BBVA leads $12m funding in paytech Grabango
Busy bank shows more interest in invisible payments.
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Fintech firm WB21 caught in storm of allegations
The evidence keeps piling up and the firm stays silent.
USAA customers to get $12m back for payment errors
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau also fines bank $3.5 million.
White paper: Enabling information-driven financial services
Find out how to utilise data to increase revenue and reduce risk
Life’s a brag in BBVA’s digital dominion
Reaches “tipping point” as 50% of its customers now use digital channels.
Hispanic Christians find payments faith in Vivipay
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference is mightily impressed.
Fiserv fuels Mi Bank’s de novo launch
Michigan’s first de novo bank in a decade.
The Venn diagram of doom or how I make career choices
Your gut points you a certain way; your heart decides; then your head wraps some logic around it.
Top ten digital bank initiatives in 2018
There have been a lot of digital bank projects in 2018. Here are our favourites.
Top ten fintech start-up stories in 2018
New faces and great ambitions. Let the rockets reign in this top ten trip down memory lane.
Top ten banking tech case studies in 2018
Banks and FIs from around the world share their tech modernisation experiences.
Top ten fintech interviews in 2018
Over the course of 2018, we’ve interviewed a range of industry specialists on a variety of fintech subjects.
Top ten fintech infographics in 2018
Let the visuals take over in this cool collection of infographics.
Top ten blockchain stories in 2018
Bustling blockchain. A compilation of the year’s juiciest stories with this handy top ten.
Top ten Bitcoin stories in 2018
Bitcoin enjoyed another lively year. Catch up on the hottest stories.
Three Midwestern credit unions sign up for Fiserv’s DNA
The lucky three are Ideal Credit Union, TopLine Federal Credit Union and Dakota West Credit Union.
Top ten core banking system projects in 2018
Core banking software is back in fashion!
Financial services will look to collaboration and consolidation in 2019
Collaboration in banking; consolidation in the payments sector.
White paper: Delivering a great omnichannel banking experience with in-memory computing
Find a fast, simple omnichannel banking solution with GridGain’s in-memory computing platform.
Citi feeds on Feedzai for risk management
Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions to integrate transaction monitoring technology.
Technology without heart destroys us: the hard currency of bankers’ feelings
Technology without heart will take you nowhere, in the slowest and most expensive way possible.
Cybercriminal underground dangerously sound
McAfee Labs sees 20% increase in data breaches in financial sector.
The case for plugging nature into the economy
How can banks factor in extreme climate events and environmental disasters risks to improve their credit risk ratings?
Citi brings in biometrics for treasury platforms
Fingerprint and facial recognition now in for CitiDirect BE.
Banking Technology Awards 2018: and the winners are…
The Banking Technology Awards 2018 winners announced!
Robinhood steps back from checking and savings launch
Firm says there was “confusion” and now offers cash management instead.
FI.SPAN raises $4m for UK and Australia expansion
Financial services management platform has some extra holiday spending cash.
Can automation transform trade finance?
How automation could provide benefits for both bank and corporate clients.
UK banks capable of surviving a “no-deal” Brexit
However, a no-deal situation could leave the UK economy worse off than the 2008 recession.
AriseBank execs fined $2.5m over ICO scam
US Securities and Exchange Commission lays down the law yet again.
Western Union works with TerraPay for mobile mania
In the name of mobile wallet and bank account payouts.
Robinhood tucks into Galileo for US checking and savings launch
Payments processor powers trading app’s banking move.
Top fintech stories this week – 14 December 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Real-time payments: the next big thing in US banking
RTP promises to be the biggest change in US payments since the 1970s.
YayPay celebrates $8.4m funding for data science drive
Start-up seeks growth in cash-flow and receivables markets.
Accenture acquires select assets of financial software firm Zafin
Firm looking for more action in legacy IT world.
ShopKeep closes $65m for small business financing leap
Brings US firm’s total funding to just over $72 million.
Mitek stock price rises after ASG beefs up acquisition offer
It took issue with “opportunistic” nature of a proposal last month.
All this time, you’ve been doing meetings wrong
There are three types of meetings in the world.
Swift CEO calls time on seven “intense” years
Gottfried Leibbrandt will step down at the end of June 2019.
