Top fintech stories this week – 6 April 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
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Swift gpi: move forward or fall behind
Making the case for banks to become Swift gpi-ready.
DBS dangling digital payments bait to corporate clients
Targets 30% reduction in corporate cheque payments by 2020.
CBA contrite over banking not going right
Systems now OK for Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
YapStone touches Couchbase for payments platform propulsion
Looking for inspiration with a cloud-native data sensation.
Sociable ICICI Bank slings “Social Pay” your way
Indian bank offers payment transfers through social media and e-mail.
Uber gives drivers a lift with Visa Debit Card
But it also faces tax problems in Denmark.
PayTech Awards 2018: meet the judges
The event is taking place on 13 July in London.
Fintech funding round-up: 4 April 2018
Stars DriveWealth, Starta Ventures and BitPay.
Australia gets tough on digital currency exchange providers
Cryptocurrency firms required to meet AML/CTF obligations.
Jio Payments Bank launches in India
A joint venture between Reliance Industries and the State Bank of India.
Wirecard and Crédit Agricole in digital payments duet
Not singing as such, more of a contract signing.
Revolut unleashes open API to all customers
Allows users to integrate Revolut for Business accounts with third party software.
SEC charges Mozido founder with investment fraud
Michael Liberty and “friends” took some real liberties with the cash.
ClearBank and Allpay join forces for UK prepaid and bill payments
Allpay can now provide a virtual account platform.
SoftBank and Alibaba to invest $445m in Paytm E-Commerce
Values the Indian firm at about $1.9 billion.
NatWest links with Vocalink to foil fraudsters
Bank bolsters defences for detection of invoice fraud.
Ripple joins Hyperledger Project
Ripple CTO says “developers will be able to access Interledger Protocol in Java for enterprise use”.
3dcart picks Payoneer for new payments partnership
E-commerce platform turns to Payoneer to send payments to more than 200 countries.
Banking Technology April 2018 issue out now
You sought symmetry. And fintech came to you.
Top fintech stories this week – 30 March 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
None better than non-clients for Citi mobile app
It’s an open house as non-Citi clients can connect their accounts to app.
PayTech Awards 2018: recognising successful individuals and teams
Celebrating people that make things happen!
RBS acquires FreeAgent
The deal values cloud accounting firm FreeAgent at $75 million (£53 million).
Braintree facilitates integrated payments with new tool
PayPal-owned Braintree is stepping up its paytech game with the launch of Braintree Extend.
Uber looking for Dutch payments licence
It’s a drive to diversification.
PaymentComponents and Natech partner for open banking push
AplonAPI will be integrated with Natech’s core banking solution.
NatWest unleashes ClearSpend app for company card control freaks
Free mobile app for commercial card customers.
Nabil Bank outsources card paytech to Compass Plus
Nepal-based Nabil Bank has migrated its card processing business to Compass Plus’ processing centre.
Fintech funding round-up: 27 March 2018
Features Candex, MarketInvoice and Konsentus.
Infographic: the power of $1
Instarem presents a series of infographics to find out what $1 can do for you.
Invisible payments come to Highbury
WoraPay tests out its order and pay platform as part of the Arsenal Innovation Lab.
New Zealand trials open banking
ASB, BNZ, Datacom, Paymark, Trade Me and Westpac join the pilot.
SimbaPay unleashes Pan-African remittances chatbot
In collaboration with e-payments and commerce firm Interswitch.
Equistone to acquire payments provider Small World
Private equity investor will buy a majority stake.
Amex buys UK payments start-up Cake for $13.3m
Cake Technologies provides app to pay restaurant bills in London.
Revolut’s a disposable raver for virtual cards
UK start-up plans to combat fraud with disposable virtual cards.
Mind trials contactless donation terminals with Santander
Mental health charity using terminals in ten shops in UK.
Swift goes universal for real-time payment tracking
gpi Tracker extended to all payment messages.
Top fintech stories this week – 23 March 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
