Vizolution evolves with £10m funding from three major banks
Santander, Royal Bank of Scotland, and HSBC supporting the Wales-based tech supplier.
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#IGForexChat 3: What does the next year hold for emerging market currencies?
FX trading provider IG is taking a look at what the next 12 months could hold for currency pairs.
BML Istisharat in new insurtech and banking tech projects
An insurtech project in Algeria and a core banking tech one in Jordan.
DBS Bank and Agrocorp to launch a supply chain blockchain platform
From Australian farmers, to Singapore and beyond.
White paper: The ROI of Omni-channel Digital Banking
How to calculate the ROI in digital channels the right way.
Citizens Bank pioneers SigFig’s new wealthtech for financial advisors, CoPilot
SigFig unveils CoPilot, a digital wealth management platform for financial advisors.
ICICI Bank integrates banking and accounting with Open
Targeting India’s micro, small and medium enterprise sector.
POPin Video Banking Collaboration unveils new brand and clients
“The industry’s first interactive mobile video banking solution” is now known as POPio Mobile Video Cloud.
Ping An rallies seven Hong Kong banks for blockchain trade finance platform
eTradeConnect is delivered by Ping An’s subsidiary OneConnect.
Bank Zero launches trial in South Africa
Bank Zero is mobile-driven, 45% black-owned an 20% women-owned.
Deutsche Börse and RegTek.Solutions join forces for regtech initiative
Certified testing and pre-validation service for clients of Deutsche Börse’s Regulatory Reporting Hub.
Lloyds customers leverages Open Banking for iwoca loans
Integrations with Barclays, HSBC, RBS, Santander and others are imminent, iwoca says.
Core banking tech developer Riby secures funding from Microtraction
Riby has developed a cloud-based core banking system for African co-ops and credit unions.
ABN Amro gets payment innovation infrastructure with ACI Worldwide
The bank hopes to achieve cost savings by migrating to a more cost-efficient IT platform.
First Bank takes it to WhatsApp with Clickatell
Customers will be able to bank through the chat app.
Mechanics Bank outsources core banking tech to COCC
COCC’s hosted core processing platform – Insight – is based on Fiserv’s DNA offering.
UK challenger bank MoneeMint secures funding
Aspires to be the UK and Europe’s first completely digital ethical bank.
Monzo closes £85m round as it plans more crowfunding
In its quest for a £1.5bn valuation.
Biz2Credit tech to provide online business loans to Popular Bank
Over half of business loans are processed online.
Coinbase raises $300m, now valued at $8bn
In its largest round of funding to date, digital currency wallet Coinbase has closed a $300 million investment.
FinovateAsia 2018: Best of Show winners unveiled
Congratulations to the trio of winners!
Ethical insurtech Ethos bags $35m
Round led by Accel.
Auka launches Settle for cross-European payments
Bringing the Nordic model to Europe.
Temenos gains new core banking tech client in Libya, Alejma’a Alarabi Bank
The project will be carried out by Temenos’ regional partner Prema Consulting.
Freetrade set sails for early access roll-out
Founded by André Mohamed and Adam Dodds.
Wahed Invest obtains $8m from existing investors
It claims to be the first Islamic fintech start-up to reach a valuation of $100 million.
TransferGo launches Seedrs aiming at €11.5m investment
Only €1 million will come from crowdfunders.
White paper: Real-Time Risk Analytics, Management and Compliance with In-Memory Computing
In-memory speed, unlimited horizontal scalability and broad integration to support any future needs.
Insurtech omni:us closes series A funding round
Berlin-based insurtech omni:us brings its total funding to $22.5 million.
NTT Data to acquire Canada’s Sierra Systems
The acquisition will provide Tokyo-based NTT Data with a “significant” presence in Canada.
Quid raises $37.5m in funding round led by Lexis Nexis’ investment arm
Quid’s $37.5m round was led by REV Ventures, bringing the total funding to $108m.
Central 1 and Backbase unveil new digital banking platform Forge
Alterna Bank and FirstOntario Credit Union are the first takers of Forge.
AbiLab and Italian banks to lead REDFin cyber defence initiative
Europe’s Readiness Enhancement to Defend Financial Sector (REDFin) project aims to protect banks from cyberattacks.
Bogota Savings Bank in tech modernisation with Fiserv
Bogota Savings Bank will implement Fiserv’s DNA core banking system.
Webinar: Why open source is a critical ingredient for open banking
Join Red Hat and FinTech Futures on 14 November for a live webinar!
State Bank of India and Hitachi join forces for cards and paytech venture
JV to create a “state-of-the-art card acceptance and future ready digital payments platform” in India.
Red Hat to be acquired by IBM in “game changing” $34bn deal
With the acquisition of Red Hat, IBM will become the world’s #1 hybrid cloud provider.
BGL Group acquires PFM app Bean
BGL will buy Saverd, the company behind personal finance management (PFM) app Bean.
Swych powers WeChat’s Travelex Pay for US shopping
Swych’s blockchain-based gift card technology will power Travelex Pay, offered by Travelex and WeChat.
UBS Wealth Management USA in wealthtech revamp with Broadridge
UBS Wealth Management USA to be “the anchor client” on Broadridge’s new wealthtech platform.
