Top fintech stories this week – 10 August 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Are we seeing banks running out of fresh ideas for how they interact with their customers?
First wave of Sber#Up in-house accelerator ends.
Selects core banking software – Temenos’ T24.
EXCLUSIVE. Finastra, FIS and Fiserv believed to be in final bid.
Digitaler Mittelstandskredit ist hier!
EXCLUSIVE. T24 is starting to break into the US.
Three US start-up banks are being launched in North Carolina, with one also powering up in South Carolina.
White paper by Fiorano.
US-based automated account switching solution is switched on.
New firm enters alpha testing phase.
More data sharing and more security are the goals.
Stay teachable. And in doing so stay humble.
Barclays failed, for a second time, to send annual reminders to PPI customers.
On the heels of Monzo and Starling.
Claims to “get” small businesses.
Ohio-based credit union moving to Portico core system.
The duo will help banks integrate core systems with applications.
FastForward Innovations shows interest in blockchain record-tracking company.
A $9.5m initiative for early-stage firms.
New funds will be used to launch additional product lines.
The solutions cover balance sheet management and funds transfer pricing.
Targeting farmers and the rural population.
It has “not learned its lesson about the importance of user privacy”.
A comprehensive list of challenger banks and banking services in Australia and the tech they are using.
DirectID platform integrated into B mobile banking app.
Partnered with Almoayyed International Group.
“At least a branch in every district.”
To “bridge the gap” between digital and high street challengers.
A comprehensive list of challenger banks and banking services in the US and the tech they are using.
First release of the TradeIX platform on blockchain goes well.
“Toddlers play in sandboxes. Adults play by the rules.”
The bank incorrectly denied hundreds of people mortgage modifications.
Nova Merchant Bank is the first taker of the Intellect Digital Core system in Nigeria.
In the era of digital transformation, banks must evolve, or customers will simply walk out of the branch for good.
Ziraat Bankasi KSA has upgraded its core banking system, Temenos’ T24, from R10 to R17.
Potentially open to action in Nordic insurtech and lendtech.
Think of Airbnb, Uber and Apple. Also think of solarisBank.
United Overseas Bank loves the overseas.
Zopa is moving from P2P lending to banking and savings.