Experian has today announced a new partnership with Nationwide Building Society, the world’s largest building society.

The three year partnership will focus on supporting Nationwide’s risk management activities in the modelling of credit risk, capital adequacy and provisioning. 

This will include helping them deliver tailored credit decisions for good outcomes that are right for the specific circumstances of each customer.

Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A., a $24 billion regional bank, announced today that Webster Bank will open 14 banking centers in mid-January in the greater Boston area.

Courion, a leading intelligent Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions provider, announced today the acquisition of Core Security, a leader in the vulnerability management and attack intelligence space.

The world changes every day, and some of us feel it changes faster every day. This is evidenced by the rapid cycle change in Fintech where last year's hardly mentioned thing has become this year's hot thing. Blockchain is the case in point. However, as pointed out at Fintech Connect this week, most of this start-up furore is just diddly-squat when compared with the massive size of the incumbent financial industry.

 Borsa Istanbul and Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) have announced that Borsa Istanbul has officially gone live on nine of Nasdaq's market-leading technologies including trading and clea

Tinubu Square, a leader in credit risk software solutions, has announced the opening of a new office in Montreal, Canada. This development follows the expansion of Tinubu’s business in North America, which was recently augmented with the opening of an office in New York. The ‘on-the-ground’ presence of the company will help it to further expand its interests in North America.

 Gem, a leading blockchain platform provider, presents two new digital channels to connect, educate, and inform on distributed ledger technology.

 Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, was recently named Technology Provider of the Year at the 2015 Payments Awards. Now in its third year, the Payments Awards are organized by fintech publications FStech and Retail Systems to recognize cards and payments excellence and technology innovation over the past year. Fiserv was named the winner from among five other shortlisted companies.

SWIFT announces a global payments innovation initiative to dramatically improve the customer experience in correspondent banking by increasing the speed, transparency and predictability of cross-border payments.

Designed in collaboration with the industry, the initiative will initially focus on a business-to-business payments service supported by participating banks in early 2016.