Banking Tech Awards 2020 winners unveiled!
Watch Tom Ward perform his stand-up and unveil the winning projects, companies and people of Banking Tech Awards 2020.
FinTech
Connect bank operations from front to back
Improve efficiency and compliance while simultaneously lowering costs and risks.
Mozper lands $3.55m to launch kid debit card in Mexico
In August, Mozper – with the help of partner Visa – launched its closed beta with 500 families.
Banking Technology December 2020 / January 2021 issue out now
Ready to take 2021 by the horns.
The time is now to update your finance operations
Modernising the finance department should be a priority.
Ask the expert: what’s the “partnership problem” – and how do I solve it?
Alongside raising investment, securing the right partnerships is critical for business survival.
The Fintech Review: 2020
We cover embedded finance, competition, open banking, and CBDCs.
New York-based Synechron buys Australian payments firm Attra
Attra and Synechron will have a combined workforce of 10,000 employees and annual revenue of $650m.
Thoma Bravo investment takes identity start-up Venafi to unicorn status
Thoma Bravo are investing right at time, says Venafi CEO.
Financial assistant app Cleo raises $44 million
Cleo has four million Gen-Z and millennial users; and recorded a 400% revenue growth in the last year.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 11 December 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Don’t turn a blind eye to spreadsheet vulnerabilities
Introducing PrizmDoc Cells, a secure solution in an intuitive, Excel-like web interface.
Challenger for teens Step raises $50m in Series B
Among new investors are Charli D’Amelio, Justin Timberlake, Eli Manning, and Mantis VC.
Market infrastructure firm Pico raises $135m in Series C
Intel Capital leads the latest round for network company.
Former Uber Money head bags $12.4m for new venture Synctera
The start-up hopes to speed up go-to-market times.
The perennial BNPL crown
Blind allegiance has seen the BNPL sector explode in 2020.
The times are always a’changing
The story we try to reconstruct and the story we tell ourselves isn’t the full story.
Comarch launches new factoring system
Comarch Cloud Factoring enables managing the entire lifecycle of an invoice with no paperwork involved.
JPMorgan snaps up tax automation fintech 55ip
“Advisors are increasingly seeking intelligent, automated tools,” says bank.
VMware exec: AI’s two Achilles’ heels keep me up at night
69% of enterprise executives think AI is “essential” for responding to cyber threats.
Solving payments and card challenges with a platform approach
A platform approach improves efficiency and customer trust.
E-book: Migration to cloud – your guide to delivering an intuitive customer experience
Learn how to transform the entire organisation with the migration to the cloud.
White paper: Re-wiring financial services operations for a bold future
Looking beyond the front office to transform experiences.
Innovations – moonshot thinking and the art of walking the Earth
In wealth management, innovations need challengers, ambitious goals… and patience.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 04 December 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Stripe launches BaaS-type service for merchants with top US banks
“[The] banking experience should be as easy as spinning up a virtual server.”
FinTech Futures Jobs: the fintech job market is absolutely booming
The global fintech market is predicted to grow at an annual rate of almost 25% – exciting times for jobseekers!
Web Summit 2020: A fintech summary
Stripe is looking at products around digital identity.
Libra and Facebook exec joins rental insurtech LeaseLock
The fintech removes the need for renters to pay a deposit for a rental property.
African American Credit Union Coalition signs partnership with Fiserv
Fiserv to identify research and technology needs of AACUC members.
Say it to my face
It’s impossible to give feedback that isn’t evaluative; and equally hard to give feedback that isn’t prescriptive.
AI will explain it to you
Explainable AI removes removes the last barrier in entrusting transaction monitoring to algorithms.
Douugh partners with Humm Group to launch US-based BNPL product
Australian neobank plans “Credit Jar” to help users build their credit scores.
What the Fintech? Episode 17 | The spirit is willing, but the markets are weak
This episode of WTF? podcast features Vinoth Jayakumar, partner at VC firm Draper Esprit.
Stripe chases $100bn valuation with no sign of IPO
Stripe could see its valuation quadruple in just two years.
S&P Global could buy IHS Markit for $44bn
S&P Global’s shares have risen 25% in New York this year alone.
Banking Tech Awards 2020 hosted online by Tom Ward
Join comedian Tom Ward for the 2020 Banking Tech Awards. Broadcast online on 10 Dec, 3:30pm GMT and is free to attend.
Facebook’s Libra could launch as early as January 2021
Novi’s digital wallet is “ready from a product perspective”.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 27 November 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Credit Karma secures $7.1bn Intuit acquisition, sells tax ops to Square
Square enjoyed a 4% jump in stock market value following the announcement.
