits of technology, treasurers should be thinking about an extended journey, not a day trip.
VMware and Amazon grow hybrid cloud tie-up
VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are expanding their hybrid cloud partnership to run VMware workloads at “very large scale” on AWS, a VMware executive says. VMware is launching new tools for migrating and scaling production applications to AWS, as well as business continuity and disaster recovery services, reports Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology’s sister […]
Nordea finds fintech heaven with Nordic angel network
Nordea’s start-up and growth unit has unveiled a new partnership agreement with Nordic Business Angel Network (NordicBAN), a network of start-up investors in the Nordics and Baltics.
BehavioSec’s behavioural biometrics right match for Crossmatch
BehavioSec has partnered with identity management firm Crossmatch in a deal that will add keystroke capture to Crossmatch’s composite authentication platform, DigitalPersona, reports David Penn at Finovate (Banking Technology’s sister company). “We selected BehavioSec’s platform because they are singularly focused on behavioural biometrics and have well-established and proven technology that already serves more than 35 million end […]
