Lunar Way gets €13m funding for Nordic conquest
Danish mobile banking service eyes up another neighbour.
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Unicaja Banco loans are in with Fintonic app
The marketplace incorporates the Spanish bank’s lending offer.
UK fintech investment reaches record $3.3bn
Industry body Innovate Finance serves up the stats.
White paper: The opportunities and data management considerations of hybrid cloud
Why are companies deliberately adopting multiple cloud providers? Let Hortonworks and 451 Research explain
Swiss corporate challenger bank Initium enters fintech arena
Plans to build a multi-jurisdictional corporate banking group.
Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 11 February 2019
Challengers Starling and Revolut, Tink, and the importance of digital assets.
Diamond Bank UK in tech review
Diamond Bank UK ponders the replacement of the Flexcube core banking system from Oracle FSS.
Supplement: FinovateEurope 2019
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Open banking: growing in customer trust in 2019
By 2022, the open banking market could be generating £7.2 billion in value.
Colombia’s fintech wakes up to open banking
New alliance between Colombia Fintech and Open Vector is a start.
Scotiabank taps Mexican talent for fintech accelerator
Canadian bank teams with Monterrey university for Mexico City action.
Morgan Stanley stocks up with $900m Solium acquisition
Wealthtech move marks its biggest deal since the financial crisis.
UBank releases AI loan advisor Mia
Can you put up with her “cheeky personality”?
Canadian challenger Motusbank moves in
Ontario credit union Meridian unveils its new digital bank.
Bnext aims to be Spain’s Monzo
Bright pink cards are certainly appealing.
2gether Global preps open beta beyond Spain
The “banking platform” has now released some of its promised features.
Morocco’s CFG Bank in digital banking revamp with Kony DBX
CFG’s strategy is built on “simplicity, transparency and sustainable customer relationships”.
BB&T and SunTrust $66bn merger leads to mega tech revamp
New deal is designed to keep their banking competitive.
Citi and HSBC capitalise on Capitolis FX tech
Streamlining the novation processes.
Ursa Finance bears down on UK challenger banks
UK challenger wants to de-automate banking.
SoftBank leads $440m funding round in UK challenger bank OakNorth
Plans expansion in North America.
Itau Unibanco catches criminals with AI-controlled cameras
Brazilian bank expanding pilot throughout its branches.
Announcing Genome beta launch at White Nights Berlin 2019
Genome opens for public beta in Berlin on 12 February 2019 introducing a unified finance ecosystem like no other.
Wells Fargo well and truly has banking problems
Some problems still linger for mobile and online users.
ChartIQ finds a path to $17.4m funding
US-based fintech has now raised a total of $20 million.
Deutsche Bank gets collateral tech from CloudMargin
“The first time a tier one bank will use a public cloud-based for collateral management.”
Top fintech stories this week – 8 February 2019
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Innovating at scale: to compete with fast-rising challengers, banks need to gain agility
How large established financial brands can draw lessons from challenger banks’ customer-centric success.
Sohar International adds biometrics to banking app
Very few details have been revealed about the implementation.
New York’s a wonderful town for Fiserv DNA
Fiserv signs its largest core processing deal with New York Community Bancorp.
Banco Best and Credit Suisse bring DLT to fund transactions
Putting the fun in FundsDLT.
Oney Bank is Well into Wirecard for biometric payments in Romania
Consumers will be able to pay with the app in over 30 stores.
Lloyds unleashes open banking app
Follows in the wake of Barclays.
SIA blockchain sureties a sure thing in south Italy
“The first blockchain project in Italy to manage sureties.”
BBVA psyched up for $5m DataSine investment
Bank’s Propel Venture Partners invests in psychology/ML tie-up business.
API platform Tink raises €56m and expands in Europe
Now coming to countries like the UK and Spain, among others.
Banking brickbats take out NAB’s CEO and chairman
Repercussions from Australian Royal Commission’s criticisms take effect.
Unite Global partners with WOCU for centralised currency
EXCLUSIVE. An electronic currency to support its payments platform for trade and settlement.
Barclays has nod and Bink for loyalty programmes
Barclays leads an investment round of £10 million into the start-up.
Mansfield Bank mans up with new CSI tech
The Massachusetts-based bank upgrades its digital offer.
