BNP Paribas Fortis dreams up Didid app for savings
The app is virtually linked to users’ current and savings accounts.
Europe
Bulgaria’s Municipal Bank gets core and payments tech from Oracle
EXCLUSIVE. It is understood new tech will replace CSoft’s VCSBank.
UK pressures tech titans to face competition
The nation’s rules must be updated for the digital age.
Open Banking one year on
Information Builders looks at how the initiative opened up new opportunities with data.
Ukraine tops Science and Tech Global Index – that should come as no shock
Open and agile, Ukraine’s banking sector has been quick to embrace disruptive change.
BGL BNP Paribas offers digital wisdom via Genius AI
A “personalised and intelligent digital assistant” lands in Luxembourg.
UK’s Nationwide analyses customer interactions with SAS
AI will look at how emails are managed at the building society.
Tide seeks £60m funding following RBS grant
UK challenger bank also plans more funding rounds in next couple of years.
Hannover Re dives into insurance innovation
Hr | equarium is designed to help insurtechs break out in the industry.
Dutch SME lender Finturi raises €2m funding
The start-up uses blockchain and AI for its lendtech platform.
Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays team up for business banking hubs
The three banks will pilot the UK’s “first” shared hubs for SMEs.
Swiss crypto outfit Amun amasses $4m funding
“We are bullish on crypto in the long-term.”
UK’s OneSavings Bank and Charter Court mull merger
The new institution would be valued at more than £1.6 billion.
Deutsche Börse and Swisscom to build digital asset infrastructure
The core elements will provide access to liquidity and banking services.
Spanish fintech Pagantis closes €65m for e-commerce financing
It aims to expand its services to Portugal, Italy and France.
Lack of buyers puts an end to UK’s Raphaels Bank
One of the nation’s oldest banks is being wound down.
Salt Edge teams up with UK-based PFM app Emma
Integration will enable Emma users to connect their accounts from banks throughout the UK.
NatWest prepares biometric card pilot
The bank will trial fingerprint technology-enabled cards with Gemalto.
5AMLD: know your compliance changes
5AMLD’s key requirements and their impact on the customer due diligence and onboarding for European firms.
Starling Bank enters Moneyhub’s payment gateway
“The first challenger bank to support PSD2 PISP legislation.”
Irish insurtech hub brings feast in southeast
Institute of Technology Carlow powers up new centre for insurance start-ups.
UK crypto consumers completely clueless
FCA reveals findings from first cryptoassets research.
Bank of England orders Visa to fix outage issues
The bank’s action follows the pan-European incident in June 2018.
Europe’s dance of fintech hubs
As a strong and united ecosystem, the European fintech scene can finally discover its true potential.
UK fintech regulator puts bigger fines on the menu
FCA confirms increase in Financial Ombudsman Service award limit.
Bank Leumi touches Eurobase with Siena platform for FX treasury
The deal is only for the London-based subsidiary of the Israeli bank.
Ibanera signs for iSignthis banking and payment tech
iSignthis’ subsidiaries Probanx and BSS will provide CorePlus and CoreConnect systems.
Top fintech stories this week – 8 March 2019
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Soldo gets sold on Irish e-money licence
It will be able to operate from Ireland post-Brexit.
UK and Turkey push Islamic finance through fintech
TheCityUK and Borsa Istanbul set out their ambitions.
Commerzbank and Deutsche Börse complete DLT repo transaction
It involved the simultaneous swap of the tokens as a legally binding transaction.
HSBC launches PSD2 developer portal
Developers can test APIs for three services.
Blockchain outfit SETL files for bankruptcy
UK payment and settlement infrastructure provider calls in an administrator.
Nationwide revives 10x Future Technologies with £15m funding
Former Barclays CEO’s fintech firm gets boost after losing Virgin Money deal.
German savings marketplace Raisin acquires MHB Bank
Fintech buys bank. Yes, we worked that out thanks.
nCino lands new customers in Stockholm and Sydney
DBT Foretagslan and Thinktank are BOS-sing it.
Flexcube core banking system gains new takers in LatAm, Europe and Asia
Banco Votorantim in Brazil, Ghazanfar Bank in Afghanistan, Prince Bank in Cambodia, and FEDinvest in Albania.
PFS acquires Barclaycard prepaid card portfolio
Plans to offer an “enhanced” service to payroll and corporate clients.
Crypto boosted by Russia’s digital rights bill
The State Duma edges the nation towards cryptocurrency legislation.
Coinbase’s Neutrino acquisition caught in oppressive state
It got some Hacking Team staff via the deal. That didn’t work out too well.
