A few weeks ago I was invited to speak at an event called Women Techmakers, an event held in Barcelona as part of a Google initiative to provide visibility, community, and resources for women in tech.

I’ve been illustrating my frustration with incumbent banks for some time, saying that they lack technology leadership.  Almost a third of my new book talks about the biggest challenge for banks to respond to Fintech, Big Data, Cloud, Blockchain and all those other issues is to have leadership.  Digital transformation is not a project run by a function, but a complete change of the bank.  You cannot change the bank without strong leadership and most are failing.  In fact, the only bank that’s really out there is BBVA, because their leader is a programmer by background.  Even they have proble

OpenLink, a major firm in trading and risk management solutions to the energy, commodities, corporate and financial services industries, has agreed upon a five year strategic partnership with Uniper, an energy provider company, for the provision of its risk management platform.

The mobile payments company Fortumo is launching Fortumo Insight, a payments intelligence platform for mobile operators.

Fortumo Insight helps mobile operators monitor their carrier billing performance and increase revenue from digital content.  

Today, loanDepot delivers consumers access to credit through purchase, refinance, personal, and home equity loans online and through eight nationwide customer-care supported tech-enabled business centers.

Xura is working alongside SpeechPro to pilot their biometric technology and offer enterprise customers, particularly those in the Financial Services Sector, the ability to provide secure facial recognition and voice authentication within a mobile app, alongside, and in combination with, traditional passwords.

An innovative new service is enabling Lloyds Bank and Halifax customers to speak with a mortgage advisor ‘face to face’ from the comfort of their own home via video link on a laptop, desktop, or tablet computer. The video service, which was successfully piloted for Lloyds customers throughout 2015, provides a convenient alternative for those who would otherwise be required to travel to a branch or speak to a mortgage advisor on the phone.

Reval, the leading global provider of a scalable cloud platform for treasury and risk management (TRM), was named Best Provider of SaaS Treasury Solutions and Best Treasury Analytics Provider in Global Finance magazine’s 2016 Best Treasury Manage

The Western Union Company (WU), a leader in global payments services, announced today that it will launch remittance services from across the world into Cuba following U.S. regulatory and policy changes that allow Cubans and non-Cubans to send remittances via Western Union to this island nation.

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Vibrant Credit Union, based in Moline, Illinois, has  completed its conversion to the DNA®  account processing platform and added several integrated solutions from Fiserv. Vibrant selected DNA to gain the advantages of an open, member-centered, core platform built on contemporary technology. The new platform enables Vibrant to deliver differentiated products and services and helps to create a distinct experience for its 41,000 members.