Video: Top fintech stories this week – 20 March 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
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eBook: Tackling the data challenge for regulatory compliance in banking
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FinTech Futures update: business as usual
Our team is here to help the market navigate today’s challenging business landscape.
Temenos and ClearBank team up for UK cloud payments
The partners will offer access to real-time payment services.
Appian unveils software to help banks operate amid coronavirus outbreak
The application is only available to companies with more than 1,000 employees.
Video: Hot-seat with Steven Marshall, CCO of Crown Agents Bank
He reveals how a legacy institution can stay relevant and adapt in this digital wave.
Disrupting small business banking
I think what we (business owners) really want is an experience driven bank.
Stress testing: Turning an obligation into an opportunity
Challenges can be mitigated through greater automation and enhanced data management.
Cyber-incidents are on the rise: What can your firm do to defend itself?
Senior management should ask themselves five key questions.
Open banking: A move towards greater or lesser transparency in banking?
Will it reduce or increase information asymmetry between consumers and finserv companies?
Finovate Podcast: Episodes 21-30
The Finovate Podcast is a short, interview-based podcast featuring conversations from fintech’s elite innovators and influencers. For more than a decade, the global event series has brought together tens of thousands of people from across the fintech spectrum to see cutting-edge technologies. Now you can find out what goes on behind the scenes, as key influencers and […]
Interior Savings Credit Union picks Fiserv DNA
Canadian credit union shifts to new system to drive “flexibility”.
Who owns your data?
The answer to competition is not to block access to customer data.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 13 March 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Global fintech funding: 2018 still stands as the reigning year
As of February 2020, year-over-year deal counts were down by 22%.
Kyriba Live 2020: Is it time to partner up with fintech firms?
The question is whether fintech firms will want to join Kyriba’s platform.
SME challenger bank NorthOne raises $21m Series A
New York-based challenger plans to splash the cash on customer acquisition.
Western Union refunds $153m for scam victims
Western Union agreed to pay $586 million in monetary relief following a 2017 scandal.
CFPB files account fraud lawsuit against Fifth Third Bank
US regulator claims bank opened credit accounts without customers’ permission.
Do not fail fast, learn fast instead
Being advised to fail and do so at speed, as if that, somehow, was not a relative thing anyway.
Report on cloud transformation in banking: The 2020 state of play
Investigating how a new year and a new decade have impacted the drive towards a cloud-based future for banking.
FirstBank picks Finxact to replace 35 year-old core banking system
Colorado-based bank is among early takers of Finxact’s core banking system.
Challenger bank Copper latest to tap America’s teens
Copper is yet to reveal its launch date but has opened a waiting list to teens.
Banking Technology March 2020 issue out now
Keep calm and carry on: Where does COVID-19 leave the Chinese fintech market?
Can fintech eliminate credit discrimination?
Even the strictest laws can’t eliminate the inherent impression the credit manager forms.
Banks test disaster recovery sites and send staff home amid coronavirus
Senior bank execs are concerned about broadband capacity at their employees’ homes.
Ikano Bank builds on Nets partnership to power new lending platform
Ikano plans to launch products on the new service later this year.
White paper: Temenos recognised as a leader in the Forrester Wave™ for digital banking engagement platforms
Convincingly broad off-the-shelf capabilities for supporting channel-specific retail, business and corporate banking.
Financial regulators address the economic & operational effects of COVID-19
Regulators across the globe issue statements addressing coronavirus precautionary measures.
Fiserv acquires long-standing partner MerchantPro Express
The two firms have held a partnership since 2009.
The closet of shame
Everything that goes wrong in a bank, big or small, gets put neatly away in the closet of shame.
Thought Machine completes $83m Series B funding round
Core banking vendor plans to use the capital to expand into new markets.
Canadian challenger Neo Financial plans 2020 launch
Neo plans a credit card and rewards-based savings.
Dissecting banking technology trends in 2020
This year will be one of continued disruption and evolution in banking technology.
Standard Chartered joins Cobalt post-trade network
Multinational bank seeks to diversify its services to emerging markets.
The witches are coming
Our togetherness is our greatest legacy to a world that can and should do better for the next generation of humans.
Banks rely on big bang system replacements to cope with real-time demand
An evolving customer base demands accelerated time-to-market, says Oracle’s Vikram Gupta.
Credit card start-up Tribal Credit secures $5.5m in seed funding
New firm aims to help start-ups in emerging markets.
How APIs overcome the challenges of digital transformation
No transformation is pain-free.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 21 February 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
