Open banking: progressing to the summit
Banks and disruptors alike are still trekking through the foothills of open banking.
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Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 18 March 2019
More open banking news, fintechs in LatAm, an a MasterCard acquisition.
Tech giant SAS commits to £1bn AI investment in three years
It aims to develop new AI skills as well as teach customers how to use them.
Sweden’s SEB chooses DTCC’s Global Trade Depository to meet SFTR obligations
DTCC has added data transformation services to its SFTR offering.
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Client experience: hallmark of the digital credit and lending journey
What is the Holy Grail of credit and lending transformation?
Capital Markets Gateway gets its way with $7.5m funding
Creating a path for capital markets professionals with a round led by StageDotO.
Customer service platform Glia gets $20m funding
A Series B funding round led by Insight Venture Partners
TickSmith powers CanDeal’s DataVault Innovations
The company will use the Data Pooling Platform to launch its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering.
White paper: Multi-cloud fundamental to financial services’ transformation
Discover major trends that are impacting financial service businesses
Salt Edge teams up with UK-based PFM app Emma
Integration will enable Emma users to connect their accounts from banks throughout the UK.
US Senate attacks lax Equifax cybersecurity defences
Senate reveals investigation into 2017 data breach that affected 146 million US consumers.
First State Community Bank picks Jack Henry’s lending suite
New tech is provided by Jack Henry’s ProfitStars division.
GreenKey Technologies secures investment from IPC
IPC gets exclusive rights to GreenKey’s machine learning voice solutions.
Top fintech stories this week – 8 March 2019
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Wealthtech Gluskin Sheff turns to Broadridge tech
New investment management tech will help manage portfolios and compliance.
Poland’s Alior Bank calls for fintech start-ups
Acceleration programme wants ideas in security, data analysis and finserv.
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How can you grow your fintech firm with a business software solution?
ID verification firm Socure so cool with $30m funding
The Series C round takes the company’s total funding to $57.5 million.
Disruption through diversity and empowerment
“Be bold. You have earned it. More importantly, if you don’t value yourself, how can you demonstrate it to others?”
Microsoft’s M12 leads SpyCloud’s $21m funding round
Latest round takes Texan firm’s total capital to more than $28 million.
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Assets, habits and the wand that chooses the wizard
Can you tell which bit of generalities “we have data, customers and scale” actually holds value for the future?
Risk, finance and regulatory reporting: adopting an integrated approach
Banks with the most flexible, integrated FRR architecture will appease the regulators. How to achieve it?
HSBC mixes with NepFin for middle market move in US
American firms via NepFin can now tap into HSBC’s commercial banking services and its network.
How Blockchain is revolutionising data processing
What benefits can be derived from blockchain?
Will challenger banks motivate change?
The need for digital transformation has been obvious for years and the window of opportunity is about to close.
Rebrand takes analytics firm OmniSci to promised land
Will double workforce by end of the year and move into new San Francisco headquarters.
Entrust Datacard acquires Thales’ data security business
Will get the general purpose hardware security module, nCipher Security.
Data intel firm GBG acquires IDology for $300m
UK firm buys identity verification and fraud prevention specialist for American dream.
Financial services leading on “Voice First” technology strategy, but there is work to be done
Richard Stevenson, CEO, Red Box, looks at how voice is a critical data set for digital transformation.
Coinbase acquires blockchain intelligence platform Neutrino
Crypto exchange seeks better analysis of data on public blockchains.
NsKnox raises $15m with Microsoft’s aid
Fighting the fraud fight for payments.
Case study: Citizens Bank – fintech friendly
The 13th largest bank in the US pivots for digital era.
I.T. (insurance technology) had to be you
The sector should fall in love with tech that will bring it closer to customers, creating collaboration and trust.
IBM strikes $700m deal with Santander for digital drive
Five-year tech agreement includes AI, blockchain and big data plans.
CanDeal and six Canadian banks create market data hub
BMO, CIBC, National Bank, RBC, Scotiabank and TD are involved.
AI-powered banking experiences
Machine learning can help banks restore the personalised service they were once noted for.
Scotiabank taps Mexican talent for fintech accelerator
Canadian bank teams with Monterrey university for Mexico City action.
