Clinc, the creators of the most sophisticated, conversational, natural language AI in the world, today announced that OCBC Bank, the oldest Singapore bank and the second-largest financial services group in Southeast Asia, has launched a voice-enabled mobile banking assistant powered by Clinc to all OCBC Bank customers. This assistant is the first of its kind in Singapore.

Tassat, a global provider of financial technologies and products for traditional and digital asset markets, has partnered with AlgoTrader to provide institutional clients with its automated, quantitative trading software including direct access to Tassat’s cryptocurrency derivatives to be offered soon on a regulated exchange. 

Konsentus and Hampden & Co announced today that Hampden & Co has selected leading RegTech provider Konsentus to support the roll-out of their offering to implement the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) for their Private Banking clients.

PSD2 is an industry-wide programme enabling banking clients to better harness the value of their transactional banking data. Konsentus’ regulatory and identity checking solution will be integrated into Hampden & Co.’s digital banking platform to ensure access is only given to fully authorised and regulated third parties.

Avaloq, a global fintech leader, has launched a unique data analytics solution for banks and wealth managers to quickly gain transparency on the impact of bespoke pricing for individual clients, thus supporting financial institutions to improve the overall client experience. At the same time, it allows financial institutions to better design and control revenues. The new Cost & Fee Analytics solution complements and extends Avaloq’s established Cost & Fee suite.

Financial IT speaks to Daniel Seal, Founder & CEO at Unbound.  

Daniel is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of Unbound which bridges the gap between entrepreneurs, corporate business and governments to fuel a digital future. Daniel is a mentor & advisor to several leading startup accelerators around the world including - Plug & Play, Start Up Stadium Taiwan & H Farm.

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Financial crime and compliance software firm TruNarrative has strengthened its executive-level management team with the appointment of a new chief operating officer, to support the organisation’s growth.

Having previously spent 11 years at major UK online retailer N Brown Group, as the company’s director of financial services, Stuart Daniels brings with him high-level expertise in risk, operations and analytics.

Fnality International (Fnality), the company building the means of payments on-chain for tomorrow’s financial markets utilising the Utility Settlement Coin (USC), is pleased to announce that Mizuho Bank, the core group company of Mizuho Financial Group, one of the largest financial services group in Japan, has joined the original group of 14 founding shareholders working to deliver the collective goal to transform clearing and settlement processes, and support gl

Gresham Technologies plc, the leading software and services company that specialises in providing real-time solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, payments and cash management, today announced Clareti Integration Studio (CIS) is available with new features designed to accelerate digital transformation projects.

 AfricaCom is synonymous with the coming together of great minds, the generation of new ideas and the showcasing of innovation.  This year, AfricaCom goes one step further to ensuring the progression of the African continent towards a digital democracy with the support of a number of causes that will focus on providing the space, skills and access to the Internet to make it all possible.

Mambu, the leading SaaS banking engine, today announced that it is powering bob Finance, helping the Swiss online lender achieve its long-term strategic objectives. bob Finance, a subsidiary of Valora Schweiz AG, chose Mambu’s cloud-native engine for its high scalability and quick time to market, aspects pivotal to the lender’s growth plans.