UK agriculture-focused challenger Oxbury Bank lands £100m from British Business Bank
Oxbury Bank provides flexible lending and asset finance solutions specifically for the needs of farming businesses.
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Qatar’s CQUR Bank partners Finastra to power new online corporate banking portal
The bank’s new portal will service its corporate clients with digital workflows and host-to-host integration solutions.
Walking the talk with composable banking
Composable architecture creates real flexibility for banks looking to make changes to their cores.
Atom Bank on track for balance sheet growth following £100m equity raise
The bank’s “long-term” shareholders, BBVA, Toscafund and Infinity Investment Partners, participated in the raise.
Banking Technology Magazine November 2023 issue out now
Cover story: PHOENIX RISING – How to breathe new life into digital transformation.
Israel’s One Zero digital bank seeks to raise up to $100m led by Deutsche Bank
The start-up plans to use some of the funding to fuel its expansion across Europe.
Mainframe as a service
Mainframes are alive and well. But everyone knows they will have to eventually move off them.
Webinar | 7 December 2023: Beyond the hype – exploring the real-world use cases for AI in financial services
Join us for what’s sure to be a fascinating deep dive into the world of AI in financial services.
Nominations now open for the seventh annual PayTech Awards
Submit your nominations before 15 March 2024.
Proven to standardise Caribbean operations on ERI’s Olympic core banking system
ERI says the move will position Olympic as “the primary core banking platform in a multi-entity set-up” at Proven.
Deutsche Bank plans to cut Postbank branch network by nearly half
The bank is reportedly planning to close around 250 of its 550 Postbank branches within the next three years.
Kuwait Finance House launches new youth-focused digital bank Tam
Tam offers a digital savings account, prepaid cards, student allowance management and local transfer services.
The unfolding landscape of open banking
As regulatory sands shift, businesses should be confident moving towards open banking.
The US Federal Reserve proposes new single cap on interchange fees
Reserve board member and governor Michelle Bowman has opposed the revised cap.
Kasikorn Bank snaps up 97% stake in cryptocurrency exchange Satang for $103m
Satang Corporation is to be rebranded as Orbix Trade Company with three new subsidiaries.
IndusInd Bank taps Viamericas for digital inward remittance offering
The bank says its remittance platform provides customers with full transparency over payments.
UAE’s Ajman Bank selects Codebase Technologies to power retail “super-app”
Ajman Bank will utilise Codebase’s Digibanc platform along with cloud solutions from Cloud4C and Microsoft Azure.
UK core banking tech vendor Thought Machine cuts workforce by 8%
The job cuts are expected to impact around 50 roles predominantly in its sales and marketing departments.
BNP Paribas taps Lenvi to manage risk for factoring and receivables finance
BNP Paribas will deploy Lenvi’s Riskfactor product portfolio in eight countries across Europe.
Demystify Podcast: Demystifying conversational interfaces with Zor Gorelov, founder of Kasisto
Zor Gorelov, founder of Kasisto, shares his visionary perspective on the emergence of artificial financial intelligence (AFI).
Sudan’s Africa and Gulf Bank selects Temenos to power digital transformation
The bank previously signed up for Path Solutions’ iMAL Islamic core banking system back in 2020.
Dodging a dark data disaster
The amount of dark data being collected by firms is increasing, and its overall environmental impact is massive.
Morgan Stanley appoints Ted Pick as new CEO
James Gorman will transition to the role of executive chairman after serving as CEO for the last 14 years.
Exclusive: Monese drops Thought Machine’s core banking solution Vault in favour of homegrown XYB platform
Monese’s Santosh Radhakrishnan and Bhavik Sanghvi discuss the reasons behind the switch with FinTech Futures.
The plague of learned helplessness
You don’t always get good options. But there are always options. So show up and make the choices.
MAS orders DBS Bank and Citibank to investigate banking services disruption
The banks were unable to recover their systems within the allotted time following a service outage in Singapore.
FinTech Futures triumphs as best digital media platform at Fintech B2B Marketing Global Awards
FinTech Futures was named the winner in the Best Innovative Integrated Digital Media Platform category.
National Australia Bank partners Greener to reduce small business climate emissions
Greener’s business solution was launched earlier this month following its seed funding round.
NET Credit Union selects Bankjoy for digital onboarding solution
Bankjoy says its solution enables new customers to open an account in just 90 seconds.
Scottish challenger Alba Bank taps ClearBank for SME payment management
With the ClearBank partnership, Alba Bank aims to offer “near real-time payments” to its customers.
Al Rayan Bank goes live with Confirmation of Payee solution from obconnect
The PRA directed the bank last year to instate a CoP system by 31 October 2023.
Íkualo to launch next month as neobank for Europe’s financially excluded immigrant community
The licensed electronic money institution will be able to onboard new customers with just a passport.
US Federal Reserve Board slaps $14.5m fine on Metropolitan Commercial Bank
The Board alleges that the bank violated customer identification rules.
Banking Tech Awards 2023 sponsorship opportunities
Unmissable sponsorship opportunities – digital and physical – at the upcoming Banking Tech Awards on 30 November.
ClearBank designates Jonny Fry as digital assets strategy lead
In his new role, Fry will be tasked with developing the bank’s position within the digital assets market.
India’s Kotak Mahindra Bank appoints Ashok Vaswani as CEO and managing director
Vaswani currently serves as president of Pagaya and as non-executive director at LSEG.
Video: Bank of America at Sibos 2023 – The evolution of transaction banking
At Sibos 2023, we sat down with Chris Jameson of Bank of America to discuss the shifting transaction banking landscape.
JP Morgan and Mastercard’s new Pay-by-Bank solution goes live in the US
Verizon has revealed it will pilot the solution with its US customers “in the coming months”.
BBVA merges its three tech subsidiaries to form BBVA Technology
The bank says the new company will have “a more strategic focus” on software development transformation.
How the UK’s FCA is set to scrutinise banks’ treatment of PEPs with new review
Dr Henry Balani of Encompass Corporation discusses the impact of the review on the UK banking system.
