Top fintech stories this week – 6 July 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Banking
Between a rock and a hard place: navigating strategy conversations with cynics and pessimists
Spend time finding the right time to bring the cynics and the pessimists onto your journey.
Cyber solution provider ThetaRay gets $30m funding
Investment takes company’s total equity capital to more than $60 million.
Additiv and Orange Business Services in juicy wealthtech hook-up
European robo-advisor Additiv makes its cloud-based tech available to banks and FIs.
Veridium’s $16.5m Series B funding led by Michael Spencer
Other contributors include Citrix Systems and investor Michael Powell.
Inspire FCU to deploy Nymbus core banking solutions
Nymbus will replace 15 technology vendors in the process.
JP Morgan Chase’s mobile app Finn goes nationwide
Finn by Chase is designed for millennials in the US.
39 firms complete KYC trial on R3’s Corda blockchain
Four-day collaborative trial and 300 transactions.
Sensory’s biometric tech powers 24 banking apps
Banks iclude Alior, Axis, Banorte, ICICI, Maybank, Mizuho Bank, and Qatar Islamic Bank.
Top fintech stories this week – 29 June 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Blockchain Summit 2018: the role of banks and how not to get lost in the hype
Banks seek to define their role amidst all the new kids on the block.
Banking Technology Awards 2018: celebrating most innovative projects of the year!
Enter the awards by 31 August.
Report: State of digital sales in banking
The results are in! Read the third annual Digital Sales Report.
Open banking survey: how is the digital revolution really bedding in?
How is Open Banking really bedding in? What are the early lessons?
BizEquity brings Valuation-as-a-Service to TD Bank
BizEquity just signed its first – really big – bank.
Don’t be that guy: cautionary tales for banking and life
You’ve been warned.
Merrill Lynch app makes mobile merry work of paperwork
Part of its digital expansion strategy, focused on mobile features.
SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper comes to HSBC USA
Robots relish retail banking.
US Bank partners with Optum360 to help hospitals’ money management
Brings support in revenue cycle management at receivables at hospitals.
Biometrics firm Veridium touched by $150,000 grant
The grant is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
National Bank brings NFC mobile terminals to Canada
Canadian Mobeewave provided security and encryption.
Better Fintech launches for financial equality
Former Green Dot employee wants to foster financial literacy and equality in the US.
P2Binvestor raises $17m to expand lending programme
To fund growth mostly for its new bank partnership programme.
Webinar: Banking reimagined – building an integrated digital ecosystem
Join Capgemini and FinTech Futures on Wednesday, 11 July for a live webinar!
Financial sector organisations must forge ahead with video or risk getting left behind
Fantasy has quickly become reality.
KeyBank acquisition Bolstr-s digital lending dream
US-based bank buys digital lending platform for small businesses.
Top fintech stories this week – 22 June 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Banking and financial services jobs: mobility at an all-time high
AI is a new corporate site selection driver
Webinar: How to automate critical processes with compliance in mind
Are your processes compliant by design?
NYC fines Deutsche Bank $205m for FX up
New York State Department of Financial Services is FX-ed off.
Corporate innovation bods, acting normal “How was your day?”
I want to tell you all about my day.
Hyperactive PayPal acquires Hyperwallet for $400m
Gives it more payment solutions to e-commerce platforms and marketplaces.
Fiserv signs up two new credit unions to core account processing platform Portico
The duo is Sioux Valley Community and Coulee Dam Federal.
Wealthtech robo-advisor SigFig raises $50m
Series E funding round led by growth equity firm General Atlantic.
NorthOne launches free invoice app
An app for small business owners, entrepreneurs and freelancers.
Brex unveils corporate card for start-ups
It also now has a total of $57 million in funding.
The Fintech Station has now arrived in Montreal
Finance Montreal’s new hub gets support from government of Quebec
Baker Hill brings cloud lending thrills to First Bank
North Carolina-based bank will use online loan application solution.
Finastra acquires banking app provider Malauzai
Deal strengthens its involvement in US retail and business banking sectors.
Fiserv on the money for Dollar’s retail and business banking
Architect to be used as single platform.
