Banking Technology Magazine April 2022 issue out now
Cover story: WINDS OF CHANGE – Tackling the carbon cost of technology.
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au Jibun Bank: a relationship for the long term
How au Jibun Bank aims to repay customer loyalty by constantly improving their banking experiences.
White paper: Inter-bank privacy enhanced information sharing – fraud detection and prevention
The use of privacy-enhancing technologies that enable banks to share customer account and device information.
Money transfer app Azimo acquired by payroll and payments firm Papaya Global
The acquisition follows Papaya Global’s $250 million Series D funding round last September.
Blockchain.com valued at $14bn following Series D funding round
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Baillie Gifford.
Egyptian super-app Khazna secures $38m Series A round
Khazna has now raised a total of $47 million to date.
Cross River lands $620m investment to fuel expansion
The round was led by Eldridge and Andreessen Horowitz.
UK credit card start-up Yonder exits stealth, raises £20m
Yonder is designed for the five million-strong ‘credit invisible’ market underserved by current credit providers.
How fintech can boost financial inclusion for Latin American SMBs
Fintech can give SMBs better access to financing to encourage progress and development.
Webinar: How to drive up digital completion rates with hybrid banking
Learn how to optimise the digital customer experience, merging the two worlds of digital and physical.
FinTech Futures Jobs: Three great London-based jobs to apply for this week
Exciting open vacancies at Freetrade, Shopify and Railsbank. Apply today!
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 1 April 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Video: SmartStream on the use of AI and ML for regulatory alignment and transaction reporting
FinTech Futures chats with Jethro MacDonald, product manager at SmartStream.
New German fintech SaveStrike aims to help millennials invest and save
The upcoming SaveStrike app is designed to make spending, saving and investing more straightforward.
Citi plans to scale global e-commerce payments platform to 30 countries
Spring by Citi enables the bank’s institutional clients to accept consumer payments online.
US fintech Mosaic secures $25m Series B funding
The Mosaic platform was launched in 2019 and is designed to ‘reboot’ financial planning and analysis.
Australian fintech start-up Yondr Money goes crowdfunding to boost growth
The Aussie challenger bank is looking to raise up to $1.5 million through crowdfunding.
Apollo Fintech taps ThetaRay for Sonar AML monitoring tech
Apollo Fintech will deploy Sonar on its new bank-to-bank payments service Knox Wire.
ICYMI fintech funding round-up: Archie, Dapio, Finary, Jia Finance, & Zimpler
Our weekly fintech round-up for you to get the latest funding news from around the world.
A panel, a chat, and confirmation that ESG is a tough nut to crack
I recently attended a hackathon at Finovate Europe focusing on ESG in the financial services industry.
White paper: State of customer experience in financial services
Insight on the shifts driving the CX priorities and practical information on how best to address them.
White paper: Next-level digital transformation in banks
How to transform the customer banking experience to compete in today’s always-on digital economy.
Charity donation app Toucan acquires fellow start-up DonatePal
DonatePal co-founder Zishan Sheikh will also join Toucan as a board advisor.
What the FinTech? | S.3 Episode 4 | Risk, resilience and regulations
In this episode, we’re joined by Wayne Scott, regulatory compliance solutions lead at NCC Group.
Swiss fintech start-up Yokoy raises $80m in Series B funding round
Yokoy has now raised more than $107 million in total capital to date.
Goldman Sachs snaps up retirement robo-advisor NextCapital
The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2022.
Mobile payments firm PM Connect appoints new CEO and CTO
Kevin Dawson has joined as the new group CEO with Sanjay Mistry joining as CTO in June.
Egyptian credit fintech Lucky raises $25m Series A
The cash will go towards cementing Lucky’s position in the market and building out its credit offering.
Où est la boulangerie?
When you ask me a question, help me pitch my answer at the right level. That’s the point of communication.
Help us make Streamly video platform better!
Streamly is a new video platform for fintech practitioners, offering specialist video content.
Vitruvian partners German fintech start-up Moonfare, invests $35m
The funding from Vitruvian brings Moonfare’s total capital raised to date to $220 million.
Video: Morgan Stanley at Finovate Europe 2022 – driving financial inclusion
FinTech Futures chats with Morgan Stanley’s Sanghamitra Karra about the importance of financial inclusion.
UAE’s Mashreq Bank launches paytech subsidiary Neopay
The new wholly-owned subsidiary will consolidate all of Mashreq’s existing payment systems into a single platform.
Medius snaps up US-based invoice payments specialist OnPay
The deal will see Medius open a new corporate office in Q2 2022 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Digital banking solutions provider Alkami buys data insight fintech Segmint for $135.5m
Alkami intends to integrate Segmint’s machine learning tech with its digital banking capabilities.
Aussie paytech Zepto secures $19m Series A raise
The Series A round was led by Airtree Ventures and Decade Partners.
DevOps: how utilising automation can help financial institutions get ahead
Financial institutions need to embrace digital transformation to keep pace in a highly competitive market.
Lunar set to acquire Norwegian digital bank Instabank for €132m
Founded in 2016, Instabank claims more than 60,000 customers in Norway, Finland and Germany.
New US banking app Swell set to launch in summer
Launching in June, the app combines checking, credit and more into one integrated account.
Lithuania’s Fintech HUB LT appoints new board and chairwoman, Asta Grigaitytė
Grigaitytė joins from the Bank of Lithuania where she worked on payment system CENTROlink.
