Atos bids €4.3bn for Gemalto to create IoT giant
An attempt to create an industry powerhouse in the markets for cybersecurity and digital products.
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Penta’s on for business bank accounts in Germany
Berlin-based challenger bank Penta has officially launched its business bank account offering in Germany.
ING cuts bond trading time with AI-powered Katana
The name’s bond. Tamed bond.
Hyperwallet now supports payouts from Amazon’s Australia marketplace
‘Tis the season for online shopping (and selling).
NetGuardians teams up with Masaref Business & Systems Consulting
Will bring the Swiss fintech’s anti-fraud solutions to FIs in the Middle East.
Avoka raises $16m in new funding
Digital customer acquisition technology firm gets equity funding in a round managed by Moelis Australia.
Microsoft releases quantum development kit for AI
Microsoft sets out ambitions to create a quantum computer that can be used to address complex issues such as AI.
Commerzbank and HSBC partner for securities settlement
Commerzbank and HSBC Transaction Services have formed a new partnership for securities settlement.
Two more US credit unions join Fiserv in tech revamp
Illinois Educators Credit Union and Members Financial select Fiserv for their tech overhauls.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 11 December 2017
Featuring the Gibraltar Parliament; Cboe Global Markets; and Waves Platform, Ethereum and Deloitte teaming up.
IoT spending to reach $772bn in 2018 – report
Spending on IoT could reach $772.5 billion by the end of 2018, with the whole market headed toward $1 trillion by 2020.
ABN Amro’s Prospery supported by Five Degrees’ tech
EXCLUSIVE: ABN Amro’s new wealth management proposition, Prospery, has implemented Five Degrees’ Matrix solution.
Best Innovation Group brings Enrichment to credit union with Amazon Alexa
Enrichment FCU has rolled out Best Innovation Group’s financial interaction voice experience Amazon Alexa skill.
Fintech funding round-up: 11 December 2017
This round-up features WorldRemit, PAIR Finance and an update on Sophia the AI robot and SingularityNET.
Singapore insurtech firm Etiqa nets deals with Ministry of Finance and DBS Bank
First insurer to integrate with MyInfo, a digital data vault launched by the GovTech and the Ministry of Finance.
Cisco buys cloud optimisation firm Cmpute.io
Looking to take some of the pain out of managing multicloud environments.
FI.SPAN partners with Beanworks to build B2B payments hub
FI.SPAN will provide pre-integrated third party fintech solutions into the hub.
Report: Global security spending will top $96bn in 2018
New regulations are forcing enterprises to spend more of their IT budgets on security.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 8 December 2017
The latest features IOTA, Microsoft, Indonesia’s central bank and Australian Securities Exchange.
Coinbase caught up in Bitcoin blowout
What happens when you’re facilitating the trade of a product that is experiencing extreme hockey stick growth?
nanopay launches B2B payment platform
Canada-based payments platform nanopay has unveiled its new B2B payments solution for international trading.
Dell posts smaller Q3 loss
The company continues to absorb its EMC acquisition, as well as branch out into new areas, such as IoT.
Five US credit unions in core tech revamp with Fiserv’s DNA
Five credit unions in the US have opted to implement Fiserv’s DNA core processing platform.
UK cybersecurity centre showcases second wave of start-ups
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has revealed its latest batch of nine cybersecurity start-ups.
Fifth Third Bank chooses FIS for real-time payments
US-based Fifth Third Bank has chosen FIS to enable real-time payments (RTP) for its customers through The Clearing House’s (TCH) payments system.
Infographic: GDPR & B2B marketers – less aware but more prepared
According to the latest research by DMA, a UK trade association for the one-to-one marketing industry, those in the B2B space are trailing slightly when it comes to having a detailed awareness of what the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws entail.
Startupbootcamp launches Scale innovation programme for start-ups
Startupbootcamp has unveiled the launch of Startupbootcamp Scale, an innovation programme for growth stage start-ups in emerging markets.
Survey report: UK bank account opening comparison
Have any UK high street or challenger banks made the jump to 100% digital onboarding?
Alior Bank to launch fintech accelerator
Alior Bank has unveiled its acceleration programme for technology start-ups using the OpenAPI environment based on IBM technology, implemented by business solutions developer Tuatara.
Top fintech stories this week – 8 December 2017
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Fintech Connect Live 2017: the unleashing of AI and ML
Fintech Connect Live 2017 is a gathering of some of the biggest players in the fintech. With the looming rise of open banking and the cryptocurrency surge, it’s the smaller start-ups and innovators of smart technologies in banking that are making headway with use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML).
Deloitte: passwords about to become a thing of the past
New research from Deloitte has pointed the finger at biometrics for one of the big trends of 2018 as we start to forget our passwords
Infographic: insurtech job market
Meta search engine Joblift analysed the UK’s insurtech job market, comparing it to both the traditional insurance industry, and the insurtech market in the UK’s major competitor Germany.
Al Baraka Banking Group signs for Path Solutions’ iMAL core banking system
Bahrain-based Al Baraka Banking Group (ABG) has signed to implement the iMAL core banking system from Path Solutions at four of its 15 international subsidiaries.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 7 December 2017
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up – features a nasty hack on NiceHash; Pundi X in Indonesia; a Deluge Network for ICOs; and Blockchain Centre Vilnius in Lithuania.
UK university reveals security flaw in millions of banking apps
Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK have found a security flaw that put ten million banking app users at risk.
Prevoty raises $13m in Series B funding
Real-time app security platform Prevoty has got an investment of $13 million. The Series B round was led by Trident Capital Cybersecurity, and featured participation from existing investors such as USVP.
Klarna to fuel payments for Worldpay
Worldpay and online payments firm Klarna are joining forces. Worldpay clients in Austria, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK will be able to use Klarna’s invoice and credit-based payments.
Viola plans to pull strings with $100m fintech fund
Israeli investment group Viola has tuned up nicely with an initial closing of $100 million toward a target of $120-$150 million for its new global fintech fund.
Moneycorp expands with acquisitions in Brazil and UK
The Moneycorp Group will acquire Brazilian foreign exchange business Novo Mundo Corretora de Cambio, and UK-based currency firm First Rate FX.
