Ethiopia’s Hijra Bank signs core banking deal with Path Solutions
The bank will utilise Path Solutions’ iMAL core banking platform.
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Open banking: a new global standard?
How are different countries actually approaching open banking adoption?
Musicians to gain dedicated neobank with Nerve
The Texas-based start-up says the music business deserves music banking.
Nymbus to offer Marstone’s digital wealth suite following new partnership
Partnership will see the two US firms integrate their offerings.
Transact365 – change the way you process online payments
Localise, globalise and optimise your business with Transact365’s range of payment and banking solutions.
The importance of customer-centric strategies for traditional banks
To thrive and grow, banks must identify how they can be more customer-centric.
eBook: Five ways data is redefining financial services
Find out about Snowflake’s modern data approach for financial institutions.
Webinar: Mobile financial super apps – what’s your strategy and what are you waiting for?
Learn how you can win the mobile banking app battle and secure your future banking business.
Standard Chartered Bank Korea adopts OpenLegacy API technology
SCB Korea is looking to overhaul its technology as part of its digital transformation.
Philippines to close digital bank licence applications as GOtyme gets the nod
Central bank says the window for digital banking licence applications will close on 31 August.
Fintech innovation and the cloud: securely connecting the future of banking
Hybrid or multi-cloud environments can potentially provide banks with added flexibility and security.
eBook: Three data trends in financial services
How banks, brokerages, and fintech start-ups can collect, store, analyse, and share data easily and securely.
Christian Financial Credit Union picks NCR tech for digital banking revamp
Michigan credit union praises NCR for “seamless integration”.
US fintech One lands $40m in Series B funding
Start-up aims to bring “all-in-one banking” to middle-class Americans.
The birth of personal banking assistants
Banks should aim to utilise more data to become a personal banking assistant for your money/wealth.
Goldman Sachs to acquire asset management firm NNIP in $2bn deal
US bank continues drive towards new revenue streams.
Danish challenger Kompasbank goes live with Mambu’s cloud banking platform
COO says Mambu is “the right choice to help us on our growth trajectory”.
Resigning to the facts
People join companies but leave managers. And that is a fact.
LHV UK appoints three new execs to support UK banking push
Gary Sher, Assad Kazi and Rebecca Wright join as CFO, CRO and CPO, respectively.
Financial inclusion: understanding the needs of the underbanked
Better access to a wider range of banking services can help drive financial inclusion for all customers.
Goldman Sachs hires AWS exec to boost asset management division
Kamlesh Talreja joins to improve client experience for Goldman clients.
Chime secures $750m funding to reach $25bn valuation
The San Francisco-based firm has now raised over $2 billion in total funding.
Reimagining customer experience in financial services
Utilising the cloud can help banks get customers to the right person at the right time.
Figure Technologies to merge with Homebridge Financial Services
Blockchain firm says its technology can double Homebridge’s capacity.
Azentio Software acquires Islamic banking vendor Path Solutions
Singapore company, spun out of 3i Infotech, plans end-to-end platform with new assets.
Temenos wins long-term deal with Hamilton Reserve Bank
Caribbean bank signs up Temenos to cover a range of banking services.
British Business Bank selects Solidatus for data management
Firm looks to boost its data governance and data lineage capabilities.
Is a change of approach required to benefit from cloud services as critical infrastructure?
It’s a fine balancing exercise of facilitating and encouraging innovation and adoption of cloud integrated services.
ICYMI funding round-up: Sarwa, Salad, Grip, Keebo & more
Another collection of funding rounds and raises from all over the world you might have missed this week.
Mambu wins new digital banking deals in Colombia and Vietnam
German banking vendor signs a pair of new deals spread across the globe.
Triodos Bank UK partners SurePay to deploy Confirmation of Payee solution
Triodos says it chose to partner with SurePay due to its “best-in-class” platform.
US neobank Upgrade secures $105m Series E funding round
The new funding round values the firm at more than $3.3 billion.
The social dilemma
With half the world on social media, why are so many FIs still shying away from it in fear?
Cosy murder
Accepting the premise of the question keeps things tidy, but life doesn’t work that way.
Objectway acquires German core vendor Die Software Peter Fitzon
Italian software company plans all-in-one wealth and core product suite.
Kroo nets £17.7m Series A funding to build new digital bank
Neobank hopeful aims to secure a full banking licence ahead of a planned launch in 2022.
Fintech start-up dopay gains Egyptian banking licence
The payroll company is looking to launch a new digital banking platform in the country.
Fintech is facing diversity challenges – but there are reasons to be optimistic
There’s work to be done on forging greater equality in fintech, but there has been some progress.
Reserve Trust raises $30.5m in Series A, appoints new CEO
B2B payments firm says it can provide a service to cut out correspondent banking middlemen.
UBS fined by Hong Kong’s SFC for compliance breaches
SFC slaps $1.5 million fine on Swiss bank for multiple issues.
