2020 review: Top five cyberattacks this year
Cybercriminals haven’t stopped their activities in 2020.
BankingTech
Combination of weaknesses led to massive data breach at Desjardins
The incident compromised the data of nearly 9.7 million Canadians.
2020 – A shock to the system for the banking industry
Fintech Futures talks to James Buckley, vice president and Europe director for Infosys Finacle.
EXCLUSIVE: Neobank First Boulevard launching next year to target Black America
CEO and founder, Donald Hawkins, tells FinTech Futures about the process of the name change.
FCA fines Barclays £26m over poor treatment of customers in financial difficulty
Barclays did not dispute the FCA’s findings and agreed to settle the case.
What the Fintech? Episode 18 | Year in review
We relay our industry highlights of 2020.
Paytech firm Ondot acquired by US banking tech giant Fiserv
Fiserv says the Ondot takeover will help it provide a “unified digital experience” to customers.
How banks are tackling the “Frankenstein” workaround
The future of banking lies in a modular approach,” says Fineco.
Swift calls for collaboration to help build the future of global transactions
Swift’s ambitious new strategy to reinvent global financial transactions.
Aussie neobank Xinja crumbles under unfeasible interest rates
The neobank landed a full banking licence last year.
Mexican challenger albo raises $45m in Series B funding round
Albo has now raised just over $72 million across five rounds.
The music of embedded finance
Embedded finance is all about making the admin of life seamless, low-friction and invisible.
Banking Tech Awards 2020 winners unveiled!
Watch Tom Ward perform his stand-up and unveil the winning projects, companies and people of Banking Tech Awards 2020.
Swiss challenger Alpian picks cloud hosted Temenos tech
Alpian plans to deploy Temenos Transact and Temenos Payments in a SaaS model.
Connect bank operations from front to back
Improve efficiency and compliance while simultaneously lowering costs and risks.
Société Générale acquires French digital sales platform Reezocar
The bank wants to expand the car sales start-up’s insurance and financing.
Banking Technology December 2020 / January 2021 issue out now
Ready to take 2021 by the horns.
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.
iBanFirst appoints Said Layadi as new CTO
Layadi joins after stints at Euronext and Ingenico.
MoneyGate signs core banking deal with Finartix
Cypriot EMI picks out a new core system while its application processes.
Česká Sporitelna signs infrastructure deal with Leveris
Czech bank aims to revamp software and databases.
Digitalisation landscape in Pakistan – a tech view
The digital and tech teams of the banks need to “think out of the bank”.
The Fintech Review: 2020
We cover embedded finance, competition, open banking, and CBDCs.
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”.
How digital labour helps financial firms cope with market volatility
Digital labour can offer a range of operational benefits.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 11 December 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
White paper: The business value of ServiceNow for retail banks
The value retail banks will achieve annually at $29.54m per organisation ($70,000 per 100 users) by using ServiceNow.
Standard Chartered to launch crypto custodian in UK next year
The bank will, through Zodia, provide custody services for Bitcoin, and Ethereum.
Australian business banking challenger Gallantree adds crypto function
Gallantree targets entrepreneurs, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
Don’t turn a blind eye to spreadsheet vulnerabilities
Introducing PrizmDoc Cells, a secure solution in an intuitive, Excel-like web interface.
Banking’s Christmas ghosts
Charles Dickens’ popular novel, “A Christmas Carol”, gets a banking spin.
Texans Credit Union selects Episys core system
The $1.7bn credit union needs 12 employees to maintain its legacy system.
The times are always a’changing
The story we try to reconstruct and the story we tell ourselves isn’t the full story.
Comarch launches new factoring system
Comarch Cloud Factoring enables managing the entire lifecycle of an invoice with no paperwork involved.
Bank of England’s Islamic liquidity announcement “a huge vote of confidence”
UK’s Islamic finance sector welcomes ALF announcement from central bank.
Modularbank lands €4m to set up UK commercial operations
The start-up claims to be cashflow positive since its inception.
Moov Financial raises $27m in Series A funding round
The latest round follows a seed round from August.
Deutsche Bank expands Google cloud partnership
Major German lender expands cloud usage to lending and retail banking.
Solving payments and card challenges with a platform approach
A platform approach improves efficiency and customer trust.
