Barclaycard says rock me Amadeus for travel payments
Amadeus’ customers will get access to virtual cards solution, Precisionpay.
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Bill.com bans wire transfer fees for small businesses
Here’s a ban that businesses can really get behind.
Intel outfit ThousandEyes looking at $50m funding
Series D round includes GV, formerly called Google Ventures.
SIA wins Payments Canada’s tech revamp contract
Canada powers on with its new high-value payments system, Lynx.
Hong Kong Exchange buys into Shenzhen fintech
HKEX looking to boost its financial markets tech capabilities.
TerraPay takes cross-border payments to Sri Lanka
In partnership with Pan Asia Bank.
PSD2 goes live in Netherlands
The Dutch Central Bank is welcoming applications to use this regulation.
Japan’s fintech boosted by nonbank money transfers
The Financial Services Agency will grant licences for a more competitive nation.
Wirecard brings Chinese payments to Austria
Alipay and the like will be offered at 150 businesses in the beginning.
Kazakhstan’s Halyk Bank gets Fiserv cash management tech
Meeting the needs of a cash society in Central Asia.
White paper: Third-party cyber risk
Your weakest link.
SmartStream teams with Numerix for ISDA collateral management
Automated data management and risk sensitivities to the rescue.
UBS found guilty in France for aiding tax evasion
UPDATE. The bank has said it will appeal the decision.
Falcon Private Bank flies away from UK nest
Bank departs and sells assets of London-based subsidiary to Dolfin Financial.
Data intel firm GBG acquires IDology for $300m
UK firm buys identity verification and fraud prevention specialist for American dream.
Spirited Seoul plans $1bn spend on fintech start-ups
Seoul Innovation Growth Fund seeks to boost sector.
Danish and Estonian regulators under EBA investigation over Danske incident
The bank has also closed its Baltic and Russian operations.
Coinbase acquires blockchain intelligence platform Neutrino
Crypto exchange seeks better analysis of data on public blockchains.
LGT completes Avaloq roll-out across group
Austrian deal means all LGT’s main markets share this core system now.
Data manager Spinr spins into view for fintech SMEs
UK firm offers cloud-based data and API integration platform.
FCA appoints new chair for Financial Services Consumer Panel
Wanda Goldwag will start role from 1 March 2019.
NsKnox raises $15m with Microsoft’s aid
Fighting the fraud fight for payments.
TransferTo is at two with payments nature
Paytech rebrands as two firms – DT One and Thunes.
French health insurtech Alan raises €40m
The firm says it is very close to breaking even.
Blink and you won’t miss its Canada launch for travel insurance
Irish insurtech un-Corks the good news.
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Cyberattack puts Bank of Valletta in restoration age
Maltese bank recovering after a “malicious external attempt on its systems”.
Factris has X factor for Lithuanian expansion
Its investment plans follow on from Debifo acquisition last month.
Wealthtech Pictet picks NetGuardians for fraud fight
Swiss wealth and asset manager seeks better protection.
Life insurance is DeadHappy with pay-as-you-go launch
UK-based insurtech start-up awakens to walk the land.
US challenger LikeBank makes light work of messengers
Digital bank sits within Facebook Messenger, Viber and Telegram.
Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 18 February 2019
Features Monzo, Ant Financial, WorldFirst, Lloyds and more!
EBRD and Estonia unveil regulatory sandbox
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Baltic nation team up.
Mambu secures €30m funding for SaaS-y surge
Latest round led by US-based Bessemer Venture Partners.
Finastra’s Fusion Essence core system savours Saudi success
Saudi Arabia’s Agricultural Development Fund looking for better lendtech.
Morning wakes up as French challenger bank
“The account that wakes up the bank.”
SME lender Iwoca gets £150 million funding
Takes its total funding to £350 million.
Brazilian challenger bank C6 will see you now
It has its licence and is now testing out functionalities
German financial regulator stops shorting of Wirecard shares
Follows on from accounting investigation in Singapore.
Scotland’s SME challenger bank AlbaCo readies for launch
Glasgow-based entity plans to be ready in early 2020.
