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Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 30 August 2019
FinTech Futures and KAE, a strategic marketing consultancy firm, have teamed up to bring you short and sweet round-ups of the week’s selected news stories – in a video format. The latest weekly video covers: Apple Card launches AmEx, Citi and Goldman invest in digital mortgage startup Better.com JP Morgan to shut down Chase Pay […]
Top fintech stories this week – 30 August 2019
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Banking Technology Awards 2019: last working day to submit your entries!
No time to waste! Apply for this year’s Banking Technology Awards before it’s too late.
CardX raises $2m in debt financing
The fintech helps businesses avoid credit card transaction fees.
Carlsberg Bank – probably the best digital bank in the world
Banks need to identify new segments and go beyond banking
Temenos acquires Kony for $559m
The transaction is due to be completed by early Q4 2019.
PNC becomes first US bank on RippleNet
The bank joined the blockchain payments platform in September 2018.
Bad bosses and hardy flowers
Moving away from bad bosses is not good advice, it is essential advice.
Platform9 targets global growth with $25m funding
The firm helps companies run cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
Cybersecurity start-up Axonius closes $20m Series B
This was the firm’s second fundraise of the year.
Empaxis teams with InvestCloud to launch TAMP1
The platform is designed for small to medium-sized investment managers.
Ask the expert: your questions on growing the business answered
How to generate leads and reach the right decision-makers – refining your approach.
Wealthfront acquires robo advisor Grove
California-based, Wealthfront, is acquiring financial planning fintech Grove for an undisclosed sum
Is your fintech brand an awkward teenager?
From unpredictable growth spurts and occasional breakouts, to sleeping in.
Top fintech stories this week – 23 August 2019
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Wild West to crypto best: How compliance separates cowboys from champions
Major players will be forced into closer collaboration with regulators.
Tala raises $110m for expansion plans
PayPal Ventures also participated in the round.
Alterna Bank partners with nCino
The agreement marks nCino’s first Canadian credit union customer
Welsh Delio secures £3.3m equity round
Delio will expand into Asia, the Middle East and North America.
How regulations are bringing banks and fintechs together
There are plenty of benefits for both.
Top fintech stories this week – 16 August 2019
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
US neobank Zenus gets licence
Zenus will allow anyone in the world to open an account.
Secured cards: public relations ploy or financial health builder?
They can be a critical tool for financially vulnerable people.
Declaring time of death and other ways of surviving doing business with big banks
Don’t be afraid to declare time of death when it is true: it is not an admission of defeat.
Blade raises $4.3m from Coinbase
The crypto derivatives exchange is launching in three weeks.
Reshaping the banking experience
It’s time to stop looking at digital as the only key to client satisfaction.
Ask the expert: your questions on growing the business answered
When is the right time for a founder to take a step back from the business?
Turn to commercial banks for treasury management innovation
Commercial banks are taking up a starring role.
Monarch creates first recurring crypto payments system
The solution will enable the likes of Netflix and Hulu to accept crypto.
Banking Technology Awards introduces awards for tech vendors
Ovum Technology Innovation Awards are now open for entries!
FinMkt closes $5m Series B
It provides highly customisable tech for the online lending industry.
Top fintech stories this week – 9 August 2019
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
ScaleFactor closes $60m Series C funding round
The platform has since raised $100m in 12 months.
Fintech partnerships: the real benefit of Open Banking for incumbent banks
A deep dive into where the real value lies in Open Banking for incumbents.
Tesla-fy your bank
Will banks ever truly reinvent banking?
Getting to the future: learn, unlearn, persist. Repeat.
But unlearning is the only path to survival. Even if you can’t learn to like that, you learn to value it.
Banking Technology Awards 2019: become a sponsor
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Klarna bags $460m equity funding
It’s now the most valuable EU fintech with a valuation of $5.5 billion.
Libra cryptocurrency users face taxing problem
It is not clear how Facebook intend to solve this problem.
