The power of the collective
Martha Mghendi-Fisher is creating a community – a tribe – for women in the financial services industry.
Partnerships
First Women’s Bank picks Fiserv to underpin 2021 launch
The US neobank will operate out of Chicago to challenge small business lending in the US.
Unqork signs Life.io partnership weeks after $207m Series C
Life.io will build its customer engagement apps on Unqork tech.
Russia’s Yandex and Tinkoff scrap $5.5bn deal
Internal email suggests agreement was lost on nature of the merger.
Stripe acquires Nigerian start-up Paystack in $200m deal
Paystack has 60,000 business customers across Nigeria and Ghana.
Tide and GoCardless sign invoice-chasing payments partnership for SMEs
The two firms claim SMEs are suffering without timely invoice payment.
Modul8 and Nium partner to provide card-issuing for APAC region
The two claim they can deliver the service for companies in as little as three months.
Bank of America teams up with Black-owned Unity bank
BoA has acquired approximately 5% of the bank’s common equity.
Capitec Bank selects HPS PowerCard to power new product launches
The South African Bank aims to “simplify” banking for its customers.
Ranqx signs digital lending deal with Mambu
The New Zealand firm will deploy Mambu tech alongside its own systems.
Banks must empower SME clients with more than a repackaged retail account
“Once you strip back a lot of the functionality in retail banking it’s more about experience than solving issues.”
Citi invests in markets software firm Genesis Global Technology
The undisclosed strategic injection sees Citi deploy some Genesis tech.
Sibos 2020: Banks must persevere with difficult fintech partnerships
CommBank CEO CommBank says all deals are valuable learning opportunities
Bank of Thailand launches “world’s first” blockchain platform for bond issuance
IBM acted as a technology partner with its IBM Cloud.
The value of 20/20 hindsight
Anders la Cour, co-founder and CEO of Banking Circle, examines the lessons of 2020.
Digitalisation Component Framework: an inside-out approach to digital transformation
Discover new areas where automation can be implemented & improve efficiencies without replacing existing systems.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 02 October 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Swift launches project for “brilliantly simple” SME cross-border payments
The messaging and infrastructure network makes next step in new strategy.
Mastercard and ACI sign payments infrastructure partnership
The pair are targeting central banks, schemes, and service providers.
Old dogs, new tricks and procurement
It’s time for the banks to work together to standardise their onboarding processes and documentation for fintechs.
PayTech Awards 2020 now on YouTube: celebrity host, comedy stand-up, winners and more!
Watch Zoe Lyons perform her stand-up and unveil the winning projects, companies and people of PayTech Awards 2020.
Crown Agents Bank pens Vodacom mobile payments partnership
The bank extends its services to a potential pool of 13.4m customers.
Bank of Baroda searches for new digital lending platform
Bank of Baroda searches for new digital lending platform.
Trio of European start-ups raise fresh funding
Factris, KodyPay, and Swan all complete funding rounds this week.
Yandex plans $5.5bn acquisition of Russian neobank Tinkoff
Russian tech giant plans to snap up the country’s largest online bank.
Goldman Sachs launches transaction banking service with Volante
The new cloud-based system is an “industry first” according to the pair.
Knowing how the story ends
“Where do I begin?” If you have ever asked me, you know my answer is always the same: in the middle.
Live Oak Bank deploys Finxact core for deposits and loans
The US lender picked Finxact in 2018 to revamp its core systems.
ClearBank offers multi-currency accounts through JP Morgan API
UK clearing bank claims to be the first of its kind to provide the service.
Competition concerns over fintech acquisitions
The CMA’s concern with mergers and acquisitions is to do with the potential impact on UK customers.
Trio of UAE banks go live with klip digital wallet solution
Klip uses QR tech to enable contactless payments.
West African microfinance confederation goes live with SAB’s AT
SAB AT rolling out across six institutions in five West African countries.
Subaio launches outside Nordic home with ABN Amro
To date, the 25-person fintech has signed contracts with seven banks.
Emirates NBD deploys new payments hub with TCS Bancs
The UAE bank goes live on TCS Bancs after kicking off the project in 2019.
EXCLUSIVE: Oracle wins deals with Mashreq Bank and Desjardins
Oracle has also picked up a new deal in Bangladesh.
European Commission resumes LSE-Refinitiv antitrust probe
The EC had paused proceedings in July as it waited for data.
Refinitiv and Microsoft agree on Azure partnership
Microsoft’s flagship cloud platform to support Refinitiv going forward.
One more time, till you’ve got this
It’s time to pay it forward. To the next guy and gal.
TrueMoney partners with Thunes to activate global remittances
Thunes claims to work with partners in more than 100 countries.
UK Finance scheme stops £19m of fraud in 2020
The Banking Protocol teams up police and bank staff to stop fraudsters in branches.
