Mastercard tackles faster payments in the UK, smart watches and open banking
Mastercard reaches out to Starling Bank, NXP, and prepares for open banking.
Europe
Money20/20 Europe: how to build a company that behaves
How financial services can be reimagined by an understanding of human behaviour.
Italy’s banks set up their blockchain front line
With the support of R3, NTT and SIA, Italy has made the move onto blockchain.
Virtual assistant Amelia to modernise customer service at BBVA
BBVA is using a virtual assistant for its customer service in Mexico.
Money20/20 Europe: key takeaways
The trends and key issues when the Money20/20 Europe circus rolled into Amsterdam this week.
Money20/20 Europe: GAFA and Grandhood day
Fraud fears, GAFA and other odds and ends from the Amsterdam event.
Banco BNI Europa in lendtech project with Alterest
Streamlining investment analytics and risk management between the bank and its credit originating partners.
Coya to stir the insurance industry with new influx of cash
Berlin-based insurtech firm Coya gets influx of cash.
Invesco takes over financial advisor platform Intelliflo
Invesco has acquired Intelliflo, a UK provider of advisor-focused digital solutions.
Money20/20 Europe: stop the crypto tribalism
Welcome to polarised missives and glorified databases at the Amsterdam event.
Signicat and Mitek join forces in digital onboarding drive
Signicat and Mitek team up to create a solution for Europe-based financial services providers.
Banking Technology June 2018 issue out now
A sublime eternal tune to the rhythms of fintech.
Commerzbank’s new loan model adjusts repayment based on capital usage
Commerzbank’s new lendtech solution has “pay-per-use loan” model at its core.
IBM to revamp Avaloq’s IT model in cloud capabilities transformation
IBM and Avaloq tackle cloud infrastructure in the Swiss market.
Money20/20 Europe: creating safe spaces – platforms and collaboration
The platformication of everything continues and large tech companies must be part of that process.
UniCredit invests €3.1m in Meniga
The biggest personal finance management (PFM) deal in Europe to date.
Free financial advice service Multiply secures £1.75m investment
Multiply is ready to take off spurred by £1.75m investment.
Lunar Way picks Humio for data visualisation
Humio will provide log management for fintech Lunar Way.
Cinnober sells majority stake in Irisium to KRM22
KRM22 buys a 60% stake in Irisium, a subsdiary of trading tech firm Cinnober, for £2.6m in cash.
Money 20/20 Europe: putting the AI in certainty
AI’s potential is discussed at the Amsterdam event.
Survey on payment methods 2017 – Swiss National Bank
Survey on payment behaviour and the use of cash in Switzerland.
BBVA joins Fintonic’s lending platform
Crossing PFM functionality with a full lending platform.
Hanseatic Bank signs for collectAI’s B2B2C white label tech
Hanseatic Bank among the first to deploy collectAI’s B2B2C white label solution.
ING pushes for open banking with SME financing platform and Yolt expansion
ING is leveraging open banking and making their SME and retail offer more attractive than ever across Europe
BPCE, Natixis and TransferWise team for affordable cross-border remittances
Transferwise enables cross-border remittances for BPCE’s subsidiaries.
Form3 teams with Arkéa Banking Services for SEPA real-time payments
The new service is “industry-first”, according to Form3.
Money20/20 Europe keynote: the age of invisible payments (and apology from Visa)
Innovation benefits the entire ecosystem, states Visa Europe’s CEO.
Paytech heavyweights Nets and Concardis to merge
Paytech firms Nets and Concardis will merge but retain their own brands.
Finovate in 2018: a search for fintech’s frontier
Where is the future of fintech?
Visa hit by payment outages across Europe
Update – 2 June – situation now resolved.
Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange softly launches
It’s a subsidiary of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange.
Robo-advisor Munnypot is so hot for Capita
Capita becomes a shareholder in UK robo-advice investment platform.
Orange and Google looking to fund fintech start-ups
Interested in IoT, cybersecurity, cloud and AI in EMEA.
UK start-up Tosca Money prepares to act
Social savings service powered by a digital token.
Top fintech stories this week – 1 June 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Five Nordic banks mull KYC joint venture
They are DNB, Danske, Nordea, Handelsbanken and SEB.
Intelligent Environments rebrands as ieDigital
The company has global ambitions and wants its brand to travel easily.
Infographic: high-cost credit – FCA findings and proposals
UK’s Financial Conduct Authority wants to protect people who use overdrafts and high-cost credit.
UK challenger bank Starling seeks £80m funding
Also ends its partnership with TransferWise.
Form3 and Mambu unveil real-time cloud payments
Will provide access to real-time payments processing in the UK and Europe.
