Pini Yakuel, CEO of Optimove, discusses the importance of traditional banks embracing personalised customer marketing strategies to ensure they remain competitive.

NatWest and G4S are working together to pilot the UK’s first intelligent cash management solution for businesses later this year. This innovative and secure cash solution enables businesses to benefit from automated account crediting of its cash transactions without having to deposit that day’s takings in their local branch.

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, and Techstars, a worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, have come together to spur the next generation of disruption in the fintech sector with a focus on payments and seamless global money transfer. Over the next three years, Western Union will work with Techstars to run a mentorship-driven accelerator program and provide seed funding for startups out of its new Denver-based headquarters.

Barclays has hired James Binns and Robin Terry into senior roles in its Transaction Banking business, in a move to boost its Corporate Banking operations in the UK, across Europe and globally.

Who are you, and can you prove it? The new Gemalto Trust ID Network enables users to give digital service providers fully verified and secured answers to these simple yet critical questions. By creating and managing their own 'Self-Sovereign' Digital ​ID, users can enroll with a host of different digital banking, eCommerce and eGovernment services, without having to go through repeated due diligence processes  for each of them.

Sageworks, a financial information company that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, today announced the rollout of Sageworks Insights. This tool will enable institutions to make informed decisions by organizing and presenting more data for analysis and modeling. Sageworks Insights is the newest addition to the Portfolio Analytics suite, joining the company’s Stress Testing and Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) solutions.

EquiLend, a leading provider of trading, post-trade, market data and clearing services for the securities finance industry, today announces the opening of its office in Dublin to serve European clients following Brexit.

EquiLend’s new office—at South Point, Harmony Row, Dublin, D2—is the headquarters of EquiLend Limited, the firm’s Irish entity. 

Crown Agents Bank has appointed Susanne Chishti to its board as a non-executive director. Chishti brings more than 20 years of financial expertise, board-level experience focused on organisational governance, and a strong understanding of the small and medium size enterprise market. Her experience draws on 14 years in banking, with senior positions held at Morgan Stanley, Lloyds Banking Group and Deutsche Bank.