Alt credit scorer Aire heads to $11m funding
Takes the company’s total funding to $23 million.
Europe
Is 2019 the year Open Banking comes to life?
What providers can do to ensure its success.
Infographic: the Italian payment landscape
How do Italian people pay for their purchases these days?
Nordic banks’ payments platform preps for pilot launch
Called Project 27, the banks want platform to become a legal entity this year.
HSBC, ANZ and Goldman Sachs back Bud’s $20m funding
UK-based personal finance firm backed up by big name buddies.
Starling Bank preps for Irish licence with euro accounts
CEO is in Ireland today and UK challenger bank is also gearing up for Brexit.
Goldman Sachs and Amex join Better Mortgage’s $70m funding round
US-based digital lender plans partnerships and recruitment.
Italian insurtech Yolo gets €5m with Intesa Sanpaolo backing
The firm just closed its Series A and is looking abroad.
Euronext takes on Nasdaq with $737m Oslo Stock Exchange offer
Makes lower bid but says it has support from majority of Oslo Bors shareholders.
Suits Me sir! HooYu brings verification to banking start-up
Have you thought of a colour, sir? We have some excellent Blue Serge.
MiFID II’s unbundling mandate puts data front and centre for traders
A year on, MiFID II is changing the way buy-side firms acquire and produce investment research.
CYBG banking shifts up a gear with Red Hat
UK bank unites digital operations on OpenShift container platform.
Licence lust lets Lithuania’s fintech sector soar
Sector expanded by 45% in 2018 as Google and Revolut were awarded licences.
Bayerische Landesbank picks Profidata for custodian services
German bank will use the software Xentis.
UK’s Metro Bank hit by SS7 attack
Known telecommunications vulnerability exploited to target bank accounts.
Bison app attracts crypto trading hunters
Powered by Börse Stuttgart and designed for buying and selling.
Nixon knocks PSR job on the head
MD to leave the UK’s Payment Systems Regulator in April.
TSB hit by £105m loss after IT woes
“Last year was TSB’s most challenging year.”
WorldFirst closes US operations to save Ant Financial deal
UK currency exchange doesn’t want the acquisition derailed by regulators.
All Raiffeisen banks in Switzerland finally live on Avaloq
Core banking project was delayed, but 900 sites are now up and running.
Mambu wins Orange Bank core system deal in Spain
EXCLUSIVE. It may come with a win in Eastern Europe too.
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Superstructures: fintech reaches new heights.
Swiss lendtech Loanboox secures €20m funding
Money and capital market platform now valued at €110 million.
Nviso offers no hiding face with new biometric tech
Facial recognition solution “reveals how people really feel about money”.
School’s in with NatWest data academy
UK bank aims to train 1,000 workers in its first year.
Portuguese Banco CTT gets AML tech from Fiserv
One of the nation’s newest banks will use AML Risk Manager.
Amex throws Curve a curveball
American Express blocks customers from adding Amex cards to Curve.
Nasdaq outbids Euronext with $770m offer for Oslo Stock Exchange
Euronext had made a bid of $713 million.
Silver-tongued Argenta launches conversational banking
Belgian bank teams with message mavens Sparkcentral and Smooch to make it happen.
Santander Spain and Raisin in open banking duet
Life is a dream. For banks and fintechs.
First Data joins AIB in €100m bid for Payzone
Duo targeting Dublin-based payments firm.
Anti-financial crime firm Mimiro raises $30m
Mimiro’s machine learning platform analyses the risk of financial crime.
Envestors entices start-ups with crowdfunding control
UK firm launches standalone equity crowdfunding platform.
Personal finance app Fintify gets FCA approval
Can now operate as a registered account information service provider.
Cross River and Railsbank create transatlantic API action
Banking on both sides of the Atlantic through a single API.
Revolut meets its perfect ClauseMatch
The fintech is upping its regulatory game.
Revolut locks in on banking and trading licences
CEO unveils his cunning plan to build a global licensing team.
Monzo prepares digital receipts with Flux
As the challenger finds fintech partners for its marketplace.
ACI Worldwide to power Hungarian real-time payments
For a total of 17 banks so far.
