COVID-19 Driving an Acceleration in Adoption of Identity Verification
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Covid-19, Digital Identity
Businesses in the UK and U.S. have been ramping up their identity verification processes in order to protect customers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
INSTANDA Taps Into Insurance Marketplace in Africa
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Insurtech
INSTANDA, the leading customer and policy management platform for the insurance industry, has successfully launched its first African insurance market product on its platform with newly-onboarded client, Standard Bank South Africa. INSTANDA has worked closely with Standard Bank Insurance to enable them to launch a new commercial cyber insurance product. After just one week of training, Standard Bank Insurance started working on the product...
VR and Investment – An Exciting Sub-category of Fintech
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Investment
There are many different arms of fintech being developed specifically for businesses and investment companies, but virtual reality is something that has existed for a while in different formats, and is being adopted into the investment space through innovate software. Interested to find out more? Here’s some key information about virtual reality currently, and how it ties in successfully with the property investment world. Origins of VR
New Year, No More for One in Five Online Retailers if They Fail This Festive Period
- 4 years 10 months ago
- E-Commerce, Payments
Despite this festive period promising to be the most online ever, fears of failure threaten a fifth (21%) of online retailers. A new study from London-based online payment company, Checkout.com, shows one in five (19%) online merchants don’t think their e-commerce offering will cope with this year’s online festive sales rush, rising to 22% for smaller retailers*.
Red Hat Accelerates Hybrid Cloud Automation with Catalog of Ready-to-Use, Certified and Supported Ansible Automation
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Cloud
Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced several upgrades to its enterprise automation platform, including the latest version of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with new Red Hat Certified Ansible Content Collections, automation services catalog and private Automation Hub.
Advapay and Sumsub to Deliver an Automatic KYC/AML Solution to Financial Service Clients
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Security, Authentication Technology
Advapay, a digital core banking platform for fintechs, and Sumsub, an identity verification platform that covers KYC/KYB/AML needs, have partnered to deliver a smart KYC and AML solution to digital banks and fintechs.
Kneip Appoints Nick Yeates as CFO
- 4 years 10 months ago
- People Moves
Kneip, a global leader in fund data management, is today announcing that it has appointed Nick Yeates as Chief Financial Officer. Kneip has ambitious plans to grow globally. To achieve this, Kneip is making significant hires in key areas, with Enrique Sacau appointed as CEO in July and now Nick Yeates as CFO.
Objectway at #77 in the 2020 IDC Fintech Rankings
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Asset Management, Wealth Management
Objectway, a leader in the Digital Wealth & Asset Management software, announced they have ranked #77 on the 2020 IDC FinTech Rankings. This is the sixth consecutive year Objectway have appeared on this prestigious list. The Fortune 500-style annual ranking categorises and evaluates the top global providers of financial technology based on 2019 calendar year revenues from financial institutions.
additiv scales up with new European Headquarters in Frankfurt to support regional growth
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Wealth Management
additiv, a leading SaaS provider to the wealth management industry, today announced that it has expanded its range of operational locations to include a new Euro-pean head office in Frankfurt, Germany. With offices already established in Singapore, Dubai, Nairobi, Bucharest and headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, the office will be primarily focused on European customers supporting additiv’s growing customer base within the region.
Real-Time Payments Industry to Witness Double Digits Growth in the Next Five Years – Mindgate Solutions
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Real-time payments is the new global buzzword for the end customers today. RTP is gaining ground, driven by consumer demand for speed and convenience. With a global footprint, Mindgate Solutions has been at the helm of these exciting developments & currently processes over one billion RTP transactions per month. With the objective of sharing this domain expertise – Mindgate Solutions recently organized a roundtable session at SIBOS 2020.
Spendesk Adds $18M to its Series B Round from Eight Roads Ventures
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Investment
Spendesk, the leading spend management platform for SMBs, today announced it has raised $18 million in addition to its Series B round last year ($38 million). The new investment comes from global VC fund Eight Roads Ventures and brings the total raised to $68.5 million. This funding will support the strong growth Spendesk has realised despite the current pandemic, which has accelerated digitisation of finance departments and increased the demand...
ClientPay Offers Enhanced Payment Security Features to Reduce Risk and Improve Compliance for Professional Services Firms
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
ClientPay (clientpay.com), an award-wining digital payment acceptance solution for legal and professional services firms, has announced enhanced security features designed to help firms operate more securely, with reduced liability and lower PCI scope. These features include a Request Payment Method solution and Multi-Factor Authentication.
Britannia Global Markets selects Broadridge for International Post-Trade Securities Operations
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Trading Systems
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, today announced that Britannia Global Markets, a bespoke, all-encompassing brokerage house and subsidiary of Britannia Financial Group, has selected Broadridge to streamline its post-trade processing for its international s
EMVCo Launches Evaluation Programme to Support Contactless Payment Acceptance on Consumer Mobile Devices
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Technical body EMVCo has launched a pilot testing programme to evaluate consumer mobile devices for contactless payment acceptance. The Early Adopter Programme is open to vendors for functional evaluation of smartphones and tablets that can be used by merchants to take payments, without the need for ad
COVID-19 Has Forced More Than Three-quarters of Banks to Change Their Future Banking Strategy
- 4 years 10 months ago
- Covid-19, Banking
Marqeta, the global modern card issuing platform, today released a report that examines how banks intend to change their strategies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the findings, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on almost all (96%) European banks, with over three-quarters (78%) planning to change their future banking strategy to adapt to changes in consumer behaviour, such as the accelerated adoption of digital banking...
