Experience-driven banking: experience enablers
A strategic choice whether you become a platform to enable experiences or you own experiences.
Partnerships
FinovateFall Supplement: be part of one of the biggest fintech events of the year
The perfect platform for your organisation to deliver a strong message to engaged fintech professionals.
Monroe Capital selects Allvue Systems’ credit solutions suite
The Chicago-based asset manager is seeking to improve tracking of investment exposures and lines of credit.
NerdWallet signs with Fluent Money for next UK mortgages push
The tie-up follows a competitive tender and builds on an existing relationship between the two companies.
The fallacy of compromise
In life, love and business: give it your all, fight, compromise but, whatever you do, know what you are getting into.
Barclays hires Standard Chartered’s Demery to support fintech clients
Demery takes over fintech partnerships in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Customers Bank plans blockchain-based payments with Tassat
US-based Customers Bank aims to tokenise USD payments with Tassat’s tech.
Thunes adds $60m to Series B round focused on network expansion
Singaporean cross-border payments firm has raised $130m in total.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 20 May 2021
The FinTech Futures weekly round-up of the industry’s top stories and happenings from across the globe.
What the Fintech? | S.2 Episode 11 | Introducing inclusivity
James Herbert, founder and CEO of Hastee, joins us on this latest episode of the What the Fintech? podcast.
UnionBank plans total cloud migration with Amazon Web Services
It aims to be the first entirely cloud-hosted bank in the Philippines.
Webinar summary: getting to market faster by outsourcing PCI compliance
How to get to market faster and decrease the direct and hidden costs associated with PCI compliance.
Safaricom mulls M-Pesa partnership with Amazon
A wider partnership with Amazon “is important”, says CEO.
Video: pick of the week – Bahrain to pilot digital currency; Facebook shifts crypto venture to US
A top pick of stories from the world of finance and tech in bitesize video format, twice a week.
Shortlist announced for PayTech Awards 2021
Register for the digital gala and networking on 8 July 2021 – it’s free to attend and open to everyone.
Silicon Valley Bank inks payments processing deal with Modern Treasury
Agreement will provide processing for SVB’s clients.
US Bank and Plaid sign API integration deal
US Bank customers will use Plaid APIs to connect to third party services.
ICYMI funding round-up: Mavience, VitraCash, KogoPay & more
We round up another selection of deals you may have missed.
PayPal deepens Google Cloud relationship with new infrastructure deal
Google Cloud to help PayPal process transactional data “at massive scale”.
Google Pay dips toe in cross-border market with Western Union, Wise
India, Singapore, and the US to be first countries trialled for remittances switch.
Video: pick of the week – Tink and AmEx team up; Commerzbank agrees 10,000 job cuts
A top pick of stories from the world of finance and tech in bitesize video format, twice a week.
Meeting omnichannel expectations in the new retail landscape
The use of connected retail now holds more potential than ever.
Banking Tech Awards 2021 now open for entries!
The awards are open to banks, financial institutions, technology and service providers, teams and individuals.
Tink and American Express sign European open banking deal
New AmEx customers will “seamlessly connect” to their accounts.
Vista Bank Group selects Radar Payments to power pan-African processing
African challenger bank selects BPC company to underpin payments.
Bill.com acquires spend management firm Divvy in $2.5bn deal
Bill.com is paying $625 million in cash and $1.875 billion of common stock.
Mashreq takes Oracle components around existing Flexcube core
Mashreq Bank is seeking to improve its transaction banking proposition.
Eurobank doubles down on Temenos with new wealth management system
Greek banking group is also undergoing a Temenos-based infrastructure change.
Miami neobank Fortú launches with Galileo Financial Technologies
Fortú plans to focus on Latinx communities and their unique needs.
Video: pick of the week – new payments system in Singapore, Bank of Ireland tech hires
A top pick of stories from the world of finance and tech in bitesize video format, weekly.
Report: AI – the future of content management in financial services
Our latest deep-dive report focuses on the potentially revolutionary role of AI in banking content management.
Lanistar secures FCA approval less than six months after regulatory warning
Lanistar also filed its unaudited accounts last month.
Ohpen offloads Davinci Consulting to Yellowtail Conclusion
Core banking vendor streamlines newly-acquired Davinci Group.
Omnio picks Autorek platform to automate reconciliation
Omnio’s previous manual processes relied on Microsoft Excel, but will now be automated by Autorek.
Virgin Money picks Trade Ledger for business banking boost
UK bank lays groundwork for new business products in 2021.
Deutsche Börse and Commerzbank team up to support DLT firm 360X
German giants support illiquid assets investment platform.
An era of digital trade
Technology creates opportunities to transform existing processes across global supply chains.
AZA Finance acquires Exchange4Free to become largest non-bank FX firm in Africa
Trading firm says it can double its transaction volume to $2.5 billion by 2021.
Sendit.Money chooses Lerex Technology for prepaid payments tech
Mobile wallet provider picks UK prepaid firm in preparation for launch.
JP Morgan, DBS Bank and Temasek to form new payments platform
The platform will start by facilitating flows between Singapore-based banks.
