OP Financial Group signs Minna Technologies to advance open banking
Finland’s largest financial group calls the partnership “the right match”.
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Adflex CEO: Cards are definitely fighting back
Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) will disrupt the age old four-player system.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 20 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
AI-powered pension solution Abaka raises $6.5m in Series A
The fintech says it’s “one of the biggest” investments for the pensions and retirement space.
Small business lender iwoca lands in Leeds to boost fintech hub
The fintech promises at least 100 employees in the northern city by 2023.
Starling and Monzo hike up overdraft charges for bad credit scorers
Starling is currently the cheapest option only going as high as 35%.
FinTech Futures Industry Survey 2020
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Finovate Podcast: Episodes 11-20
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Tall tales of big ambitions and small parcels
There is nothing wrong with accelerating your career. But as always, the how matters.
China’s fintech scene started late but trumps US, says Baidu’s fintech arm
Du Xiaoman Financial talks fintech and AI in China.
Starling Bank partners with QuickBooks to sync up ledgers with transactions
Accounts ledgers will update automatically with each transaction.
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Supplement: the 2019 fintech review
Ruby Hinchliffe dissects her top five 2019 fintech trends from this year’s top stories!
Ask the expert: have you got the “H Factor”? Perfecting the art of the hustle
You too can embrace and hone your inner H Factor.
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Everything you need to know when investing in cryptocurrency.
FinovateEurope 2020: what’s new?
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Robinhood does fractional shares, users can invest just 1 cent
An Amazon stock, which would cost $1,700, suddenly becomes as cheap as $1.
Mexico’s neobank Albo raises $26.4m Series A total
The round was led by Valar Ventures, PayPal founder Peter Thiel’s fund.
CULedger completes blockchain identity pilot with three US credit unions
MyCUID has been implemented in the call centres of the credit unions.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 13 December 2019
FinTech Future’s weekly news round-up.
Time is now: US investors seek fintech opportunities abroad
Fintech investors are looking outside of the US for greater returns.
Hong Kong’s fintech WeLab raises $156 million to launch WeLab Bank in 2020
Backers included Alibaba’s Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund and China Construction Bank.
Finovate: fraud prevention, cybersecurity and regtech
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Portify raises £7m to offer gig economy and freelancers access to credit
The UK start-up landed a partnership with Deliveroo earlier this year.
Mexican neobank Flink gains seed funding from Spanish firm Latina
The Spanish technology company sees a bright future in Flink.
Token turns digital money solution into new paytech M10
M10 is building a “bank-grade digital money rail”.
Three more UK payday lenders collapse before Christmas: MMP and PiggyBank
The collapses follow regulatory clamp downs on affordability checks and compliance.
Are you a homo economicus? Fintech and the human touch
Time to embrace behavioural economics – a mixture of psychology, decision science and economics.
The time has come to make Open Banking evolve into open finance
The whole financial world must evolve decisively and with openness when approaching and preparing for innovation.
Freelance payments platform Paydesk partners with TransferWise
TransferWise’s API will mean users won’t have to consult their bank to get paid.
Apple Card fees pinch retailers’ profits this Christmas
Supermarkets are taking a stand against the fees.
Banking Technology December 2019 / January 2020 issue out now
A year in review.
Open banking start-up Bud signs three-year deal with HSBC
The deal follows Bud’s huge staffing restructure and market change.
Plug and play platform FintechOS raises £10.7m
The start-up enables banks and insurance companies to compete with challengers.
Mastercard and Doconomy bring carbon tracking to Bank of the West and Nordea
The news was unveiled at Madrid’s UN Climate Change Conference COP25.
Necessary conditions and sufficient convictions
If your “why” is simply “to make money”, your proposition may carry all the cynicism of yesteryear.
Freetrade brings first native full stack solution to UK
The exec team come from Snapchat, Google and KPMG.
Jumia to close Rwandan business
It comes just weeks after it exited Cameroon and Tanzania.
Montréal’s FlexPay raises $6m in seed round
The fintech says 24% of recurring credit card transactions are falsely declined.
Brazilian fintech Cora raises $10m, founded by Wirecard company creators
Founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes created MOIP which was bought by Wirecard in 2016.
