Case study: Keytrade Bank’s transformation journey
Belgium’s pioneering digital native bank, Keytrade Bank, partners with Infosys Finacle for strategic evolution.
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Alpha Bank acquires Orange Money’s Romanian retail business
Alpha Bank Romania is aiming to become “one of the key players in the Romanian digital banking space”.
Cambridge & Counties Bank secures £20m Tier 2 facility from British Business Investments
With the fresh facility, Cambridge & Counties Bank aims to increase its volume of lending to small businesses.
Beyond the single customer view
Even if we have all the data on our finances, we need to be able to understand it.
Video: AI – friend or foe to financial services?
Fintech experts share their views on the impact of AI on financial services.
Citi debuts first LatAm fintech investment with stake in Peruvian FX platform Rextie
Rextie becomes Latin America’s first FX fintech to receive an investment from Citi.
Core banking tech provider Mambu names Fernando Zandona as permanent CEO
Zandona has served as Mambu’s interim CEO since June after Eugene Danilkis stepped down from the role.
White paper: Navigating extreme uncertainty to drive growth – top financial services trends in 2023
This free white paper explores how to leverage technology to drive innovation, cost savings and greater efficiencies.
Silicon Valley Bank makes two senior appointments to lead payment products and digital strategy
Martin Murrell has been named as head of global payments and Milton Santiago as head of global digital solutions.
Morgan Stanley hit with £5.41m fine after energy traders used WhatsApp to discuss market transactions
It is the first-ever electronic communication fine issued in Great Britain relating to trading energy products.
Krakowski Bank Spółdzielczy taps Diebold Nixdorf to modernise ATM network
KBS aims to upgrade its entire ATM network by the end of 2023.
Shoes
The context in which your teams do the work you ask of them is a rich tapestry of ever-changing factors.
Former Monzo execs launch new fintech start-up Sync Savings
The start-up recently closed its pre-seed funding round, the amount of which has not been disclosed.
MSUFCU veteran Benjamin Maxim named as Reseda Group’s new COO
Maxim has been a central figure at MSUFCU for over 16 years, having first joined back in 2007.
Colendi lands banking licence to become Turkey’s first digital deposit bank
As Turkey’s first digital bank, ColendiBank is aiming to reach 50 million customers regionally.
Standard Chartered global head leaves to found fintech start-up
Manohar Chadalavada is leaving the bank to be the co-founder of a fintech start-up currently in stealth.
Five credit unions tap MDT to deploy Banno Digital Banking Platform
The credit unions include Great NorthWest FCU, Sentry Credit Union and Peoples FCU.
Cynergy Bank lands £20m funding from British Business Investments
The bank plans to facilitate more than £250m in new-to-bank lending across the SME and property sectors.
AI-powered conversational payments to launch on India’s UPI
The tech will enable users to converse with an AI system to initiate and complete transactions.
Chilean digital bank Tenpo partners Dock for new credit card offering
The offering positions Tenpo as a competitor to traditional financial lenders in the country.
Survey: New customer acquisition in banking – state of play
Help us build a comprehensive picture of customer acquisition in banking and win an Apple Watch Series 8!
Forrester consulting study: The total economic impact of Chronosphere for observability
Chronosphere can help generate a 165% ROI with a $7.95 million in benefits present value (PV) after three years.
Case study: Cloud observability at a top fintech company
See how a notable US fintech company achieved results when switching from Grafana to Chronosphere.
Quick sheet: Five ways cloud native is a game changer for financial services
Modern observability meets the requirements that financial services organisations face in this new era of cloud native.
Quick sheet: Four ways your unreliable observability is costing you
Learn how to control costs while minimising downtime with this quick sheet.
Comparing cloud native observability: A financial services buyer’s guide
Optimising cloud native initiatives is vital – and cloud native observability offers that support.
Peoples Bank taps Corserv to launch credit card programme
With Corserv, Peoples Bank will be able to offer 14 different credit card products to its business and retail customers.
Points West Community Bank taps Apiture for digital banking upgrade
The bank says it wanted to enhance its digital banking solutions following more customers wanting to go digital.
eBook: Geocoding for business
How to select a geo addressing solution that supports a winning location intelligence business strategy.
eBook: Location intelligence for the cloud
Discover how to accelerate geospatial insights within cloud-native and big data environments.
Okan Ozaltin appointed as chief product officer of 10x Banking
Ozaltin brings more than 20 years of fintech experience to 10x, having worked at Signifyd, Fiserv and JP Morgan Chase.
Cebuana Lhuillier Bank taps Temenos for core banking platform
Temenos has tasked its delivery partner, Orion Innovation, with implementing the new core.
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If you choose to learn new things, do it properly. Start simple, build up and take your time.
Monzo tops CMA banking satisfaction survey once again
The independent survey was carried out by Ipsos and BVA BDRC between July 2022 and June 2023.
Tasi Bank taps Green Check to cultivate its cannabis banking capabilities
The partnership enables the “maverick” community bank to expand its cannabis clientele across California.
New digital bank for the US military Roger launches
Roger was built in partnership with banking technology solutions provider Nymbus.
DBS completes acquisition of Citi’s consumer banking business in Taiwan
DBS has also absorbed close to 3,000 employees from Citi Consumer Taiwan.
Starling Bank plans to take its BaaS platform Engine to APAC
CNBC reports that the challenger is in talks to deploy Engine with an undisclosed Asian bank.
More than 25 US credit unions and community banks tap Eltropy for AI Chat offering
ACFCU and First Credit Union are among the company’s to deploy Eltropy’s AI tech.
FCA asks UK banks to hand over data on bank account closures
The UK’s largest banks and building societies have until 25 August to supply the information.
