Sberbank, Gazprombank and Digital Horizon invest in biometric future
Speech Technology Centre aims to become a global leader.
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Australian challenger 86 400 partners with Vow Financial for home loans
As it seeks the regulator’s licence to deliver its own home loans.
TCF 2019: Temenos locks and loads digital banking offerings
“Making banking better” was the overarching message of Temenos Community Forum 2019.
Banking Technology April 2019 issue out now
Fintech spring is here, bringing the world colour.
White paper: FICO for fintech – Fraud and Compliance
Improve CX by building an agile defence ecosystem against financial crime.
Top fintech stories this week – 12 March 2019
Teradata’s event coverage, Sopra Steria acquired SAB, and other news.
Teradata Universe Madrid 2019: Teradata agrees that less is more
“Don’t invest in analytics!”, and in my mind, the crowd cheered.
Sopra Steria acquires France-based core system vendor SAB
SAB’s SAB AT will be added to the acquisitive French company’s existing range of acquired core offerings.
Bnext launches travel insurance
The Spanish challenger is already expanding its product portfolio.
New funding set to make Monzo second-largest UK fintech start-up
£1.9bn valuation will see the challenger bank leapfrog rival Revolut.
Standard Chartered fined $1.1bn for bad AML and sanctions breach
Both US and UK regulators have imposed large penalties.
When getting bad news is your way of knowing you are doing something right
I have been both a witness to and a participant in a conversation about something going wrong.
2gether’s prepaid crypto Visa card launches across eurozone
Follows successful beta launch in Spain.
New petition calls out big banks for stifling competition
The petition was started by the director of data analytics firm LendingMetrics.
Standard Chartered gets its head in the open banking game
This means the launch of three initiatives to incentivise partnerships and innovation.
SocGen’s trading woes amount to 1,600 staff cuts
CEO has left and trading is in a slump.
Banco BASE chooses Volante to deliver modern payments platform
Serving corporations and medium-sized businesses in Mexico.
Varo Money gets NICE AML tech
AML and KYC for all mobile needs.
Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 8 April 2019
Africa Fintech association, City watchdog’s orders, and a new blockchain alliance!
Partnership between Starling and FreeAgent takes flight
Aims to cut time spent on small business admin tasks.
Emirates NBD launches WhatsApp banking
The bank will expand the range of functions customers can use.
Hellenic Bank modernises payments with Fiserv
The Dovetail Payments Platform will help with customer personalisation.
Envel bank launches “driverless” money management tech
Personal finance, taken to the next level.
How to ensure your financial institution doesn’t survive past 2030
Free up your staff to work for more forward-looking organisations!
TCS wins core replacement at National Bank of Bahrain
NBB is replacing an extremely old core system, TC4, which was developed by an Indian company, CMC Limited.
PASPX in tech overhaul with Temenos
PASPX was founded in 2008 and holds an e-money licence.
Kudi raises $5m to expand bank agent network in Nigeria
Series A funding will support mission to serve underbanked people.
Watermark Bank makes a splash in Oklahoma
Built for entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Oklahoma’s first new bank since 2009.
Top fintech stories this week – 5 March 2019
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Crown Agents Bank bags Segovia’s payment gateway business
The bank provides payment services in frontier markets.
Chetwood launches new savings account SmartSave
It says it keeps the costs low through technology and by being outside London.
Three-way merger creates enlarged Bank of Baroda
The three banks are Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank, and Dena Bank.
Case study: Information Builders and Millennium BCP
See how the largest private bank in Portugal, Millenium BCP enhanced decision-making capabilities
AIB picks Boxever to personalise customer experience
Three-year contract is part of AIB’s digital transformation project
Doomsday musings: banking on the verge of a nervous breakdown
The systems we laboured over will be grandfathered and stuff we don’t understand will become important. Accept it.
Three Finnish banks to move to shared core and payments tech from Temenos
Temenos’ regional partner Cognizant will implement and manage the new platform.
CMA clamps down on open banking implementation
Five of the nine banks are delaying implementing mobile functionalities.
Tinkoff builds most powerful supercomputer in financial sector
Offers much faster solution to machine learning and AI-related tasks.
Nationwide and Jaywing explore “explainable” AI driven application scoring
The building society was impressed by Jaywing’s transparent model.
Bene working up to be a challenger bank in Australia
The firm currently offers digital loans.
