What the FinTech? | S.2 Episode 22 | Let’s talk about SaaS
Michel Breeuwer, general manager for the Benelux and Baltics at Mambu, joins us on this week’s episode of the What the FinTech? podcast.
Software-as-a-Service/SaaS
FinTech Futures Jobs: Three really great jobs to apply for this week
Exciting vacancies at OakNorth, Deloitte and Oracle. Apply today!
ICYMI funding round-up: Chip, Multiverse Computing, Kevin, APLYiD & more
Another collection of funding rounds and raises from all over the world you might have missed.
VoxSmart acquires speech recognition platform GreenKey
Firm aims to bolster its communications surveillance offering for financial institutions.
OracleFS exec questions staying power of new cloud-focused competition
Conor Colleary says banks must ask if their partner can embrace new changes.
Bahrain’s Bank ABC taps Fenergo for client management solution
Bank ABC operates across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia.
Regtech start-up PassFort lands $16.2m Series A funding round
PassFort intends to use the money to expand internationally.
DevOps platform Copado lands $140m funding
The firm plans to use the cash raised to expand its testing software.
Irwin secures $20m in Series A funding round led by K1
The investment will help further the fintech’s mission to upgrade the capital markets software offering.
Identity verification firm SentiLink lands $70m Series B funding
San Francisco-based firm plans to build out its product suite and expand its team.
Payments platform Dwolla secures $21m investment
Dwolla’s last venture funding round resulted in a $12 million raise in 2018.
Dear Luc: What’s the deal with embedded finance?
This week someone writes in to ask: how can I get on the embedded finance bandwagon?
Duco secures Nordic Capital investment to fuel expansion plans
The private equity firm will acquire a majority shareholding in the company.
LoanPro lands $100m Series A round led by FTV Capital
The Utah-based company says the funds will be used to further invest in growth
Canada’s League Data picks Mambu’s cloud banking platform
The cooperative company says Mambu was the “clear choice” to modernise its core platform.
KeyBank goes live on SmartStream’s cloud-based collateral management tech
The Cleveland bank aims to reduce infrastructure costs by moving to the cloud.
Morgan Stanley signs cloud partnership deal with Microsoft
Deal forms part of the US bank’s multi-cloud strategy.
Community bank-focused Synctera raises $33m in Series A round
Synctera aims to facilitate partnerships between community banks and fintechs.
Webinar: Fintech at SaaS speed – navigating the scale and security challenge
The latest trends and techniques in SaaS security and the importance of a successful app protection strategy.
Video: Infosys Finacle on adapting to business model innovation
We talk about how traditional banking models have become disrupted, and how consumer demands need new experiences
An era of digital trade
Technology creates opportunities to transform existing processes across global supply chains.
Banking-as-a-Service: who is it for?
BaaS goes well beyond classic outsourcing models like ITO and BPO.
Financial services are internet-reliant, so how do you prevent downtime?
Digital experience monitoring provides a bridge so that financial institutions can embrace this new digital-first era.
Banking’s long road to BaaS
The opportunity for BaaS is huge and compelling, but the journey to get there is long and complex.
Three things banks must do to thrive in 2021
It is the banks who invest now and execute effectively, that will come out on top.
NCR acquires digital onboarding start-up Terafina
Terafina marks NCR’s third acquisition this year.
The end to end benefits of cloud first transformation
Cloud has become a go-to technology for many in the financial services industry.
CODE Credit Union implements Symitar’s Episys with MDT
The conversion occurred entirely virtually.
IBM buys Canadian fintech Expertus to bolster payments offerings
The acquisition strengthens its portfolio as an end-to-end digital payments solution provider.
Omdia Universe 2020-21: Temenos recognised as a leader for digital banking platforms
Based on Temenos’ combination of market impact, solution capabilities, and customer experience.
Credit Suisse’s Canadian arm goes live with London fintech Torstone
“The opportunity to reduce our total cost of ownership was a key driver,” says bank.
Destination public cloud
It is estimated that global public cloud revenues will grow by about 17% this year.
The Oracle versus Google copyright case could shape the future of software
The fate of open APIs lies in the hands of the US Supreme Court.
Banking Technology September 2020 issue out now
Tipping point: Google vs Oracle showdown.
Cloud: the new frontier in banking
Demystifying the move to the cloud is the first step to becoming more agile.
Palantir lost $579m in 2019 according to leaked S-1 filing
Big data SaaS firm had net loss percentage of 78% last year.
Standard Chartered signs multi-year cloud deal with Microsoft
The bank is shifting a series of systems to the cloud by 2025.
Streamlining manual processes amid COVID-19
Find out how to digitise manual documentation processes with Foxit Software.
HSBC signs multi-year cloud deal with AWS
Amazon Web Services is to become a “long-term strategic partner” for HSBC.
Why there’s no slowdown in SaaS
How SaaS reconciliation tech can help banks to properly process and control mission-critical transactional, operational and reference data.
