Cambridge Blockchain and IHS Markit target KYC market
Will offer integrated reference data, operations and software.
Banking
Rabobank ventures to fintech frontier with $60m fund
Welcome to Rabo Frontier Ventures – and its focus on early-stage fintech firms.
Payments round-up: 30 January 2018
Featuring Vocalink, Shieldpay, Huawei, UnionPay, Pelican, PaymentComponents, Infosistema and Banco BAI Europa.
RELX buys fraud prevention firm ThreatMetrix for $830m
Deal is expected to close in the first half of this year.
Payments round-up: 26 January 2018
Features Alipay in Israel; ABN Amro and Payconiq ending talks; and Apple’s Business Chat.
New bank to launch in California, Endeavor Bank
First new bank to open in San Diego in ten years and one of only two new banks in California since 2010.
Top fintech stories this week – 26 January 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Drowning in regulation
With more and more regulations being added and enforced, how can companies keep up?
Unified monitoring: how banks can plan for success, not just prepare against failures
How to stay competitive among other brick-and-mortar operations.
Mastercard eyes biometric totality by 2019
Banks issuing Mastercard-branded cards will have to offer biometric authentication.
Trulioo launches KYC tool to connect MNOs
Will work with 24 MNOs from the US, Canada, the UK, China, India, Spain, France, and Switzerland.
Juvo gets Samsung investment for smartphone boost
Samsung will bring Juvo access to billions of underbanked prepaid users across the globe.
Payments round-up: 23 January 2018
Features DBS Bank, Xero, WeChat Pay and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Member Driven Technologies adds four US credit unions
They all opt for Symitar Episys core banking platform.
The open future is here: now comes the hard part
The arrival of open banking will (eventually) prompt entirely new services.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 23 January 2018
Featuring Kleros taking a chance, BitFlyer landing in Europe, and Nordea in the mood for banning.
Fintech funding round-up: 19 January 2018
Stars Varo Money, OakNorth Bank, NetPay and ISME ACE.
Banking tech round-up: 19 January 2018
Featuring Fiserv, HSLC, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Contovista, Piraeus Bank, Intellect Design Arena and Bank of Baroda.
Blockchain security firm Ledger raises $75m funding
Investment takes the company’s total capital to more than $85 million.
Top fintech stories this week – 19 January 2018
Catch up on our top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
We were kings when fees went to zero
Spirios Margaris discusses the troubling future of zero fee financial services.
Fintech funding round-up: 18 January 2018
Featuring BB&T Corporation, Solgari and Tinkoff Bank.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 18 January 2018
Features Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Jibrel Network, Yes Bank and HashCash.
Close to you – how white-label partnerships will continue to evolve
They have deepened and broadened, now covering more services than have been traditionally associated with the term.
Four regtech trends of 2017
Cast your mind back to 2017. Did the trends predicted shake the industry as much as we thought?
Banking tech round-up: 16 January 2018
Featuring Finastra, Cyberport, ME Bank, FIS, FinReach, Deutsche Postbank and Saxo Bank.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 16 January 2018
Post-trade scenarios, a cryptocurrency app and a trading platform. Stars Swift, DeVere Group and Horizon Software.
Visa pilots new biometric payment card
With Mountain America Credit Union and Bank of Cyprus for a new EMV dual-interface card.
Fintech funding round-up: 12 January 2018
Features Ladder, Petal, Fisco, Equitise and Xinja.
Top fintech stories this week – 12 January 2018
Catch up on FinTech Future’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 11 January 2018
Stars Saifu, Thales, Babb, Iznes, SETL and Sberbank’s new lab.
Intelligent Environments appoints new CEO
He most recently served as VP of EMEA at Fiserv. Prior to that, head of retail banking and insurance at Oracle.
How wearables will change everything
The next wave of technological transformation will be driven by the rise of wearable technology.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 10 January 2018
Features BNP Paribas Asset Management, Falcon Private Bank and the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange.
White paper: The bank executive’s guide to building a better business customer onboarding experience
Understand how to build an optimized online business customer onboarding experience and get it to market fast.
CIBC acquires Wellington Financial for lendtech push
Buys loan assets as it seeks to strengthen its presence in North America.
AI is on!
Implementation of first uses cases around real-time contextual added-value banking notifications and offers to make their appearance in 2018.
Top five lendtech stories in 2017
Lend us your time, with a quick look at 2017 with Banking Technology’s top five lendtech stories.
Top ten wealthtech stories in 2017
A wealth of talent washed over us in the wealthtech space in 2017.
Top ten insurtech stories in 2017
Time for a near total recall of the insurance scene in 2017.
