Mortgagetech Blend launches insurance agency
Wants to offer the right blend of mortgages and insurtech.
Innovation
Arizona first US state to offer fintech sandbox
Lawmakers stop talking to do something.
US challenger banks: who’s who and what’s their tech
A comprehensive list of challenger banks and banking services in the US and the tech they are using.
Debonair DNB completes trade finance test with Marco Polo
First release of the TradeIX platform on blockchain goes well.
New York state stands against fintech sandboxes
“Toddlers play in sandboxes. Adults play by the rules.”
Mitek helps bring mobile deposit to credit unions
Assisting with the fight against cheque fraud and mobile enterprise digital transaction.
ICE is Bakkt to the future for digital assets
Intercontinental Exchange forms a new company.
Business Payments Directory Association teams with Discover for blockchain PoC
Will develop a platform for its B2B directory built on blockchain technology.
Top fintech stories this week – 3 August 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
How to organise a successful funding round for your start-up
Lessons learned from Penta’s CEO and co-founder following its €2.2 million seed round.
On expectations, gardening and promises kept: banking edition
Cross fences, walk on the grass till you find your tribe.
US Treasury seeks fintech industry to treasure
Plans to make regulatory landscape better.
Atos digital DNA drives revamp for insurer CNA
Love is in the air with new multi-year relationship.
US regulator opens up national bank charters to fintech
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency now welcomes applications.
Barclays and JP Morgan lead $14m funding in Cloud9
Cloud9 will speed up roll-out of its SaaS-based voice communications platform.
Finra wants fintech feedback on US broker-dealer industry
US-based Financial Industry Regulatory Authority open to ideas.
AXIS Capital launches insurtech investment arm
Company aims to up its investment game via AXIS Digital Ventures.
ebankIT to power digital banking for Canada’s Coast Capital CU
Canada’s largest credit union by membership turns to ebankIT.
Tips for writing a Banking Technology Awards winning entry
Let us know why your project deserves the recognition.
CLS and IBM furnish fintech with hosted blockchain service
Duo unveils services hosted on DLT platform LedgerConnect.
Be at the heart of the biggest fintech event of the year – Sibos 2018
Explore opportunities with Daily News at Sibos.
What the future of payments and cryptocurrencies will look like
Three key factors currently preclude cryptocurrency from gaining widespread payments acceptance.
How loan providers will be using blockchain
The concept of blockchain is still very alien to many.
Stripe lines up APIs for programmable payment cards
APIs rule for US mobile payments firm.
Switch brings voice tech to its CardSavr API
CardSavr will use natural language processing for managing cards on file.
Deutsche Bank debuts digital signatures for corporates
Accelerated account openings have arrived.
Swift unleashes gpi for corporates pilot
Corporates and banks to test a new multi-bank payments tracking solution.
Figure Eight dates Google Cloud for machine learning
Figure Eight will serve as the data launch partner for Google Cloud AutoML.
Fellow bankers: “ecosystem” is not a “safe word”
Ecosystems are buzzing living things for those who are part of them.
Credit Suisse unveils $261m fintech fund
Its NEXT Investors team will be looking for the next group of firms to invest in.
The rise of wealthtech
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are revolutionising wealthtech.
Digital Asset takes Google Cloud to blockchain
Google developers get access to tools and services for DLT dreams.
Socure unveils digital identity bot Aida
Named after the world’s first computer scientist, Ada Lovelace.
US personal finance app Even gets $40m funding
Second round of financing led by Khosla Ventures.
Blockchain network Nervos nervelessly nets $28m funding
Backed by investors Polychain Capital and Sequoia China.
We’re looking for inspiring people in fintech!
Nominate outstanding individuals for a Banking Technology Award
CFPB launches fintech sandbox in US
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to remove red tape.
Top fintech stories this week – 20 July 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
EY buys into blockchain for an Elevated Consciousness
Buys US start-up’s crypto-asset accounting and tax functions.
The infallible innovator: banking paradoxes for the age of disruption
The reality of corporate innovation is that experimentation is encouraged on condition of infallibility.
