New challenger bank on UK scene, Chetwood Financial
UK’s challenger bank scene has got a new entrant – Chetwood Financial.
FinTech
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 9 January 2018
Features Cardano Foundation, IOHK, Emurgo, Bitcoin mining, Microsoft and John McAfee.
New year, new us: say hello to FinTech Futures!
We’re starting 2018 with a bang!
AI is on!
Implementation of first uses cases around real-time contextual added-value banking notifications and offers to make their appearance in 2018.
Fintech funding round-up: 8 January 2018
Features IBM, Comcast, MState, Early Salary, Previse and Dinghy.
Intel hit with class action suit over CPU defects
Concerns the design defect found in all of Intel’s x86-64x CPUs.
London Assembly calls for change for short changed youth
Wants a bank account for every young Londoner.
Infographic: history of Ripple coin
Buyripple explains “how banks fell in love with Ripple” in this infographic.
Yes Bank and Nearby Tech bring cardless ATM services to India
With the aim to become the payments enabler for India.
Interview: Pranshu Maheshwari, SimpleMoney – on track for investment tracking
SimpleMoney’s co-founder explains the problem he’s out to solve and why he isn’t in the robo-advisory game.
Credit Karma teams with American Express to offer advance tax refund
With the new GOP tax law in place, Americans have begun thinking about 15 April – the tax filing deadline.
Cloud market soared to $180bn in revenue in 2017 – study
A 24% year-over-year increase, according to new research by Synergy Research Group.
Ghana government to leverage Entrust Datacard to issue national ID cards
Helping the Ghana government to issue national identity cards to its citizens in real time.
Funding Circle eyeing £1bn IPO
The firm is preparing to go public and plans to have advisors put in place to oversee.
Daon forges strategic partnership with North African tech vendor Gemadec
Extending services to customers in North Africa and French-speaking African countries.
Microsoft is a “deeply open source company”, says Azure CTO Mark Russinovich
Get used to the idea of Microsoft embracing open source.
DOS & Co to launch London’s first digital private bank
UK-based advisory firm DOS & Co is the latest name in challenger banking.
JCB tests multipurpose biometric authentication
in collaboration with Universal Robot and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
Top fintech stories this week – 5 January 2018
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Don’t fear the rise of the robots
With wildly conflicting views from experts on the topic, and given that most of us had our first interaction with artificial intelligence whilst watching The Terminator, it isn’t hugely surprising that there is a fear of the rise of the robots.
Failed fundraiser closes the folio on Folio
Closing this month after it failed to meet its fundraising target.
Ex-SoFi CEO on rebound with new fintech venture
Ex-CEO and SoFi founder plotting a comeback with a new fintech start-up amidst allegations of sexual harassment.
Kantox closes debt financing
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) supplied the funds to the UK-based company.
Are Amazon and Salesforce ditching Oracle?
If you say mean things about the other children, they won’t want to play with you.
Fintech journalist shares pointless predictions for 2018
The catastrophic catalogue of conjectures.
What were we Googling in 2017?
The biggest of fads of 2017, according to Google.
MIT warns of ransomware in the cloud and weaponised AI
How secure will the cloud be in the coming 12 months?
Tradeshift and Infosys team up to digitise supply chain management
The partnership will provide “a compelling value proposition to suppliers and buyers alike”.
Thomas Cook and Ferratum launch mobile banking app for holidays, Sumo
The first ever mobile banking app designed for holidays launched in Sweden. UK to follow.
Jordan Ahli Bank launches chatbot service, ahli bot
The first bank in Jordan to introduce a chatbot service. It is currently in beta version.
EBL launches Bangladesh’s first AI-based banking chatbot
EBL Digital Interactive Agent will communicate with customers via Facebook Messenger.
Meed leverages ID verification tech from Jumio to serve the underbanked
Identity verification tech provider Jumio has teamed up with California-based fintech Meed.
OfferZen and Standard Bank to launch bank account for developers, Root
2018 will see the launch of Root in South Africa, a bank account for developers.
AWS and Microsoft Azure lead $35bn public cloud market
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continue to grow.
Top ten fintech start-up stories in 2017
A busy year for fintech start-ups, but take a trip down memory lane with Banking Technology’s top ten.
Top ten fintech infographics in 2017
From cashless countries to Bitcoin crashes.
Top ten fintech opinion pieces in 2017
They thought for you.
Top ten payments projects in 2017
Enjoy some of the major payments projects in 2017.
Top five banking tech case studies in 2017
These captivating case studies caught our attention in 2017.
Top ten fintech features in 2017
What a merry time it was for fintech features in 2017.
