The PSD2 API of Habib Bank AG Zurich went live on 13 September. This API is developed by Salt Edge for Habib Bank AG Zurich to enable new open banking capabilities and provide full PSD2 compliance.

While banking product portfolios tend to become similar, banks must select between 2 most popular strategies (or combine them): to compete in pricing or to focus on customer experience improvement. 

If you prefer the first strategy, you may skip this article. Here we are going to accentuate engaging and personalized customer experience (CX) in the context of digital customer onboarding for banking customers. Also, we will guide you through the traditional perception of onboarding in banks and suggest extending the concept.

Santander InnoVentures is leading a €35 million funding round in pan-European digital debt marketplace CrossLend.

Sberbank and Microsoft Research are teaming up to study how AI can be used to train robots to interact with physical objects in order to boost coin counting productivity.

Indian mobile payment giant Paytm is looking to raise $2 billion at a $15 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times.

Not a day goes by without a headline on cryptocurrency, distributed ledger and blockchain initiatives. This technology has undisputable potential and Mastercard, in line with our history of leaning into emerging tech to advance cash displacement and financial inclusion, has been working on blockchain related use cases for several years.

 Baker Hill, a leading financial technology provider, delivering solutions for common loan origination, risk and relationship management, CECL, and smart data analytics, announced that Lafayette, La.-based Home Bank has renewed its relationship with Baker Hill, including the addition of Baker Hill NextGen® CECL and Baker Hill NextGen® Business Loan Origination, to increase productivity and efficiency in the lending process and deliver an exceptional digital experience to clients.

EBANX, a payments fintech company headquartered in Brazil that connects global businesses to Latin American consumers, has raised a significant follow-on investment from FTV Capital, a US-based growth equity investment firm. The investment contributed to making the fintech company the newest unicorn of Latin America. 

The cryptocurrency platform StormGain, the official sponsor of the Newcastle United Football Club, has launched a trading signal service for its registered clients.

Trading signals do not require special skills and are available to all StormGain traders. Simply open the “Markets” section in the StormGain application and select the appropriate cryptocurrency for trading.